For the first time in 17 seasons, no Alaskans are playing in the NBA – which isn't all that surprising, considering only three players from here have ever made it to basketball's highest level.

Two of the three remain involved in professional basketball, and the third hopes to return to action later this season.

Trajan Langdon of Anchorage, the man who put Alaska basketball on the radar, was Alaska's first NBA player. A 6-foot-4 shooting star at East High and Duke University, he was a Cleveland Cavaliers lottery pick but his career lasted a brief three seasons (1999-2002), cut short by his size and speed.

Then came Carlos Boozer of Juneau, a 6-foot-9 power forward who spent three seasons at Duke before going pro in 2002. He was a two-time NBA all-star who played 13 seasons for the Cavaliers, Utah Jazz, Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers. His spent the 2014-15 season – his last in the NBA – with the Lakers.

In 2008 – after winning an NCAA championship with Kansas – 6-foot-2 point guard Mario Chalmers began a seven-year career with the Miami Heat. The Bartlett High grad won two NBA titles with the Heat before being traded to the Memphis Grizzlies prior to last season. The Grizzlies waived him in March after he ruptured his Achilles tendon.

Where are they now? Still close to the game.

Langdon played in Europe for nearly a decade, spending seven successful seasons with Moscow CSKA in Russia. After he retired as a player he returned to the NBA as an executive.

Now 40, he became the assistant general manager of the Brooklyn Nets in March. Before that he spent three years in the front office with the San Antonio Spurs and one with the Cavs.

Boozer, who famously signed a $70 million, six-year deal with the Utah Jazz in 2004, recently signed with a team in the Chinese Basketball League.

He sat out all of last season after going unsigned as a free agent but is producing for the Guangdong Southern Tigers. In a win last week, the 35-year-old racked up 17 points and 15 rebounds.

Chalmers, 30, is still recovering from his injury. Earlier this month the Associated Press reported he is close to being medically cleared. He told the AP that he's getting calls from potential teams.