List of NBA players with most championships
This is a list of NBA players with most championships won as a player. The National Basketball Association is a major professional basketball league in North America. It was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America. The league adopted its current name at the start of the when it merged with the National Basketball League. The NBA Finals is the championship series for the NBA and the conclusion of the sport's postseason. The winning team of the series receives the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy. Players from the winning team usually receive championship rings from the team honoring their contribution, with "rings" becoming shorthand for championships. However, in some rare occasion, the teams opted to give other commemorative items, such as wrist watches, instead of rings. The number of championships won by NBA superstars is often used as a measurement of their greatness.
Boston Celtics center Bill Russell holds the record for the most NBA championships won with 11 titles during his 13-year playing career. He won his first championship with the Boston Celtics in his rookie year. Afterwards, he went on to win ten championships in the next 12 years, including eight consecutive championships from 1959 to 1966. He won the last two championships in 1968 and 1969 as player-coach. Russell's teammate, Sam Jones, won ten championships from 1959 to 1969, the second most in NBA history. Four Celtics players, Tom Heinsohn, K. C. Jones, Satch Sanders and John Havlicek, won eight championships each, with Havlicek being the only one to win championships independently of Russell. Two other Celtics, Jim Loscutoff and Frank Ramsey, won seven championships each.
Robert Horry also won seven championships. Four players, Bob Cousy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, won six championships each. Jordan and Pippen are members of the Chicago Bulls team who won three consecutive championships twice in the 1990s. George Mikan won two championships in the NBL before it merged with the BAA to form the NBA, and won five championships in the NBA. No active player has won four or more championships, but several players have won three.
Robert Horry and John Salley are the only players to have won championships with three teams. Horry won seven championships: two with the Houston Rockets, three with the Los Angeles Lakers and another two with San Antonio Spurs. Salley's four NBA titles came via two championships with the Detroit Pistons and one each with the Bulls and the Lakers. Horry is also the only non-Celtic to win more than six times. Frank Saul, Steve Kerr, Patrick McCaw, and Chris Boucher are the only players to win two championships with two teams in consecutive seasons. Saul won consecutive championships with the Rochester Royals and the Minneapolis Lakers in the 1950s, Kerr won consecutive championships with the Bulls and the Spurs in the 1990s, McCaw and Boucher with the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors in 2018 and 2019. Both Saul and Kerr were NBA champions four years in a row, each having participated in three-peats, Saul with the Lakers and Kerr with the Bulls.
The table below shows only players with four or more championships, and hence leaves out all currently actively players. There are seven active players with three rings: Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, and Klay Thompson won all 3 with the Golden State Warriors; Udonis Haslem won all 3 with the Miami Heat; and LeBron James and Patrick McCaw won with two different teams.
List
| Rank | Player | Pos | Seasons played | Total won | Championship teams | Ref. |
| 1 | * | C | 13 | 11 | Boston Celtics | |
| 2 | * | G | 12 | 10 | Boston Celtics | |
| 3 | * | F | 9 | 8 | Boston Celtics | |
| 3 | * | G | 9 | 8 | Boston Celtics | |
| 3 | * | F | 13 | 8 | Boston Celtics | |
| 3 | * | F/G | 16 | 8 | Boston Celtics | |
| 7 | F | 9 | 7 | Boston Celtics | ||
| 7 | * | F/G | 9 | 7 | Boston Celtics | |
| 7 | F | 16 | 7 | Houston Rockets Los Angeles Lakers San Antonio Spurs | ||
| 10 | * | G | 14 | 6 | Boston Celtics | |
| 10 | * | C | 20 | 6 | Milwaukee Bucks Los Angeles Lakers | |
| 10 | * | G | 15 | 6 | Chicago Bulls | |
| 10 | * | F | 17 | 6 | Chicago Bulls | |
| 14 | * | C | 7 | 5 | Minneapolis Lakers | |
| 14 | * | F/C | 7 | 5 | Minneapolis Lakers | |
| 14 | * | G | 11 | 5 | Minneapolis Lakers St. Louis Hawks | |
| 14 | G | 9 | 5 | Boston Celtics | ||
| 14 | * | G | 14 | 5 | Boston Celtics | |
| 14 | G/F | 12 | 5 | Los Angeles Lakers | ||
| 14 | * | G | 13 | 5 | Los Angeles Lakers | |
| 14 | * | F | 14 | 5 | Detroit Pistons Chicago Bulls | |
| 14 | G | 15 | 5 | Chicago Bulls Los Angeles Lakers | ||
| 14 | G | 15 | 5 | Chicago Bulls San Antonio Spurs | ||
| 14 | * | G | 20 | 5 | Los Angeles Lakers | |
| 14 | G | 18 | 5 | Los Angeles Lakers | ||
| 14 | * | F/C | 19 | 5 | San Antonio Spurs | |
| 28 | * | F/C | 10 | 4 | Minneapolis Lakers | |
| 28 | G/F | 6 | 4 | Rochester Royals Minneapolis Lakers | ||
| 28 | * | G | 11 | 4 | Boston Celtics | |
| 28 | F | 4 | 4 | Boston Celtics | ||
| 28 | * | G/F | 12 | 4 | Golden State Warriors Los Angeles Lakers | |
| 28 | F | 14 | 4 | Los Angeles Lakers | ||
| 28 | * | C | 21 | 4 | Boston Celtics Chicago Bulls | |
| 28 | C | 13 | 4 | Chicago Bulls San Antonio Spurs | ||
| 28 | F/C | 11 | 4 | Detroit Pistons Chicago Bulls Los Angeles Lakers | ||
| 28 | F/C | 17 | 4 | Chicago Bulls Los Angeles Lakers | ||
| 28 | * | C | 19 | 4 | Los Angeles Lakers Miami Heat | |
| 28 | G | 16 | 4 | San Antonio Spurs | ||
| 28 | G | 17 | 4 | San Antonio Spurs |