Prime Greg Buckner

[MMyhre]

Had more WS/48 than Kobe Bryant in 04/05. Legend (I dont know who he was or how this happened lol).

[Invictus88]

Prime Fennis Dembo.

He had -0.1 WS for his career.

[-Luke-]

Prime Fennis Dembo.

He had -0.1 WS for his career.

He's probably the all-time leader in no. of nicknames on bb-ref / minutes played ratio.

Minutes played in the NBA: 74
Nicknames: 4 (Buck, Electric Man, Fabulous, Dazzling Dude)

[BrianInPhilly]

The 2000's was littered with defender wings just like him; every team had a couple. I was a huge Mavs fan in the 2000's and it was crazy how they rotated very very similar wings every single year that whole time period ... Buckner, Adrian Griffin, Quinton Ross, Antoine Wright, Trenton Hassell, etc. culminating with Deshawn Stevenson in the 2011 team.

Those guys were all super gritty, my favorite type of role player. Nowadays teams prefer guys with more ball skills / perimeter shooting in those spots. The offensive talent in the league is insane right now even compared to 20 years ago.

[JRoy]

Prime Fennis Dembo.

He had -0.1 WS for his career.

He could play with both hands.

He was amphibious.

[MMyhre]

I really liked Jodie Meeks as I watched the 09-10 season, I dont know why. He had a smooth jumpshot and could score in bursts as a 2nd round pick. I think it was just the underdog going on scoring bursts that intrigued me. He peaked at almost 16 ppg on a nice 60,1 TS %. And apparently has 188 000 followers on IG... Lakers fans man

[Hornet Mania]

I really liked Jodie Meeks as I watched the 09-10 season, I dont know why. He had a smooth jumpshot and could score in bursts as a 2nd round pick. I think it was just the underdog going on scoring bursts that intrigued me. He peaked at almost 16 ppg on a nice 60,1 TS %. And apparently has 188 000 followers on IG... Lakers fans man

He's also in the Kentucky Wildcats Hall of Fame, so he's pulling support from two massive fan bases.

I liked Meeks too back in the day both in college and the pros. Really fun to watch when he got it going.

[MMyhre]

Prime Fennis Dembo.

He had -0.1 WS for his career.

I am not going to google and cheat, but will find a more obscure player.

This has to be a Heat player - I was gonna say Dorell Wright but he did decent and has some of the weirdest scoring patterns on the 76ers, being below 40 % fg as an very athletic and long wing wing, yes he took a lot of threes but he used to dunk like crazy on the Heat - how do you suck so much at layups?? He is like the Joel Anthony of wings with a 3 ball apparently.

Daequan Cook! Thats someone I did not have to cheatgoogle for, who remembers him? I really liked him because he could hit threes when the Heat sucked. And then he couldnt. Party lifestyle in Miami?

[MMyhre]

I really liked Jodie Meeks as I watched the 09-10 season, I dont know why. He had a smooth jumpshot and could score in bursts as a 2nd round pick. I think it was just the underdog going on scoring bursts that intrigued me. He peaked at almost 16 ppg on a nice 60,1 TS %. And apparently has 188 000 followers on IG... Lakers fans man

He's also in the Kentucky Wildcats Hall of Fame, so he's pulling support from two massive fan bases.

I liked Meeks too back in the day both in college and the pros. Really fun to watch when he got it going.

I remember him getting steals and just trying to score. No creation, no fancy ****. Jodie maybe steal ball. Jodie try score. Thats it.

[MMyhre]

Prime Fennis Dembo.

He had -0.1 WS for his career.

He's probably the all-time leader in no. of nicknames on bb-ref / minutes played ratio.

Minutes played in the NBA: 74
Nicknames: 4 (Buck, Electric Man, Fabulous, Dazzling Dude)

What a trivia to have. Who was the "Dazzling Dude"? Surely its Magic Johnson? Luka Doncic..? Dwyane Wade? Allen Iverson? Or just one raw.. Fennis Dembo.

[Ken Bannister]

Prime Michael Curry

[bkkrh]

Earl Barron, joined a horrible Knicks team on a 10 day contract at the end of a horrible season as an undrafted 28 year old journeyman that had spent most of his career to this point in the D League.

Had 10 points and 6 rebounds in 18 minutes in his first game against the Clippers and the Knicks won. He started his 2nd game against the Rondo-Allen-Pierce-Garnett Celtics, put up 17 points and 18 rebounds and the Knicks won again. He played 7 games in total before the season was over. He got a bit of a cult following with some fans, each offseason "we gotta sign Earl Barron again" became a topic while his career continued exactly as before on other teams.

We signed him again 3 seasons later at the end of the season, he played exactly one game and put up 11 points and again 18 rebounds.

In a way it´s kinda funny. He played 140 games in the league on 7 different teams and he averaged his career high in rebounds twice, both times for the Knicks, in 2 different seasons, despite only playing 8 games in total for us.

[MaxKunitz]

Why is nobody in here discussing Greg Buckner??? Haha, but I remember him as that typical player that made me wonder what exactly he did to become a several year nba player. Could someone enlighten me, i suppose it was his defense?

[DBurks2818]

Why is nobody in here discussing Greg Buckner??? Haha, but I remember him as that typical player that made me wonder what exactly he did to become a several year nba player. Could someone enlighten me, i suppose it was his defense?

He was known as a tough guard defender in the era where teams played with one perimeter defensive specialist (usually *only* a 3 and D guy at best) whose only job was to guard the Kobes, Wades, T-Macs, etc. I always wanted him to join the Heat back in the mid-2000s for that reason.

[chrbal]

Earl Barron.

In a way it´s kinda funny. He played 140 games in the league on 7 different teams and he averaged his career high in rebounds twice, both times for the Knicks, in 2 different seasons, despite only playing 8 games in total for us.

And he played like 40-45 games in one season with the Heat

It was crazy because he seemed to be so many teams 16th man. He kept joining teams but barely ever played. I followed Charlotte for 4-5 years when they got a team back, and in spite of always needing any depth (as well as signing him once) he never played for them and I remember finding that odd

I forgot about his Knicks “career”.

[bkkrh]

Earl Barron.

In a way it´s kinda funny. He played 140 games in the league on 7 different teams and he averaged his career high in rebounds twice, both times for the Knicks, in 2 different seasons, despite only playing 8 games in total for us.

And he played like 40-45 games in one season with the Heat

It was crazy because he seemed to be so many teams 16th man. He kept joining teams but barely ever played. I followed Charlotte for 4-5 years when they got a team back, and in spite of always needing any depth (as well as signing him once) he never played for them and I remember finding that odd

I forgot about his Knicks “career”.

I took a trip down memory lane and actually looked for highlights of his Celtics game. I had totally forgotten that he pretty much scored almost all points with mid range jumpers.

Watch on YouTube

It´s so funny to read the comments.

how in the world did the knicks not sign this guy?? Mozgov?? You kidding me?

Give him the MLE. He has proven his worth.

Yall watching this because we just signed him haha!! LETS GO KNICKS, PLAYOFF RUN 2013!!!!!!

knicks better resign him before labor day we need him he can make a tripple doubld for each game.

That makes you really remember how messed up the Knicks were back then when a 2 minute long highlight real of one meaningless game of a player that most Basketball fans never even heard of has more than 36.000 views .

[chrbal]

Why is nobody in here discussing Greg Buckner??? Haha, but I remember him as that typical player that made me wonder what exactly he did to become a several year nba player. Could someone enlighten me, i suppose it was his defense?

He was known as a tough guard defender in the era where teams played with one perimeter defensive specialist (usually *only* a 3 and D guy at best) whose only job was to guard the Kobes, Wades, T-Macs, etc. I always wanted him to join the Heat back in the mid-2000s for that reason.

This

As well as, for the era he was really effective so the sixers gave him something like a 5 or 6 year contract. He showed some improvement with Philly but they cut him in 2004 and ate the rest of his contract.