GF22
Last year

Aussie NBA Careers - ranked

Given the recent posts on the All-time best Boomers team it got me thinking who is the best Aussie NBA player in terms of their overall career, not necessarily talent.
Clearly Luc with 3 rings is up there, Patty with his longevity, Ben with his awards and $, Bogut being #1 pick and Joe being Joe.
Also clearly some players are very early in their careers and likely will end up much higher, eg Giddey
But as of today here is my ranking and interested in comments
(exc Matisse and Kyrie)

Ranking Player Games
1 Joe Ingles 636 Active
2 Patty Mills 860 Active
3 Andrew Bogut 706
4 Luc Longley 567
5 Ben Simmons 317 Active
6 Aron Baynes 522
7 Josh Giddey 130 Active
8 M Dellavedova 479 Active
9 Josh Green 166 Active
10 Dante Exum 245
11 Thon Maker 263
12 Jock Landale 123 Active
13 David Anderson 103
14 Dyson Daniels 59 Active
15 Chris Anstey 155

Not so much
16 Ryan Broekhoff 59
17 Jonah Bolden 51
18 Shane Heal 49
19 Nathan Jawai 45
20 Darnell Mee 40
21 Mark Bradtke 36
22 C Bairstow 36
23 Lanard Copeland 33
24 Andrew Gaze 26
25 Luke Schenscher 31
26 Deng Adel 19
27 Jack White 17 Active
28 Xavier Cooks 10 Active
29 Mitch Creek 5
30 Isaac Humphries 5
31 M Mathiang 4
32 Ricky Grace 3
33 Will Magnay 1
Matisse Thybulle Excluded
Kyrie Irving Excluded

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Sebastian  
Last year

Longley clearly #1

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AntAntAnt  
Last year

Why exactly is Thybulle excluded?

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GF22  
Last year

Excluded Americans - suppose could have excluded Grace, Mee and Copeland but they at least lived in Australia and played NBL.
I know one could argue that NBA rings is the ultimate decider on a career in the NBA but does that make Baynes career better than Ingles.
Really just interested in other posters perspective - no claim to being right :)

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hoopie  
Last year

Longley #1, but only because Bogut was injured so badly that it screwed up the rest of his career

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Perthworld  
Last year

As it's list season around here I'll put another one out there for discussion.

Best Aussie performance in an NBA Finals?

Options:

Longley
Gaze (no minutes)
Baynes
Mills
Bogut
Dellavedova

I choose Delly (2015) in a losing effort, dude put everything on the line.

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LV  
Last year

Bogut
Mills
Longley
Ingles
Baynes
Delly
Simmons
Giddey

After that the drop off is significant

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LV  
Last year

Bogut #1 due to Highest ceiling (except maybe Simmons) best was All-Star/All defense level

Australia has produced many quality role players who played many years in NBA and won title/s (Mills,Longley, Baynes, Delly) or played in good teams (Ingles). Plus a couple of others who were All-Star level or approaching (Simmons, Giddey).

And the future looks bright with Giddey, Thybulle, Green, Landale, Daniels hopefully having long careers ahead. Maybe even White and Cooks too.



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BigFishLittlePond  
Last year

Some Kevin Brooks will do

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proud  
Last year

I think best of lists need to be judged on personal 'how much were they depended on and how much did they deliver'.

I’d certainly have Ingles and Bogut ahead of Longly as it feels like so many others could do the job that Luc did and they’d still succeed but Ingles improved his 3point shooting to lead the league (or close enough), defended the best player and did some ball handling which truly added to his value and I think he’s elite. Bogut definitely suffered from his injuries but his elite passing from the post/top of the key and defending and anchoring the defense has him as our best I think.

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Pat Bev  
Last year

5 Ben Simmons 317 Active

Really??!!! Active? haha

Could have been number one on this list! Such a shame!

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Art Pepper  
Last year

Giddey is already the best. In 5 years he will be first team all NBA.

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hoopie  
Last year

Yeah ... nah.

Bogut and Longley were amongst the best at their position. Much as I love Giddey, he won't be.

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