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He is the only active player who was born before 1985, as well as the only player to be both on the NBA's list of youngest and oldest players in league history. The youngest active player in the NBA is Toronto Raptors center Ulrich Chomche , the 57th overall pick in the 2024 NBA draft , who was born on December 30, 2005.
American baseball player [38] Ken Casanega: 1921–2021: 100: American football quarterback [39] Elmer Carter: 1911–2011: 100: American Negro league baseball player [40] James Carter: 1911–2012: 100: American basketball coach [41] Jaroslav Cháňa: 1899–2000: 100: Czech footballer [42] Newton Chandler: 1893–1997: 103: Australian rules ...
Stanley “Whitey” Von Nieda, who had been the oldest living former NBA player, has died at the age of 101. Von Nieda died Wednesday in Elizabethtown. Von Nieda played a combined 59 games for ...
As of 2022, he is the oldest player to win an NBA championship, having been a member of the NBA champion Chicago Bulls in 1997 at the age of 43. [32] As of October 2023, he is the third-oldest player to ever play an NBA game (the two oldest players to have played in the NBA are Nat Hickey and Kevin Willis ).
In 1949, the founding year of the NBA, Von Nieda was traded to the Baltimore Bullets, where he completed the 1949–50 NBA season. In Baltimore, he started every game playing both point guard and shooting guard. Von Nieda was known for his quickness on the court. [citation needed] After leaving the NBA, he coached at Elizabethtown College for ...
Gary Player: 73 years 2009 Gymnastics: Oksana Chusovitina: 49 years, 231 days Active Ice hockey: Gordie Howe (one-off) 69 years, 276 days 1997 Jaromír Jágr [11] 52 years, 356 days Active International Darts: John Magowan: 72 years 2013 Lacrosse: John Tavares: 47 years 2015 Mixed Martial Arts: John Williams: 70 years, 139 days 2010 Rugby ...
During that season, Haslem became the 30th player in league history to play after turning 40 years old, [49] as well as the first modern era undrafted player to play to that age. [citation needed] Following Vince Carter's retirement during the suspension of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Haslem became the oldest active player in the NBA.
Sixteen years removed from his previous NBA coaching job, Brown was again tapped to be a head coach in the NBA 2002–03 season by Jerry West of the Memphis Grizzlies, who fired coach Sidney Lowe after an 0–8 start. The Grizzlies' choice of Brown was quite controversial at the time; Hubie Brown was the oldest coach in the NBA at the age of 69.