While California has been the state that has produced more NBA players than any other, Sacramento has not exactly been a hotbed for talent. Most of the guys who make it to the league from the West Coast are from the Greater Los Angeles area, and Oakland produces a high number of players per capita.
Of the 10 NBA players who were born in Sacramento, only one has been an All-Star. Three of them played just one season, and five of them retired before 1986. So in our quest to list the best players who were born in the area, we had to reach out to a few outlying cities and claim as Sacramento’s own.