Championship enforcer- In 1995, the 38-year-old Jones signed a 10-day contract with the Houston Rockets and unexpectedly played a key role in the team’s championship run. He helped contain David Robinson in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals, harassing him into an awful shooting performance and boxing him out at the buzzer, preserving Houston’s win. Then in the N.B.A. finals, he was back to his bread and butter, serving as a one-man Shaquille O’Neal fouling machine. “The one thing I can do is try to hold him, stay in his way and make it tough,” Jones told The Baltimore Sun before the series. “At least in order for him to get to the basket, he’d have to run over me. Hopefully, he won’t break anything.” In four games, Jones piled up 15 fouls and just 4 points, earning a championship ring for his effort.
I am bumping my own post. Because that is what Charles Jones would have done. How can you not list a guy with more fouls than points?
I’ll never forget the time Royce White looked like he wanted to kill some dude in a SUMMER LEAGUE GAME. I said, that guy is nuts. Little did I know.
