Despite being known for its elevation, Colorado’s basketball bonafides don’t rise to the level of hoops hotbeds such as New York, Illinois and California.
When it comes to born-and-raised basketball stars from the Centennial State, putting together a top 10 is no easy task. It’s not that the state’s high schools don’t produce talent. NBA All-Stars Chauncey Billups, Scott Wedman, Tom Chambers, Micheal Ray Richardson and Joe Barry Carroll all spent their prep days on the Front Range. But only one of those men took his first breaths in Colorado’s thin air.
For that reason, we’ve switched things up in our fourth and final installment of top 10 Colorado pro stars and widened our focus to include those who played high school ball here, but were born elsewhere.