Not yet but he probably will be.

Good early call, but a very early one. He is on track though!

Just to clarify, are you saying best Aust Basketballer or best Aust Sportsperson of all time.

Both no in my opinion,
If Basketball - Then Gazey is still my Greatest of All Time.
But as mentioned above, he is still only 25 & will most likely over take Gazey by the end of his career.

If Australia Greatest Ever Sportsperson - Then no chance.
Sorry Don Bradman & Rod Laver are miles ahead of Patty.
I could name another 10+ greater sportspeople than Patty at this stage.

I read into the OP as 'greatest Aussie b'baller', I would not entertain him as being the greatest over all sports, that is a stretch...

He has got plenty of time left to put himself into #1 spot. Not there just yet.

Love Mills' game. But what about Lauren Jackson?

If we were putting women and men in the same category and comparing what they have done in their respective leagues and careers the greatest would be Lauren Jackson by a country mile. But as we are most likely talking about men, Lack of real NBA impact not withstanding Andrew Gaze remains our greatest ever male Basketball player and has had the most impact of any player for the game here.

Longley has had success but lets be honest, on that 3 peat Chicago team they would have worked with any barely adequate center who could just stand there.. be 7 feet tall and swat the occasional shot. Not a lot was really asked of the guy, he played his role.. but he kind of was just "along for the ride" for that team and by no means do I think of him when I think of the Aussie "Goat"...

Too early to say on Dante Exum, Ben Simmons or Thon Maker... but I do expect Patty Mills to put his name in the GOAT conversation and if he isn't surpassed by those 3 names then I believe he will be.

Depends on the criterion for consideration, in terms of working your ass off, refining your skill set & siezing opportunity, patty's Already possibly our most acomplished male baller.

Gaze for mine. Top two all-time scorers in Olympics and WCs.

i think bogut is the most talented australian basketballer. due to injuries though bogut will likely have to be managed through the rest of his career. mills bogut and gaze would be the names to talk about and would be more fair to compare at the end of their careers but mills is still very young by nba standards so is on track for the current nba guys to be called the best aussie baller.

Let's check Wikipedia:

Andrew Bogut:
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All-NBA Third Team (2010)
NBA All-Rookie First Team (2006)
NBA blocks leader (2011)
Consensus first team All-American (2005)
Naismith College Player of the Year (2005)
John R. Wooden Award (2005)
Oscar Robertson Trophy (2005)
Mountain West Player of the Year (2005)
No. 4 retired by University of Utah
FIBA Under-19 World Championship MVP (2003)
And drafted #1 (2005)


Andrew Gaze:
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NBL Rookie of the Year (1984)
15x All-NBL First Team (1986-2000)
6x Gaze Medal winner (1990, 1994-1996, 1998, 2000)
7x NBL MVP (1991, 1992, 1994–1998)
FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991)
2x NBL champion (1993, 1997)
NBA champion (1999)
Australian Basketball Hall of Fame (2004)
Sport Australia Hall of Fame (2005)
All-time leading points scorer in the NBL (32.0 ppg)


Patty Mills:
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NBA champion (2014)

as ive said. bogut is the most talented. gaze has the accolades of a champion , but by the time all 3 have retired and we can look back on it patty has the opportunity to be the best of the current crop. but certainly on current accolades you would have gaze. bogut would be a shoo in if he could have stayed fit.

Really it depends what you rank as more important

Boomers - Olympics/World Champs

or

NBA

Cant really bring up Gazes NBL acheivements as Mills, Longley and Bogut the main contenders with Gaze have barely played NBL (if at all) but i think its fair to say among the Aussies who played significant NBL careers Gaze was the best, 7 time MVP speaks for itself. However you could easily argue had Mills, Bogut, Longley played NBL they would have all been NBL candidates for there careers too, so that is why we wont use NBL careers. Mills was pretty good during his brief Tigers stint.

Now if you rank Boomers acheivements first then Guys like Gaze and Mills would be ahead of Bogut and Longley, with Gaze being a fair bit ahead overall, largely due to multiple high level Boomers campaigns, Mills may get around the mark, but not there yet.

If you rank NBA acheivements first then Mills, Bogut, Longley are all ahead of Gaze. Then how do you rank the other 3 who would be basically our 3 best NBA players at this point. If you use the PER stat as a way of ranking them then Bogut is first (16.90), closely followed by Mills (16.80) then followed by Longley (11.99). Could also use college but that is a little harder as so many different conferences, strength of conferences, etc, but id say the order would stay the same anyway.

So I guess which ever way you look at it, Mills is in the top handful of Aussie basketballers to have played, he is also still young and still playing, yet to reach his prime so this will be interesting to look back at in around 10 years time when guys like Mills and Bogut are retired and then we will be possibly adding guys like Exum, Simmons, Maker, etc into the debate if they live upto there potential/hype.

Still some Patty haters out there.
Though Gaze played a minor role in the NBA his international and NBL achievements still have him at the top IMO with Mills closing in on him.
Bogut deserves a mention for his NBA efforts alone.
Exum isn't worth talking about for a few years yet.

I reckon bogut is jealous of mills. Hasnt even said congrats publically to him or baynes

thats a big stretch to make. you dont know if he has privately. you dont know if he has publicly in some form and you haven't seen it unless you stalk every news media outlet in usa/golden state. when twitter came along all other forms of media such as radio didnt disappear.

even if he hadnt im not sure how you can put that down to jealousy without just making an assumption. unless your one of those people that likes to nitpick over every little thing people do when you know nothing about them personally?

NBA scouts saw Bogut as the best player in this draft class versus a guy who almost went undrafted.

I know the centre position doesn't run as deep but in his prime Bogut was one of the top few players in the NBA at his position, can you honestly say that will every happen to Mills?

he's not even the best Australian in the NBA at the moment! is it school holidays yet?

I noticed at tennews,lastnite, that he was Australia's best under18 aussie rules footy player, one time ago.

To me you judge a player as the greatest when watching them you have the most confidence that they will succeed.

If your judging that then I don't think we still feel that with Patty and Gaze is still #1.

In the future I reckon we will only grow in confidence with Mills and I wish him all the best

No way. Just another rich snob. Does nothing for his own Aboriginal people. Been 7 years since he even went to his Aboriginal community. Gives absolutely nothing to them. His elders weren't even invited to his wedding and some that were had to pay their way.
Has nephews and neices who want his spurs shirt but he gives nothing.
Over $12 million US a year and can't even visit his Aboriginal community for 7 years now! Does only that which pays him. Water projects in desert are all paid by and partnership deals.
Makes a book to inspire Aboriginal kids but charges them $15 for each. Then uses proceeds to sell more his publicity. Tells everyone he is an Ambassador for all Indigenous people, yet clearly is way out of touch with reality of most Indigenous people. Which is actually poverty. Where is the Patty Mills scholarship Foundation?? Answer is it doesn't exist because Pat cares about Pat.

John, was that meant to be satire? I've never heard anyone say something bad about Mills. Pop often compliments him for his good character and exemplary off-court attitude, describing him as "the best teammate ever". Mills is well known to make visits to indigenous communities in the NBA off-season. A quick google search showed this during the last NBA off-season:

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/it-just-shows-you-the-sort-of-person-he-is-desperate-drought-stricken-community-is-overwhelmed-by-generosity-of-basketball-star-patty-mills-who-paid-for-emergency-water/ar-AAEYsgY

I'd suggest the only reason you don't know about all of this is because Mills remains so grounded and humble. He really ought to be the flag-bearer for Australia in Tokyo.

john what are you doing for the jerk community brah

Patty just moved to #2 on the Spurs all time threes made list

He really ought to be the flag-bearer for Australia in Tokyo.

At just under 40% shooting average, he's also one of their most accurate over his 9 seasons
https://www.landofbasketball.com/all_time_leaders/spurs/3_pts_pg_career_rs.htm

Yeah, Bradman....Rod Laver... to be honest there would be a massive list of sports people ahead.

That's not a slight on Mills, there are plenty of unbelievable Australian sporting stories out there.