Basketball
- Ryan Anderson - New Jersey Nets forward
- Matt Barnes - Los Angeles Lakers forward who has played for sixNBA teams
- Bill Cartwright - NBA center who played for three teams and won three championships
- David Cooke - one-year NBA forward with the Sacramento Kings
- James Donaldson - former NBA center
- Jim Eakins - former NBA/ABA center
- Darnell Hillman - former NBA/ABA forward
- Mel Hutchins - former NBA forward
- Joel Jones - member of the Puerto Rican national basketball team
- Kevin Johnson - former NBA guard who played for the Phoenix Suns and the Cleveland Cavaliers, became mayor of Sacramento in 2008
- Jim Loscutoff - former NBA forward
- Rich Manning - former NBA forward
- Demarcus Nelson - former NBA guard - A Duke university standout played briefly with the G.S. Warriors attended Sheldon High School in Sacramento CA.
- Jameel Pugh - forward named the World’s Best Dunker in 2000, and the 33rd-best dunker of all time, by Slam Magazine
- Michael Stewart - former NBA center who played for five teams
- Don Verlin - men's basketball coach at the University of Idaho
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)