Rick Aldeman is among the players born on June 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 June 16.
Rick Adelman (1946)
Adelman was selected 79th overall in the 1968 NBA Draft by the San Diego Rockets. He spent just two seasons in San Diego but really broke out in his third year with the Portland Trail Blazers. Adelman averaged 12.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.7 assists in that career year. The point guard spent time with Chicago, New Orleans and Kansas City before ending his playing career in 1975.
That was just the start of Adelman’s NBA journey, which continued as he spent the next 30 years as a coach. Adelman was an assistant for the Portland Trail Blazers for six seasons before becoming their head coach in 1989. He coached them to two Western Conference titles in two of his first four seasons and recorded at least 47 wins in five years. Adelman spent two years as the Golden State Warriors’ head coach after that and then started an eight-year stint with the Sacramento Kings in 1998. He closed his coaching career with a four-year stint with the Houston Rockets and then a three-year stint with the Minnesota Timberwolves before officially retiring in 2014. Adelman is one of 10 coaches in NBA history with over 1,000 wins (1,042 victories).
Want to see every NBA player born on June 16? Here is the rest of the list in chronological order:
- Hank Rosenstein (June 16, 1920)
- John Mahnken (June 16, 1922)
- Bill Bradley (June 16, 1941)
- Mickey Davis (June 16, 1950)
- Al Skinner (June 16, 1952)
- Tree Rollins (June 16, 1955)
- Lee Johnson (June 16, 1957)
- Darrell Griffith (June 16, 1958)
- Shawnelle Scott (June 16, 1972)
- Mamadou N’Diaye (June 16, 1975)
- Anthony Carter (June 16, 1975)
- Brandon Armstrong (June 16, 1980)
- Nemanja Nedovic (June 16, 1991)
- Andrew White (June 16, 1993)
- Alex Len (June 16, 1993)
- Ky Bowman (June 16, 1997)
- CJ Elleby (June 16, 2000)
