Throughout the years in the NBA there have been various players who flirted with success and/or were of big help to their team. However, after a while such players just fall under the radar. Some go from starting lineups to 12th-man. Such examples include: EDDIE GRIFFIN - young, promising player - athletic - had many monster games bewteen December and March of his rookie year - almost rallied the injury-depleted Rockets into beating the mighty Lakers with his play (blocking Shaq's shots, throwing down a backwards dunk, rebounding well) - waived by the Rockets in 2002 MOOCHIE NORRIS - used to be quick and a terrific bench player - former crowd favorite - used to be clutch OSCAR TORRES - had a couple of good games - at one point article was written about him: A New Star is Born in Houston MARC JACKSON -still may be half decent but was talked frequently about -received multi-million contract offers MILT PALACIO - clutch player - was on SportsCenter so many times for nailing miracle shots for Boston Celtics
Ike Austin, Most Improved Player for the 1996-97, signed a nice contract then put up nothing for the rest of his career.
Harold "Baby Jordan" Minor Isaih Rider (had some really good years but fell off the face of the earth)
Shawn Kemp? He was a solid 18/10 guy for a decade...Vin Baker made four straight all star appearances. Those are hardly one hit wonders... How about Phil Ford for the old timers...Rookie of the Year in 1979, out of the league at age 28... Kelvin Cato, anybody? He got a $40 million+ contract off of one single game...a PRE-SEASON game! Look up "contract year all star" in the dictionary and you'll find Erick Dampier's name. Who was that lanky ass white dude that got $60 million from Seattle just for being tall?
John Wallace John Amaechi Randy Livingston Last I checked EG played pretty decently for the Wolves last season (7.5ppg, 6.5rpg, 1.8bpg)
Mr. Mcllvaaaainnnee Ironically, the signing of this stiff helped push the fragile Kemp off the deep end. I think he was making more than Kemp.
The funny thing is... Jim Mcilvaine was never even any good! He was a no hit wonder! Seattle signed him to a huge contract after a 2.3ppg, 2.9rpg campaign in 95-96!
How about those guys that had one or two good seasons bombing from three point range but couldn't do anything else...Dee Brown, Dennis Scott, Nick Anderson...
Definetly Moochie. I remember him hitting like 4 game winners (all threes) in his first season with us. He was a good spark.
Jon Koncack. After one decent playoff series, the Pistons offered him more money than Michael Jordan was making at the time. The Hawks matched, and it took the team ~six seasons to get him off their roster and back to the morgue.
Willie Burton I remember this guy put up 53 one game, and had like a week where he was a scoring machine.
IIRC it had something to do with the amount of blocks that he had in limited action of the bench with New Jersey I believe, I guess the Sonics figured those numbers would increase if he got more playing time.
