The NBA will tip off its 72nd season on Tuesday night when the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers square off at 7 p.m. CDT in the first game of the campaign.
The NBA has only a handful of players from Alabama high schools and colleges, but it hasn’t always been that way.
So to mark the start of the 2017-18 NBA season, here are the top 25 NBA (and ABA) careers by players with Alabama basketball roots, according to an advanced metric known as “win shares” (as calculated on the web site basketballreference.