Cameroonian NBA Players: Every Player Born in Cameroon (2026-27)
All 4 players on an NBA roster this season who were born in Cameroon.
Updated Oct 16, 2026 · rosters as of the 2026-27 preseason
- Players
- 4
- Average height
- 6'11"
- Average age
- 28
- Teams represented
- 3 of 30
- Tallest
- Joel Embiid (7'0")
- Shortest
- Pascal Siakam (6'8")
- Oldest
- Joel Embiid (32)
- Youngest
- Yves Missi (22)
Birthplace, not citizenship. These lists group players by the country they were born in, which is what the public roster data records. A player born in one country may hold another nationality, may have grown up elsewhere, and may represent a different country internationally.
4 NBA players on 2026-27 rosters were born in Cameroon, spread across 3 franchises. The group is made up almost entirely of big men — 3 centers and 1 forward — giving it one of the tallest positional profiles of any birth-country list on the site.
The players were born in just 2 Cameroonian cities: Douala and Yaounde. Joel Embiid, born Mar 16, 1994, in Yaounde, is the oldest of the group at 32; Yves Missi, also born in Yaounde, is the youngest at 22.
Think you'd know these players from their team, height, age and jersey number alone?
Play Guess-the-Player with only players born in Cameroon →| Player | Team | Pos | Ht | Age | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Christian Koloko
|
New Orleans Pelicans
|
C | 6'11" | 26 | Douala, Cameroon |
Joel Embiid
|
Philadelphia 76ers
|
C | 7'0" | 32 | Yaounde, Cameroon |
Pascal Siakam
|
Indiana Pacers
|
F | 6'8" | 32 | Douala, Cameroon |
Yves Missi
|
New Orleans Pelicans
|
C | 6'11" | 22 | Yaounde, Cameroon |
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Heights and Ages Across the Group
The range runs from Pascal Siakam's 6'8" up to Joel Embiid's 7'0", with Christian Koloko and Yves Missi both standing 6'11". Siakam (#43, Indiana Pacers) and Embiid (#21, Philadelphia 76ers) share the same age of 32, while Missi (#21, New Orleans Pelicans) at 22 is a full decade younger than either of them. Koloko (#35, New Orleans Pelicans) is 26.
Colleges That Produced This Group
Three different universities are represented among the players who attended college in the United States: Kansas (Embiid), New Mexico State (Siakam), Baylor (Missi), and Arizona (Koloko). No single school produced more than 1 player on this list.
Where These Players Fit League-Wide
Across the full 2026-27 NBA, 120 players were born outside the United States, representing 46 countries of birth. The 4 players born in Cameroon account for a small but positionally distinctive slice of that international total, with centers predominating in a way that's uncommon among birth-country groups of this size.