Johan Petro is among the players born on Jan. 27.
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 27.
Johan Petro (1986)
This is hard to believe, but Petro is one of just two players who played more than four seasons of all the guys born on January 27. The 7-foot Frenchman was selected 25th in the 2005 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics and spent his first four years with that organization. His final year with them was when they moved to Oklahoma City, but a midseason trade sent him to the Denver Nuggets. Petro spent two seasons in Denver and then joined the New Jersey Nets and Atlanta Hawks before retiring in 2013.
Want to see every NBA player born on January 27? Here is the rest of the list in chronological order:
- Connie Rea (January 27, 1931)
- Tony Windis (January 27, 1933)
- Sam Smith (January 27, 1944)
- Russ Lee (January 27, 1950)
- Wesley Cox (January 27, 1955)
- Harry Davis (January 27, 1956)
- Jack Haley (January 27, 1964)
- Frank Kornet (January 27, 1967)
- Todd MacCulloch (January 27, 1976)
- Lonnie Baxter (January 27, 1979)
- Jiri Welch (January 27, 1980)
