Player who was purely defense

[sisibilio]

Jason Collins.

[Rich Michmond]

T.R. Dunn was a very good defender and an underrated rebounder. He played the lion's share of his career on some whacky Denver teams with guys like an old Dan Issel at C or Kiki Vandeweghe at PF. Indubitably, their pace was often the highest in the league.
Despite these factors, he averaged about 5 points per game. Boy, was he offensively inept.

[UcanUwill]

Jason Collins.

He wasnt even that great of the defender, just a fouling machine. Guy was just good at boxing out and setting screens. No skill, he really need to thank Shaq and prime Dwight, they were the main reason Collins stuck around that long, teams wanted that big body to throw at that particular match up.

[nomansland]

Biyombo, birdman

Haven't watched Birdman in a couple of years but when he was with Denver his primary role was offensive garbageman. Clean up the bad shots and put them back. He was never all that great of a man defender either; 1 out of 2 times he'd fall for upfakes.

[TroubleS0me]

Joel Anthony

[LLJ]

Shawn Bradley

Fake defensive only player (actually useless): Michael Curry

[Trippinskarlo]

Marcus Smart unfortunetly

[Xsy]

I hold my breath every time Rudy Gobert tries to do anything on the offensive end that isn't a dunk.

Dante Exum, at this point of his career, is also pretty much only good for his speed and length.

[Berserk_Raptor]

Sefolosha?

[Kevin Johnson]

[Jack Dempsey]

I'd nominate Manute Bol. Great shotblocker....just okay rebounder. No real skills on offense.

Actually I remember him hitting some 3s but I doubt he did it on a high percentage though.

[TigerInYourTank]

Justise Winslow

If being able to hit an occasional 3 at a high rate doesn't disqualify: Shane Battier

[Mylie10]

Mutombo of course.

[airaaron32]

Only one mention of Tony Allen... ridiculous.

[Stern]

Tony Allen was scoring in Dec 06 and Jan 07; before injuring his knee on a dunk attempt on a dead play. He's not the same after that.

Had him on my fantasy team at that time.

[GimmeDat]

Chuck Hayes, Joel Anthony, Andre Roberson and Kendrick Perkins are a few that come to mind in the current NBA.

[Liqourish]

This should be called the Tony Allen thread

Before Tony Allen, there was a beast named Ben Wallace.

[Liqourish]

4X Defensive Player of the Year and robbed the year Artest won it because Carlisle whined to the voters even though Ben Wallace had historic defensive numbers that season.

[Uncle Mxy]

Mutombo of course.

Mutombo was the lead scorer on his team as a rookie. Like Rodman, he started out having more offensive focus, but ended up not caring too much about offense in favor of defense.