In a very tough international competitive arena today, ”Sports showing National power” has become a common consensus. However, in the field of basketball sport, how basketball trainers are able to appropriately select and cultivate an outstanding basketball player based on players' characteristic properties actually becomes one of the urgent issues in developing the basketball sport. After reviewing related published literatures, this article summarizes two outstanding characteristics of basketball players. These characteristics are the physical characteristics and the psychological characteristics. The physical characteristic can further be divided into essential factor properties of the upper limbs, the muscle strength, the flexibility, the height and body types, the speed and etc. Furthermore, because basketball scoring, a necessary winning characteristics based on a stable shooting is the key to win the game, the psychological characteristics based on a stable shooting is the key to win the game, the psychological characteristics such as a positive and an optimistic attitudes will affect the vita playing level of players in a game. The author looks forward to that his summarized conclusion can be a reference for training and selecting future basketball players.