1989-90, Johnson averaged 22.5 points and 11.4 assists per game for the Phoenix Suns — which ended up being the best season of his career. In fact, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, David Robinson, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan experienced some … He played two seasons with the San Antonio Spurs, three with the Bulls where he won three NBA championships, and then one with the Los Angeles Lakers to round out the decade. He was a reserve that stole minutes all the time, giving others very beneficial bench time.So, even though he played more seasons than a majority of NBA players have in their careers, Greg Foster was still just a 3.9 points and 2.6 rebounds per game center that barely even blocked a shot during a game. He was 7'0" and dominated the paint while adding the ability to score 11.7 points per game. He was not picked in the top five so that he could be nothing more than mediocre for his entire career.Unless you are a fan of the North Carolina Tar Heels, you have no clue who this Pete Chilcutt guy is and why his name is appearing on this list. We have the 30 best NBA players of the 90s, sorted by Originally drafted in 1989 with the No. That Magic team was bad enough to land Shaquille O’Neal in the draft, which pushed Anderson into a role player but made Orlando one of the most exciting teams in the NBA.
Schrempf would excel for the Sonics, posting an absurd 51.4% from three-point range in 1994-95 and helping the team reach the NBA Finals in 1996. That season, he averaged 20.6 points and 7.1 assists per game. But he never gave up and continued to fight.
3 overall in 1994, developing into a star immediately and making the All-Star team in his rookie year. Kemp made six All-Star teams in the decade and averaged 16.7 points and 9.5 rebounds in eight years with the Sonics and two with the Cleveland Cavaliers.Historic rebounder Dennis Rodman is best known for his time with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s. and 1.2 blocks per game. 8 Mediocre NBA Players Who Are Jerks In Real Life And 7 Who Are Sweethearts.
He returned briefly in 2000.
He showed the ability to score and play defense while grabbing rebounds and blocking all kinds of shots. The best year of his career came in 1993-94, when he made his first All-Star team and had career bests with 15.1 points and 11.0 rebounds per game. He averaged 30.8 points, leading the NBA in scoring average seven times, and went out at Utah Jazz power forward Karl Malone gets all the way up to No.
He averaged 16.8 points and 7.4 rebounds in the decade.After seven seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers, including a trip to the NBA Finals in 1991, center Vlade Divac had the unfortunate distinction as being the player the Charlotte Hornets traded for Kobe Bryant.
He came into the league as a rookie in 1989-90 and averaged 23.4 points and 10.0 assists per game in his best season in 1991-92. He was a unique talent in the league at the time, a combination of a great shooter and great scorer that seems like he’d be a better fit in today’s game. For every inch taller than seven feet, you increase your chances of sticking around regardless of what you can do on the court.That brings us to our top pick in the list, the 7'1" giant from Wisconsin, Jim McIlvaine. Divac had a resurgence with the Kings, averaging 14.3 points, 10.0 rebounds, and 4.3 assists per game that year. His rookie season was great but then he started to battle the foot injury that would end up forcing him into an early retirement by 2001.Unlike the other big men on this list, Felton Spencer spent all four years in college improving year after year.
Eventually, he was dealt to the Indiana Pacers where he spent the final two years of the decade playing catch-and-shoot alongside Reggie Miller. Robinson averaged 24.4 points, 11.5 rebounds, and 3.4 blocks per game in the 1990s. Miller finished the decade with 21.0 points per game on 40.5% shooting from downtown, making it to the Eastern Conference Finals three times, but being unable to get to the NBA Finals until after the ‘90s were over.Shooting guard Clyde Drexler was so great, he was a big part of the reason that the Portland Trail Blazers passed on Michael Jordan in the 1984 draft. He’d made three trips to the finals in the decade, losing twice in Portland and then finally winning it all with the Houston Rockets in 1995. When he returned to the NBA, he was never the same.While at the University of North Carolina, Eric Montross was a beast. He helped the team reach the NBA Finals twice during the decade, representing just one of five teams to go to the finals more than once. A major part of the 1996 Sonics team, Hawkins averaged 15.6 points and 38.4% from the three-point range.
He wound up winning a second title that season and another in year three.For a power forward, all he could do was average 4.2 points and 3.6 rebounds per game for his career.Yinka Dare was a big guy from Nigeria that dominated his two seasons in college at George Washington University. If a player is going to be called the worst, he must have been useless to his team.We decided to narrow the search down to one decade, the 1990s. Blaylock still found his way to decent scoring averages while dishing out the assists. Hardaway finished the decade with averages of 19.4 points and 9.0 assists.Forward Detlef Schrempf was a unique talent playing for the Indiana Pacers and Seattle Supersonics in the 1990s. Only an All-Star once (in 1993-94 when the Knicks were Eastern Conference champions), Oakley finished out the decade with averages of 9.8 points and 9.8 rebounds. Never known as a great shooter, he finished the decade with shooting percentages of 41.3% overall and 33.7% from three-point range. It was almost like his ability to shoot the ball was getting harder and harder for him every year.