List of oldest and youngest NBA players

[2] The oldest person ever to play in the NBA was Nat Hickey, a coach who activated himself as a player for a game two days before his 46th birthday.

[4] When the Bulls won the 1997 Finals, Parish became the oldest player ever to win the NBA championship.

Following the retirements of Udonis Haslem and Andre Iguodala shortly after the 2022–23 season,[7] the oldest active player is LeBron James.

This has led to more younger players entering the league directly after high school graduation.

Serbian Darko Miličić was the youngest player ever to play in an NBA Finals game.

The Pistons won the 2004 Finals and Miličić became the youngest player ever to win the NBA championship, being only five days away from his 19th birthday at the time.

Nineteen of them came to the league straight out of high school, while eight of them are international players who never played basketball in U.S. high schools or colleges before they entered the NBA, and four players, Devin Booker, Joshua Primo, Jalen Duren and GG Jackson played one year of college before entering the NBA all while remaining 18 years old throughout the process.