Mike Gminski is among the players born on August 3.
With over 5,000 players in NBA history, at least one player was born on every day of the calendar year – including four 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 August 3.
Mike Gminski (1959)
“G-Man” was one of the best players in the country coming out of Duke, and he became the seventh overall pick in the 1980 NBA Draft as a result. He spent his first eight seasons with the New Jersey Nets, averaging at least 16 points per game in his final three seasons with the team.
That trajectory led to a career year in his debut season with the Philadelphia 76ers, averaging a career-high 17.2 points, 9.4 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.3 blocks per game. He joined the Charlotte Hornets for four years after that before officially retiring with the Milwaukee Bucks in 1994. Gminski ended up playing 14 years in the NBA, averaging 11.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 0.5 steals and 1.1 blocks per game.
Want to see every NBA player born on August 3? Here is the rest of the list in chronological order:
- Elmore Morgenthaler (August 3, 1922)
- Marshall Hawkins (August 3, 1924)
- Bob Carney (August 3, 1932)
- Joe Ruklick (August 3, 1938)
- Jim Reid (August 3, 1945)
- Rich Rinaldi (August 3, 1949)
- Bob Gross (August 3, 1953)
- Wilson Washington (August 3, 1955)
- Nate McMillan (August 3, 1964)
- Doug Overton (August 3, 1969)
- Derek Grimm (August 3, 1974)
- Viktor Khryapa (August 3, 1982)
- Naz Mitrou-Long (August 3, 1993)
- Kendrick Nunn (August 3, 1995)
- Kelan Martin (August 3, 1995)
- Trevon Duval (August 3, 1998)
- Damion Baugh (August 3, 2000)
- Ricky Council IV (August 3, 2001)
