Whites in the NBA

Although not a white friendly league, the NBA still has many white players, and a small number of teams, to root for. The following analysis was conducted before training camp, so some changes will be made based on the evolving rosters and trades.

Out of the 97 total white players in the NBA, there are still more American whites than foreign whites, 55 to 42.

American whites account for 17 PowerForwards, 14 Centers, 9 SmallForwards, 8 PointGuards, and 7 ShootingGuards.

Foreign whites account for 16 Centers, 7 PowerForwards, 7 PointGuards, 6 SmallForwards, and 6 ShootingGuards.

Indiana can probably be called the most white-friendly team in the league this year, being the only team with 3 white starters (Nesterovich, Murphy, Dunleavy). Indiana plays with 6 whites total (with backups Foster, Diener, McRoberts).

Portland, shockingly, is the whitest team in the league, with 7 whites total, but with only one starter (Blake) and six off the bench (Rudy Fernandez, Sean Hill, Luke Jackson, Rodriguez, Pryzbilla, LaFrentz).

Utah has six total whites, with 2 white starters (Kirilenko and Okur) and 4 bench guys (Korver, Harpring, Fesenko, Koufos).

The Lakers have 6 whites total, with one starter, Pau Gasol, and five off the bench (Walton, Vujacic, Radmanovic, Mihm, Karl). Last year, their second unit would often play extremely well, widening leads, sometimes playing 5 whites at a time, so that is a good thing to root for. But of course, all the credit will go to K Bryant, even when the team plays better with him out, so that pretty much sucks from a pro-white standpoint.

Toronto is no longer a standard-bearing white team, starting only 1 white (Jose Calderon). Although with 4 whites coming off the bench for significant minutes (Bargnani, Humphries, Kapono, Ukic), they are still ahead of the curve.

Cleveland is among the whitest overall teams, with 5 white players, 2 starters (Ilgauskas, Szczerbiak) and 3 backups (Varejao, Pavlovic, Alred).


Other teams with two white starters:
Sacramento, with Brad Miller and Udric (3 total with Spencer Hawes),
San Antonio with Oberto and Ginobili (3 total with Bonner),
maybe Minnesota, if Love starts with Mike Miller (5 total with Madsen, Doleac, Cardinal).

Phoenix also has five whites, with Nash starting and four backups (Amundson, Dragic, Piatkowski, Robin Lopez).

In Milwaukie, Ridnour could easily grab the starting spot at PG, making two white starters along with Bogut at C, with 4 whites total including backups Joe Alexander and Voskuhl .

Memphis is not a white team anymore, going white at C (Miliic, Gasol, and Haddadi) but only one white otherwise (M Jaric).

Teams with one white starter and 3 whites on the bench include the Clippers, Warriors, and Magic.

Less than that, why even mention.

name team pos
Ahmed Haddadi MEM C
Austin Croshere GSW PF
Adam Morrison CHA SF
Aleksandar Pavlovic CLE SG
Anderson Varejao CLE PF
Andrea Bargnani TOR PF
Andrei Kirilenko UTA SF
Andres Nocioni CHI PF
Andrew Bogut MIL C
Andris Biedrins GSW C
Beno Udrih SAC PG
Blake Ahearn MIA PG
Brad Miller SAC C
Brent Barry HOU SG
Brian Cardinal MIN PF
Brian Scalabrine BOS PF
Brook Lopez NJN C
Casey Jacobsen MEM SG
Chris Andersen DEN PF
Chris Humphreys TOR PF
Chris Kaman LAC C
Chris Mihm LAL C
Chris Quinn MIA PG
Coby Karl LAL SG
Dan Dickau LAC PG
Danilo Gallinari NYK SG
Darius Songaila WAS P F
Darko Milicic MEM C
David Lee NYK PF
Dirk Nowitzki DAL P F
E Piatkowski PHX SF
Eduardo Najera NJN PF
Fabricio Oberto SAS C
Goran Dragic PHX PG
Hedo Turkoglu ORL S F
Jake Voskuhl MIL C
Jason Kapono TOR SF
Jason Williams LAC PG
Jeff Foster IND C
JJ Redick ORL SG
Joe Alexander MIL SF
Joel Przybilla POR C
Jose Barea DAL PG
Josh McRoberts IND PF
Kevin Love MIN PF
Kirk Hinrich CHI PG
Kosta Koufos UTA C
Kosta Perovic GSW C
Kyle Korver UTA SG
Kyrylo Fesenko UTA C
Lance Alred CLE C
Linas Kleiza DEN SF
Louis Amundson PHX PF
Luis Scola HOU PF
Luke Jackson POR SF
Luke Ridnour MIL PG
Luke Walton LAL SF
Manu Ginobili SAS S G
Marc Gasol MEM C
Marcin Gortat ORL C
Marco Belinelli GSW SG
Mark Madsen MIN PF
Marko Jaric MEM SG
Matt Bonner SAS PF
Matt Carroll CHA SG
Matt Harpring UTA SF
Mehmet Okur UTA C
Michael Doleac MIN C
Mike Dunleavy IND SF
Mike Miller MIN SG
Nick Collison OKT PF
Nick Fazekas LAC PF
Oleksiy Pecherov WAS C
Pat Garrity ORL PF
Pau Gasol LAL C
Peja Stojakovic NOH ;SF
R LaFrentz POR C
Rasho Nesterovich IND C
Robert Swift OKT C
Robin Lopez PHX C
Roko Ukic TOR PG
Rudy Fernandez POR SG
Ryan Anderson NJN PF
Sasha Vujacic LAL PG
Scott Pollard BOS PF
Sean Hill POR C
Sergio Rodriguez POR PG
Spencer Hawes SAC C
Steve Blake POR PG
Steve Nash PHX PG
Travis Diener IND PG
Troy Murphy IND PF
Vladimir Radmanovic LAL SF
Wally Szczerbiak CLE SF
Walter Hermann DET SF
Zaza Pachulia ATL C
Zydrunas Ilgauskas CLE C