With over 5,000 players in NBA history, at least one player was born on every day of the calendar year – including four leap day ballers. Our day-by-day breakdown of the players born on each day of the year continues.
Below are the most notable NBA players born on June 13.
Sarunas Marciulionis (1964)
Marciulionis was the 127th overall pick in the 1987 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. While he played his first two seasons overseas, this southpaw became a stud once he came to the NBA. The Lithuanian was one of the best bench players in the league through his first four seasons in Golden State, averaging 14.7 points, 2.8 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.4 steals per game in that span. Marciulionis finished second in Sixth Man of the Year voting in 1992, closing his playing career with one-year stints in Seattle, Sacramento and Denver before officially retiring in 1997.
That was only the start for Marciulionis, as he helped spearhead the revival of the Lithuanian National Team after its separation from Russia, leading them to medals in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. The guard-forward also helped found the Lithuanian Basketball League and the North European Basketball League. All of those contributions earned Marciulionis a Hall of Fame induction in 2014, and he’s one of the primary reasons Lithuanian basketball is so relevant today.
Hassan Whiteside (1989)
“Count Blockula” was one of the best defensive centers throughout his 10-year career. The big man was selected 33rd overall in the 2010 NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings but didn’t really break out until he rejoined the NBA after a two-year stint overseas. Whiteside signed with the Miami Heat in 2014, finishing 14th in Defensive Player of the Year voting in his return to the league. The following season, Whiteside finished third in Defensive Player of the Year voting and made All-Defensive Second Team, leading the league with 3.7 blocks per game.
Whiteside followed that up with another league-leading season, averaging a league-best 14.1 rebounds while finishing fifth in DPOY voting in 2016-17. He led the league with 2.9 bpg in his one season with the Portland Trail Blazers in 2019-20 and then had short stints with the Kings and Utah Jazz before playing his final game in 2022. Whiteside is still playing in Puerto Rico, but the big man averaged 12.6 points, 10.8 rebounds and 2.2 blocks throughout his 10-year NBA career.
Want to see every NBA player born on June 13? Here is the rest of the list in chronological order:
- Jack Garfinkel (1918)
- Paul Cloyd (1920)
- Gary Keller (1944)
- Freddie Boyd (1950)
- Fred Saunders (1951)
- Bruce Flowers (1957)
- Chuck Nevitt (1959)
- Sarunas Marciulionis (1964)
- Linton Johnson (1980)
- Jamario Moon (1980)
- Juan Carlos Navarro (1980)
- Steve Novak (1983)
- Hassan Whiteside (1989)
- Chris Duarte (1997)
- Jordan Schakel (1998)
- Jalen Lecque (2000)
- Hunter Tyson (2000)