page_title: List of German Americans
section_title: Basketball
hierarchical_section_title: List of German Americans / Sports / Basketball
caption_attribution_description: English: University of Kentucky men's basketball coach Adolph Rupp in 1930
context_page_description: German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the Irish and English. Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities. This list also includes people of German Jewish descent.
context_section_description: Uwe Blab – former NBA center
  Buddy Boeheim – Syracuse University guard
  Jim Boeheim – Syracuse University NCAA basketball coach
  Carlos Boozer – professional basketball player born in West Germany in a U.S. Army base
  Shawn Bradley – former center in the NBA and for the German national basketball team
  Carl Braun – professional basketball player and coach
  Jon Brockman – professional basketball player
  Jud Buechler – former guard/forward with the NBA Chicago Bulls
  Jon Diebler – professional basketball player
  Demond Greene – professional basketball player for the German national team
  Isaiah Hartenstein – NBA Power Forward / Center
  Fred Hetzel – retired NBA basketball player
  Kirk Hinrich – NBA guard for the Chicago Bulls
  Phil Jackson – New York Knicks team president, former NBA player and coach; Jackson's mother was part of a German Mennonite family
  Chris Kaman – center for the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA and for the German national basketball team (dual citizen of the United States and of Germany)
  Lon Kruger – professional and college basketball coach
  Jon Leuer – professional basketball player
  Rebecca Lobo – television basketball analyst and a former player in the professional Women's National Basketball Association
  Drew Neitzel – All-American NCAA basketball player
  Jeff Neubauer – Western Kentucky University NCAA basketball coach
  Johnny Neumann – professional basketball player and coach
  Dirk Nowitzki – German player for Dallas Mavericks in NBA who applied for U.S. citizenship in 2011
  Greg Ostertag – NBA center
  Steve Prohm – college basketball coach
  Anthony Randolph – professional basketball player born in West Germany in a U.S. Army base
  Adolph Rupp – college basketball coach and Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame member
  Fred Schaus – basketball player, head coach and athletic director
  Detlef Schrempf – former NBA All-Star forward
  Akeem Vargas – professional basketball player for the German national team
  Jeff Walz – head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Louisville
caption: Adolph Rupp
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