I don't believe Khazzouh actually ever played for Lebanon and hence remains able to represent Australia. Bose has been playing for Kazahkstan and we all know Irving has chose to play for USA.

Would be a nice little exercise...

Starting point:
Bogut
Mills
Baynes
Delly
Ingles
Exum
Broekhoff
Exum
Simmons
Bairstow
Newley
Anderson
Goulding
Jawai
Motum
THon Maker
Drmic
Khazzouh
Greenwood
McCarron
Mathiang (Mangok)
Deng Deng
Hooley

Greggo - Exum gets his name on the list twice?

And are you taking Hooley and others at this point in time of a proven guy like Gibbo?

Greggo, I was with you until you started giving college guys spots over long standing NBL players.

THon Maker - yet to actually prove anything. There are plenty of centres above him at the moment

Drmic - would be below Gliddon and Blanchfield for me. Yet to prove anything against men.

Khazzouh - What's he done for me lately? He is probably somewhere in the 50, but not this high.

Greenwood - surely Gibson and Martin get a pass over him at this point?

McCarron - nice player, could be the heir apparent to Newley / Goulding, still unproven. Would be in the latter half of my 50.

Mathiang (Mangok) - Whats he really done?

Deng Deng - as above?

Hooley - As above.

Just a starting point as I said. Just throwing in some names off the top of my head. The second Exum was Cecil. Think he can make a return from retirement for Rio

Yes but Bairstow made Boomers world champs roster so that puts him up there.

I think most Australian NBL players inside their clubs top 6 players would be top 50 overall. Keep in mind this means 8 clubs minus 16 imports plus probably another 8 kiwis. This is 24 players plus 26 from europe and the usa.

Don't forget all the defunct clubs - lots of those!

Check out previous thread on a similar topic "Top 10 Australian Basketballers of All Time" from 2 years ago

Australia only had about 75 truly professional basketball players last season (two in Asia, seven in USA, nine in Europe and 55-60 in the NBL), so a top 50 list would be about two thirds the total. Given only about 4-5 college players graduate to professional ranks each year, there isn't a lot more to take from there either.

Great idea, thought I would give 50 a crack. I'm assuming top 50 active men players.....here goes

1. Bogut
2. Mills
3. Baynes
4. Ingles
5. Delly
6. Exum
7. Simmons
8. Newly
9. Bairstow
10. Goulding
11. Motum
12. Maric
13. Broekhoff
14. Jawai
15. D. Martin
16. Madgen
17. Gibson
18. Anderson
19. Khazzouh
20. Ogilvy
21. Knight
22. Johnson
23. Redhage
24. Blanchfield
25. Creek
26. Carter
27. Maker
28. R. Martin
29. Barlow
30. Petrie
31. Gliddon
32. Worthington
33. Brandt
34. Dillon
35. Forman
36. Drimic
37. Neville
38. Tragardh
39. Greenwood
40. Markovich
41. Walker
42. Waggestaff
43. Loughton
44. Kickert
45. Trist
46. Garlepp
47. Coenraad
48. Jois
49. Hire
50. McCarron

Its a good list. I don't think there is anyone that has missed out on the list. However, for mine, some guys are misplaced. Madgen hasn't done anything in atleast 2 years to justify coming before Blanchfield - who is the NBL's emerging Aussie star. I also don't rate him above Gliddon, Johnson, Gibson or Anderson. I also think Mccarron would be better than 50th. I can't imagine Cooenrad being better than Mccarron. Clint Steindl probably deserves Cooenrads spot. Other than that, pretty close.

NO JONAH BOLDEN?