The forgotten ballers of the 90's game

[Swish]

may be breaking the All Star and/or 80's rule rule here

Steve Smith
Gerald Wilkins
Craig Ehlo

/racking brain for people Jordan smashed in Come Fly With Me and Playground, and other NBA VHS memories

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Chris Mills
Calbert Cheaney
Shawn Bradley
Lindsey Hunter
Rick Fox
Eric Snow
Rod Strickland
Jamal Mashburn
Tom Gugliotta
Jimmy Jackson
Jalen Rose
Doug Christie
Christian Laettner
Oliver Miller
Damon Stoudamire
Donyell Marshall

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

I should add, I worked in trading card shop in Geelong in the boom years of the NBA in the 90's so i feel like i have an unfair advantage.

 

[Stiffy_18]

Rick Smits
Derrick McKey
David Wesley
Matt Greiger
Popeye Jones
Bobby Phills (RIP)
Otis Thorpe
Jamal Mashburn

 

[Look2Me4Guidance]

Chris Mills
Calbert Cheaney
Shawn Bradley
Lindsey Hunter
Rick Fox
Eric Snow
Rod Strickland
Jamal Mashburn
Tom Gugliotta
Jimmy Jackson
Jalen Rose
Doug Christie
Christian Laettner
Oliver Miller
Damon Stoudamire
Donyell Marshall

Eliminated. Did he best work in the 00's.

 

[peternorth]

Chris Mills
Calbert Cheaney
Shawn Bradley
Lindsey Hunter
Rick Fox
Eric Snow
Rod Strickland
Jamal Mashburn
Tom Gugliotta
Jimmy Jackson
Jalen Rose
Doug Christie
Christian Laettner
Oliver Miller
Damon Stoudamire
Donyell Marshall

Eliminated. Did he best work in the 00's.

i think snow worked his magic in the 00's too. i stand to be corrected.
a really good list however ASMS!

has anyone said shawn respert? how about todd day?

i remember watching oprah once (uni days). topic was heroes and underprivileged kids wanting to meet theirs. anyway, one kid loved a PG from either the wolves or bucks (was a lottery pick). i remember at the time lolling cause the player was a hack.

cant remember who.

 

[PokerPies]

Harold '"Baby Jordan" Miner
Larry Krystowiak??
Mookie Blaylock
Greg Ostertag

Bump for Mookie, check these stats:

Ranks 15th all-time in career in 3 point field goals made(1,283).
Ranks 26th all-time in career assists (5,972)
Ranks 11th all-time in career steals (2075).

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Eliminated. Did he best work in the 00's.

I didn't read the rules as saying they had to have played their best in that time.

Which is why I threw Marshall in as he'd be close to having played half his games in the 90's given he hardly played a game in his last 3 seasons.

Snow played around 5-6 years in the 90's too If i remember rightly.

 

[Portmanteau]

Sedale Threatt
Joe Kleine

 

[wotdoiput]

Wow the amount of duds being named is certainly high.

 

[Deledio2Conca]

Michael Dickerson
Larry Johnson's "Grand ma ma"

[youtube]VwGnE3bnYkA[/youtube]

 

[peternorth]

Rules:

- Naming a guy with cult hero status (like Majele, Larry Johnson, Oakley etc) is a ban.

Michael Dickerson
Larry Johnson's "Grand ma ma"

enjoy ur ban

PS: nice sig!

 

[Osmodiar]

Ah the good ol days If only I could find all my old basketball cards.. From Houston!

Kenny "The Jet" Smith
Vernon Maxwell

Edit: Oops, completely missed about 5 pages...that counts out those two guys.... ummm, Otis Thorpe? lol

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Larry was also an All-Star more than once.

 

[frantelle]

If it wasn't for NBA hangtime and NBA Jam I would have no idea who any of these guys are

 

[Jimmy_the_Gent]

John Starkes?

Probably too much of a cult hero in New York.



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Horace Grant too, although I bet someone already mentioned him.

 

[Vegas.]

Michael Jordan.

 

[sblack]

Michael Jordan.

Who?

 

[Vegas.]

Who?

Exactly.

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Ervin "Not Magic" Johnson

 

[AndSmithMustScore]

Cherokee Parks had one of the coolest names of the time.

 

[haterade]

Bobby Hurley
Christian Laetner

 

[peternorth]

adam keefe*







* may not be a 90s player as his legacy will always live on

 

[peternorth]

greg foster*


* see post 74

 

[Brad Goodman]

We've clearly opened the floodgates for duds, so I'll rack my brain for hacks I had basketball cards of:

Pete Chilcutt
Donald Royal
Donald Hodge
Jeff Turner (more 80's though)
Tom Hammonds
Steve Scheffler
Keith Closs