NBA oKay Players

Khris played for nine NBA teams over 13 years. He had career highs in six categories (games started, minutes played, rebounds, steals, blocks, and points per game) in the season (2010/11) he got married (and divorced) to (and from) Kim Kardashian.

Kawhi won the 2019 Finals MVP with the Toronto Raptors and then signed (as a free agent) the next season with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Kenny was chosen at #2 by the New Jersey Nets, after the selection of Larry Johnson at #1 by the Charlotte Hornets.

Jeff and Moses Malone were teammates on the Washington Bullets from 1986 to 1988.

K.A.T. was the #1 overall pick of the 2015 NBA draft, by the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Bill Murray starred as Phil Connors in the 1992 movie "Groundhog Day". Keegan is young and has already made a name for himself by making the NBA All-Rookie First team for 2023.

When Kevin McHale was the VP of Basketball Operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves, he selected Kevin Garnett with the 5th overall pick in 1995. In 2007, he traded Kevin Garnett to the Celtics and they won their 17th NBA title in 2008.

Kelly Olynyk, who went to high school in Kamloops, BC, Canada (near the west coast), played for the east coast team Miami Heat during the pandemic affected season of 2019/20.

Kelvin was the runner-up (by just one vote) to earn Rookie Of The Year for the 1980/81 season. It went to Darrell Griffith instead.

"Walker, Texas Ranger" (the TV show) ran for nine seasons... while Kemba Walker finally made it to a Texas NBA team (the Dallas Mavericks) where he played for nine games, before heading to France to play for Monaco.

Kendall Gill was traded, in 1996, along with another K player (Khalid Reeves) from the Charlotte Hornets to the New Jersey Nets for another K player (Kenny Anderson).

Keith was selected by the New Jersey Nets in 1997, just behind the #1 pick of Tim Duncan (who scored over 25,000 points and had over 15,000 rebounds and over 3,000 blocks... all with the same team (San Antonio Spurs).

"Big Country" Bryant Reeves came down from a rebound at the end of the first half of Jason Kidd's first game (December 28, 1996) as a Phoenix Sun, sending Jason to the injured list.

Kevin was selected to the 1989 and the 1991 NBA All Star Western Conference teams, yet it was in 1990 and 1992 that he played in the NBA Finals, first losing to the Detroit Pistons, then to the Chicago Bulls.

There were actually seven players (not just five) that made up the 2012 NBA All-Rookie First Team. Klay Thompson and Kawhi Leonard tied for one of the guard positions and Iman Shumpert and Brandon Knight tied for the other guard position.

Kent played with Isiah Thomas and the Detroit Pistons as well as with John Stockton and Karl Malone and the Utah Jazz during the 1980s. He won an NCAA championship with the Indiana Hoosiers in 1976.

Kentavious has not yet (as of March 2024) earned any other NBA accolades... but I'm almost certain he'd rather have his two rings over any other NBA recognition.

Kenyon made one NBA All Star game team, during his last season as a New Jersey Nets player, in 2004.

Kevin was a part of the Cavaliers' big three (as a 3-point shooter and rebounder) for the first three matchups against the Golden State Warriors, before Kyrie Irving decided to head to Boston to try to lead a team to glory.

The 1980 NBA All Star game was played in Landover, Maryland... just a couple dozen miles from Washington, D.C.

Kerry, along with Keith (Van Horn) and Kenyon (Martin) were swept out of the 2002 NBA Finals by the Los Angeles Lakers. They then traded Keith Van Horn for Dikembe Mutumbo (from the 76ers) which helped the Nets win two more games in the 2003 NBA Finals, but still losing 4-2 against the San Antonio Spurs.

Kevin was selected, by the Minnesota Timberwolves, directly out of high school, where he won his NBA MVP award in 1994.

Kirk played most of his career for the Bulls (two stints), but also played for the Atlanta Hawks (two stints) and the Washington Wizards. All reasons why he never won much of anything in the NBA in his 13 year NBA career.

Lebron James was the #1 overall pick of the 2003 NBA draft. Kyle Korver was the 51st pick. Kyle would later play for the Cleveland Cavaliers during their third and fourth attempts to beat the Golden State Warriors.

Kobe holds the second-highest game point total with 81 points (against the Toronto Raptors) behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points scored in 1962. Kobe and his daughter (and others) died in a helicopter accident in January 2020.

Kevin also led the talented Oklahoma City Thunder to the 2012 NBA Finals against the stacked Miami Heat, but lost to the Heat, despite Kevin averaging over 30 points per game, over the five-game series.

Khris, a forward, was part of the 2021 Milwaukee Bucks team that won the NBA Championship, beating the Phoenix Suns in six games.

Kiki played for four teams from 1980 to 1993 and averaged just short of 30 points (29.4) per game for the Nuggets in the 1983/84 season, placing third in the scoring championship standings for that season.

Kevin did something seemingly impossible by dunking over the all-time NBA blocks leader, Hakeem Olajuwon, during the 1994 NBA playoffs... just one year following the playoffs where his Phoenix Suns came two wins short of beating the unstopaBULLs, to become first time NBA Champions.

Klay's "splash brothers" teammate Stephen Curry (son to the Charlotte Hornets' Dell Curry) has had his share of depth-defying three pointer games, but Klay has outdone his teammate by dropping 14 3-pointers (against the Chicago Bulls), out-splashing his "brother" by one 3-pointer.

Kristaps Porzingis, born in Latvia, is currently (as of March 2024) the third highest scorer on the Boston Celtics (scoring about 20 points per game). He has scored over 20 points per game with the Knicks, the Mavericks, and the Wizards.

Kevin Willis was selected as an NBA All-Star for the 1992 game in Orlando (Magic Johnson's last All-Star game) and he won his lone NBA championship with the 2003 San Antonio Spurs. Despite Kevin's 7'0" height, he had a below average (for his height) wing-span of 6'10".

Larry Brown was the head coach of the 2004 NBA Champion Detroit Pistons.

Kyle Lowry won his first (and only thus far) NBA ring with the Toronto Raptors (2019) and also went to the NBA Finals in 2023 with the Miami Heat, starting one of those games.

After six years with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kyrie decided to bolt out of Cleveland to search for NBA glory as the leader of the team, rather than play in Lebron James' shadow. He missed out on a fourth straight NBA Finals appearance in 2018... perhaps he could have helped them get past the Warriors that year.

Kenny "The Jet" Smith never played with Charles Barkley (IN the NBA) as he now does OUT of the NBA, as Kenny's last season with the Rockets (95/96) was the season before Charles Barkley arrived (for his last four NBA seasons). Kenny played for three other teams (Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, and the Denver Nuggets) before retiring.

Kurt played for the Miami Heat, then the Dallas Mavericks, then the New York Knicks, then the Phoenix Suns, then the Seattle Supersonics, then the San Antonio Spurs, then the Milwaukee Bucks, then the Chicago Bulls, then the Portland Trailblazers, and then back to the Knicks before retiring after playing 1,110 games!

Kevin once held the record (in 1978) for dishing out 29 assists in a game and led the NBA in assists per game for four seasons between 1975 and 1981.

Unfortunately, Kelvin has few (if any) NBA accolades to mention. He almost racked up 3,000 each of points and rebounds in his NBA career (2,960 and 2,874, respectively).

Anthony Perkins starred in the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho". Kendrick Perkins starred on the 2008 Celtics team that earned Boston their 17th NBA championship, after a 22 year wait. Sam Perkins, a North Carolina teammate of Michael Jordan, was chosen #4 in the 1984 NBA draft.