Favorite forgotten NBA players from 80s and 90s

[prolific passer]

Mychal Thompson was a very good all around center in early days.

[penbeast0]

Tim Hardaway and Kevin Johnson are never mentioned among PG greats but they certainly were. Both gave Magic fits and both are great scoring and distributing. Near 20 and 10 for most of the 90s.

Timmy just got HOF nomination, congrats for picking a winner!

[DNice68]

Marques Johnson - Even with a few All-Star selections, this guy gets forgotten. He was the best player on those very early 80s MIL teams. Super underrated peak. Potentially a top-50 peak guy. Dude was

I don’t feel anyone picked in the 2022 hall of fame class except for maybe Hardaway is better than Marques Johnson. That includes Manu. I guess the Naismith Hall Of Fame being the ‘NBA Hall Of Fame’ only applies to Johnson!

[SinceGatlingWasARookie]

a player that impressed me a lot when i watched a celtics gamr is cedric maxwell, really good post scorer

Cedric is so underated. He lead the league in fg% twice will scoring about 18 points a game. He was a pesky offensive rebounder that was hard to box out because he would squirm arround people. Cedric could pass the ball and that showed in the 1981 finals (Finals MVP) and in the 1984 finals, best player in game 7.
In 1979 before Bird Maxwell was the onlything that made watching the Celtics tolerable.

Another guy seriously underrated is 1984 playoffs Bernard King who was scoring over 30 points a game at an incredibly high FG percentage.

[durantbird]

Greg Ostretag

[SinceGatlingWasARookie]

Greg Ostretag

I thought Ostertag did a good job on Shaq. Ostertag could hold his ground when Shaq shoulder slammed him.

[70sFan]

Greg Ostretag

I thought Ostertag did a good job on Shaq. Ostertag could hold his ground when Shaq shoulder slammed him.

I think Ostertag did the best job defending Shaq straight. Shaq usually was forced to take contested hooks and one handers against him, which made him relatively inefficient.

[MartinToVaught]

Loy Vaught was an absolute monster on the boards and his baseline jumper was smooth. I wish the Clippers would hire him as a coach to teach our current team how to rebound because they suck at it. I also loved Bison Dele, Eric Piatkowski, Brent Barry, and the man, the myth, the legend Keith Closs.

As far as non-Clippers go, Walt "The Wizard" Williams was way ahead of his time and would be coveted in today's league for his shooting, passing and handles.

[Buckets22]

From the ones still not named - Danny Fortson, Bob Sura, Jeff Foster, Keon Clark.

[BenoUdrihFTL]

SG was always my favorite position growing up, so some that I enjoyed watching who haven't been mentioned yet:

Isaiah Rider
Jimmy Jackson
Jeff Hornacek
Steve Smith
Nick Anderson
Voshon Lenard
Kendall Gill
Stacey Augmon

I think there's a total of 2 allstar games between the 8 of them but I followed their boxscores and even tried to emulate aspects of their games myself even tho my coaches always wanted me to play down low as a center lol

[penbeast0]

SG was always my favorite position growing up, so some that I enjoyed watching who haven't been mentioned yet:

Isaiah Rider
Jimmy Jackson
Jeff Hornacek
Steve Smith
Nick Anderson
Voshon Lenard
Kendall Gill
Stacey Augmon

I think there's a total of 2 allstar games between the 8 of them but I followed their boxscores and even tried to emulate aspects of their games myself even tho my coaches always wanted me to play down low as a center lol

Hard to believe anyone who liked Hornacek could also like J.R. Rider, lol. Couldn't stand Rider or Jimmy Jackson, liked Hornacek, Augmon, and Smith, was sort of neutral on Anderson, Gill, and Lenard.