List of basketball players

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This is a list of characters that play basketball at some point.

Introduced in the 1920s[edit | edit source]

  • Mickey, Minnie, and Pete (Disney characters; they play basketball in the GBA and GCN game Disney Sports Basketball)

Introduced in the 1930s[edit | edit source]

  • Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat, Elmer Fudd, and Granny (Looney Tunes; with the exception of Granny, they play basketball in the SNES game Looney Tunes B-Ball, as well as the film Space Jam; they all play, including Granny, in Space Jam: A New Legacy; Bugs Bunny also plays in a 1992 Nike ad with Michael Jordan)
  • Donald Duck, Goofy, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Mortimer Mouse, and Big Bad Wolf (Disney characters; they play basketball in the GBA and GCN game Disney Sports Basketball; several basketball players are versions of Goofy in the 1946 short Double Dribble; Donald also plays basketball in the 1959 short Donald in Mathmagic Land)

Introduced in the 1940s[edit | edit source]

  • Daisy Duck and José Carioca (Disney characters; they play basketball in the GBA and GCN game Disney Sports Basketball)
  • Looney Tunes:
    • Barnyard Dawg and Beaky Buzzard (they play basketball in the film Space Jam: A New Legacy)
    • Marvin the Martian (he plays basketball in the SNES game Looney Tunes B-Ball)
    • Road Runner, Tweety, and Foghorn Leghorn (they play basketball in the films Space Jam and Space Jam: A New Legacy)
    • Wile E. Coyote and Yosemite Sam (they play basketball in the SNES game Looney Tunes B-Ball, as well as the films Space Jam and Space Jam: A New Legacy)

Introduced in the 1950s[edit | edit source]

  • Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes; he plays basketball in the SNES game Looney Tunes B-Ball, as well as the films Space Jam and Space Jam: A New Legacy)

Introduced in the 1990s[edit | edit source]

  • Buddy (Air Bud)
  • Hanamichi Sakuragi, Takenori Akagi, Kiminobu Kogure, Hisashi Mitsui, Ryota Miyagi, Kaede Rukawa, Yasuharu Yasuda, Toki Kuwata, Satoru Kakuta, Tetsushi Shiozaki, Satoro Sasaoka, and Kentarou Iishi (Slam Dunk)
  • Lola Bunny; Michael Jordan, Bill Murray, and Larry Bird as fictional versions of themselves; Stan Podolak; Pound, Bang, Bupkus, Blanko, and Nawt (Looney Tunes; they play basketball in Space Jam, and Lola plays again in Space Jam: A New Legacy)
  • Max Goof (Disney character; he plays basketball in the GBA and GCN game Disney Sports Basketball)
  • Utena Tenjou (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Introduced in the 2000s[edit | edit source]

  • Destiny Hero - Dunker (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
  • Foul Larry, Jordan Michaels, and Wilt (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends)
  • Patience Phillips / Catwoman and Tom Lone (Catwoman film)
  • Zack Martin (The Suite Life of Zack & Cody)

Introduced in the 2010s[edit | edit source]

  • Jonathan Pangborn (Doctor Strange film)
  • U.A. Dreadnought Dunker and U.A. Rival Rebounder (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Introduced in the 2020s[edit | edit source]

  • LeBron James as a fictional version of himself, Dominic "Dom" James, Al-G Rhythm, Brow, Chronos, Wet-Fire, Archneka, and White Mamba (Space Jam: A New Legacy)