Don MacLean is 1 of 15 NBA players born on Jan. 16.
With over 5,000 players in NBA history, at least one player was born on every day of the calendar year – including three leap-day ballers. Our day-by-day breakdown of the players born on each day of the year continues.
Below are the most notable NBA players born on Jan. 16.
Don MacLean (1970)
MacLean is known as one of the greatest college players of all time. He played for UCLA between 1989 and 1992 and remains UCLA’s all-time scoring leader. That earned him the 19th pick in the 1993 NBA Draft, playing his first three seasons for the Washington Bullets. MacLean won the Most Improved Player award in his sophomore season after averaging a career-high 18.2 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists. He played for six different teams during his NBA career, suiting up for the Denver Nuggets, Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets, Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns and Miami Heat.
Want to see every NBA player born on January 16? Here is the rest of the list in chronological order:
- Mel Thurston (January 16, 1919)
- Ervin Inniger (January 16, 1945)
- Gerald Henderson (January 16, 1956)
- Ron Moore (January 16, 1962)
- Cedric Hunter (January 16, 1965)
- Marc Jackson (January 16, 1975)
- Randell Jackson (January 16, 1976)
- Jeff Foster (January 16, 1977)
- Justin Reed (January 16, 1982)
- Greivis Vasquez (January 16, 1987)
- Craig Sword (January 16, 1994)
- Zhou Qi (January 16, 1996)
- Andrew Nembhard (January 16, 2000)
- Michael Foster Jr (January 16, 2003)
