Age Of Nba Players. Only a few players have managed to play past the age of 40. Who are the oldest players in the nba going into this season.
All of the players on this list are technically at retirement age or very close and some of them do plan on leaving the nba soon while others show no signs of slowing down. Oldest players in the nba 11. In fact out of the 4000 players who have ever played in the nba only 27 continued playing when they were 40.
While there have been times when the prime nba player age has gone up a little bit those seasons have been exceedingly rare.
This is a list of oldest and youngest national basketball association players the national basketball association nba is a men s professional basketball league in north america. Oldest players in the nba 11. The data that indicates nba players are in their prime dates all the way back to the 1946 47 nba season. The average retirement age for an nba player is in the mid thirties 36 39 years.