When My Favorite NBA Players Entered the League By victoria.obergfell 1978 Larry Bird https://www.nba.com/history/legends/profiles/larry-bird 1984 Michael Jordan https://www.nba.com/history/legends/profiles/michael-jordan 1987 Scottie Pippen https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/pippesc01.html 1996 Ray Allen https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/allenra02.html 2016 Jamal Murray https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/murraja01.html