The worst five players in every franchises history.

Dave Jamerson

Thomas Hamilton

John Turner

Matt Maloney

 

Exactly. Stupidest list EVER. Matt Maloney? Starting point guard on a western conference finals team?! Ya right.

 

Cook, Armstrong, Maloney, Barret, and Ryan Bowen

 

Which is why the list should refer to the most useless players making enough money to prevent their team from going out and getting anyone better.

Mo Taylor would top my list for the Rockets.
Kelvin Cato wasn't as bad a player, but god that contract parlayed itself into a whole decade of capcripple.

Cato-->Juwan-->Mike James-->Bobby Jackson-->Ron Artest before it expired.

 

Luther Head was frustrating to watch during the regular season also. He was incredibly Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde throughout the season. If his shot was off, he was useless since undersized SGs that are inept at playing the PG are not much of help. He could not do a bounce pass to Yao to save his life.

 

The list is just lowest PER for people with 100+ games and 10+ minutes/game over the course of their career with the team. (There's also a "'Bruce Bowen Corollary' to exempt players who started for championship teams," in the author's words.)

Consequently, you can just use this Basketball Reference query for the Rockets.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/tiny.cgi?id=VlBSP

Or, you can look here (note that the years given refer to the end year of a season -- so Calvin Garrett played from 80-81 to 82-83):

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                                          Tota  Tota  Tota  Tota Tota Tota Tota Tota Tota Tota  Tota Tota Tota Tota Tota Tota  Tota Shoo Shoo Shoo          
Rk               Player From   To  Tm  Lg    G    MP    FG   FGA   3P  3PA   FT  FTA  ORB  DRB   TRB  AST  STL  BLK  TOV   PF   PTS  FG%  3P%  FT%   MP  PER
1        Calvin Garrett 1981 1983 HOU NBA  125  2530   297   668    4   14   69   90  115  250   365  211   82   16  131  265   667 .445 .286 .767 20.2  8.7
2           Larry Smith 1990 1992 HOU NBA  200  4023   279   568    0    3   36  116  589  828  1417  190  160   57  207  589   594 .491 .000 .310 20.1  9.7
3            Bryce Drew 1999 2000 HOU NBA  106  1734   205   542   75  212   53   61   26  109   135  214   53    5   97  140   538 .378 .354 .869 16.4  9.8
4             Phil Ford 1984 1985 HOU NBA  106  2310   250   517    2   19  114  135   31  133   164  471   65    9  152  276   616 .484 .105 .844 21.8  9.9
5          Wally Walker 1983 1984 HOU NBA  140  2863   480  1047    3   10   78  134  163  302   465  254   54   26  177  267  1041 .458 .300 .582 20.5 10.2
6        Terence Morris 2002 2003 HOU NBA  117  1742   193   465   22  110   29   42  117  222   339   89   29   44   74  107   437 .415 .200 .690 14.9 10.4
7          David Wesley 2005 2006 HOU NBA  125  4212   427  1059  189  506  246  300   50  271   321  360  120   14  179  362  1289 .403 .374 .820 33.7 10.5
8          Terry Teagle 1983 1993 HOU NBA  143  2349   482  1098   17   56  125  171  102  173   275  215   66   22  200  253  1106 .439 .304 .731 16.4 10.6
9            John Trapp 1969 1971 SDR NBA  177  3247   536  1280            233  321             868  192                 575  1305 .419      .726 18.3 10.6
10        Tom Henderson 1980 1983 HOU NBA  258  5472   581  1321    0    9  284  379  115  307   422 1025  200   17  350  395  1446 .440 .000 .749 21.2 10.7
11         Rick Adelman 1969 1970 SDR NBA  112  2165   273   696            199  295             297  351                 248   745 .392      .675 19.3 11.0
12         Matt Maloney 1997 1999 HOU NBA  175  4789   515  1229  281  742  146  182   37  275   312  543  148    6  243  231  1457 .419 .379 .802 27.4 11.0
13            Pat Riley 1968 1970 SDR NBA  172  2764   527  1338            258  391             346  359                 419  1312 .394      .660 16.1 11.0
14            Ron Riley 1974 1976 HOU NBA  178  3048   368   895            119  167  263  542   805  234  103   65       402   855 .411      .713 17.1 11.0
15      Bernie Williams 1970 1971 SDR NBA  128  1936   363   979            164  203             240  278                 200   890 .371      .808 15.1 11.0
16         Mike Woodson 1989 1991 HOU NBA  153  3356   591  1395   44  136  267  335   78  215   293  282  136   33  192  306  1493 .424 .324 .797 21.9 11.0
17          Major Jones 1980 1984 HOU NBA  327  4645   630  1298    1    9  253  437  470  725  1195  200  124  155  332  565  1514 .485 .111 .579 14.2 11.3
18         Billy Paultz 1980 1983 HOU NBA  240  4141   578  1235    0    3  178  357  311  692  1003  273   77  145  232  462  1334 .468 .000 .499 17.3 11.3
19         Jim Petersen 1985 1988 HOU NBA  293  6574   901  1798    1   13  429  588  515 1021  1536  347  131  228  426  827  2232 .501 .077 .730 22.4 11.3
20        Shane Battier 2007 2010 HOU NBA  289 10094   880  2074  488 1258  295  387  324 1018  1342  631  257  280  263  639  2543 .424 .388 .762 34.9 11.4

Worst careers for any team (I think -- I was just looking through each list):

1) John Amaechi, Jazz, 02-03
2) Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Nuggets, 03-05
3) John Duren, Jazz, 81-82
4t) Brian Scalabrine, Celtics, 06-10
4t) Red Holzman, Royals, 52-53

Trenton Hassell managed to top the list for both the Nets (08-10) and Bulls (02-03), but only finished fourth for the Timberwolves (04-07).

 

that's hilarious that 4 or 5 of those names on that PER list are/have been NBA coaches

 

Jordan
Kobe
LeBron
Hakeem
Russel

ewwwww

 

Jason Collier was pretty damn terrible.

Mike Wilks turned the ball over too much...

Stanley Roberts has to be in there, too.

 

Matt Maloney as a Rocket was better than Rod Strickland as a Rocket.

 

lol @ pat riley and rick adelman being terrible as Rockets

 

tim breaux
mark bryant
kennard winchester
terry teagle
eric riley

 

If you can remember them, they couldn't be that bad.

 

So maybe the worst player to have averaged more than a minute a game?

 

why is every1 hatin on matt maloney he was half way decent them some ofthe ****ers we've had

 

This is my list right here.

 

Ric Brunson?

 

are we talking useless benchwarmers, or players that did their absolute utmost to make the team suck, or in some cases both (The Franchise)

 

Joey Dorsey

Loren Woods

 

oscar torres