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All figures reflect 2026-27 NBA opening-night rosters, including two-way players. All ages are as of Oct. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n
519 \u2014 Players on NBA opening-night rosters.<\/p>\n
276 \u2014 Players with NBA G League experience (a record 53.2% of all players). The Atlanta Hawks have the most of any team (13).<\/p>\n
219 \u2014 Average weight of players, in pounds.<\/p>\n
126 \u2014 Players selected in the second round of the NBA Draft (24.3% of all players). The Memphis Grizzlies and New York Knicks are tied for the most of any team (seven each).<\/p>\n
125 \u2014 International players (24.1% of all players), marking the sixth consecutive season with at least 120 on opening-night rosters. The Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat and Washington Wizards are tied for the most of any team (seven each).<\/p>\n
120 \u2014 Players born on or after Oct. 29, 2003, the date of LeBron James\u2019 NBA regular-season debut (23.1% of all players). James is the NBA\u2019s oldest player at 41 years, 294 days old.<\/p>\n
119 \u2014 Colleges represented. Each player is counted toward his last college program before entering the NBA.<\/p>\n
106 \u2014 Undrafted players (20.4% of all players). The Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns are tied for the most of any team (six each).<\/p>\n
73 \u2014 Rookies (14.1% of all players), with the Oklahoma City Thunder having the most of any team (five).<\/p>\n
46 \u2014 Colleges represented by exactly one player, including Davidson (Stephen Curry), Fresno State (Paul George) and San Diego State (Kawhi Leonard).<\/p>\n
43 \u2014 Countries represented, matching the league record. France has the most players of any country outside the United States (17).<\/p>\n
42 \u2014 Players listed at 7 feet or taller (8.1% of all players). Tacko Fall is the tallest at 7-foot-6, followed by Zach Edey and Victor Wembanyama (7-foot-4 each).<\/p>\n
26.3 \u2014 Average age of players, in years. The Brooklyn Nets have the youngest roster on average (24.3 years), while the Golden State Warriors have the oldest (29.4 years).<\/p>\n
26 \u2014 Players each from Duke and Kentucky, tied for the most of any college, followed by Arizona (16), Michigan (13), and Gonzaga and North Carolina (12 each).<\/p>\n
24 \u2014 Players wearing No. 8, the most common jersey number, followed by No. 5 (23 players) and Nos. 0 and 9 (22 each).<\/p>\n
15 \u2014 Players younger than 20. Memphis Grizzlies rookie Cameron Boozer is the youngest at 19 years, 94 days old.<\/p>\n
12 \u2014 Jersey numbers worn by exactly one player, out of 58 distinct numbers across the NBA: 36, 42, 47, 50, 51, 52, 54, 61, 91, 93, 94 and 95.<\/p>\n
10 \u2014 Sets of brothers: Julian and Justin Champagnie, Cam and Max Christie, Dylan Harper and Ron Harper Jr., Tre and Tyus Jones, Keegan and Kris Murray, Andrew and Ryan Nembhard, Cam and Pat Spencer, Amen and Ausar Thompson, Franz and Moritz Wagner, and Cody and Jalen Williams.<\/p>\n
9 \u2014 Teams with players wearing both No. 0 and No. 00: Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn Nets, Charlotte Hornets, Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Portland Trail Blazers and Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n
6-7 \u2014 Average height of players (6 feet, 7 inches).<\/p>\n
6 \u2014 Players with at least 18 years of NBA experience: LeBron James (23), Mike Conley (19), Kevin Durant (19), Al Horford (19), DeAndre Jordan (18) and Brook Lopez (18).<\/p>\n
4.7 \u2014 Average years of NBA experience per player. The Golden State Warriors have the most experienced roster on average (7.1 years), while the Memphis Grizzlies have the least experienced (2.9 years).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All figures reflect 2026-27 NBA opening-night rosters, including two-way players. All ages are as of Oct. 20, 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-895388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}