Has there ever been any Native Americans that made it to the NBA? if so? what tribes were they from?

Answer 1

I couldn't find any information specifically on Native NBA players. But I do have some information that may be helpful or at least interesting:

We should remember that many African American people have Native American ancestry. So i'm sure there has been some in the NBA but for these people it may have not been their primary ethnic identification.

Spider "William Ledesma" was one of the top ten in FIBA (international basketball) and is supposed to be Native.

Interesting fact: Basketball is originally a tribal sport. There is a sport very similar to basketball that existed among some Indigenous people. Today basketball is like "the sport" for Native people. There are several all Native basketball tournaments and they are Very! popular in Native communites.

I'm a Native woman. Been to many Native basketball tournies. Natives make great bball players!

http://www.nascsports.org/
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1057943618
http://www.nba.com/suns/news/nabi_030221
http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3043558&l_id=64&t_id=
http://www.allnativetournament.com/

Answer 2

Eduardo Najera

Answer 3

no, although some player might have had like 1/16 NA

Jim Thorpe was good enough to go pro in everything though but he set his sights elsewhere

there's going to be an all Native American team in the ABA though

Answer 4

There haven't been any Native American players in the NBA...yet.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1385520