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5 players you forgot won a ring with Michael Jordan

By Brad Berreman

27 Dec 1997: Guard Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls confers with an official during a game against the Atlanta Hawks at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The Bulls won the game, 97-90. Mandatory Credit: Jonathan Daniel /Allsport
27 Dec 1997: Guard Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls confers with an official during a game against the Atlanta Hawks at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The Bulls won the game, 97-90. Mandatory Credit: Jonathan Daniel /Allsport /
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4. Luc Longley

For Minnesota Timberwolves fans, as the seventh overall pick in 1991 out of New Mexico, the 7-foot-2 Luc Longley lands on a long list of big draft misses. But in the middle of his third season in Minnesota (1993-94), he was traded to the Bulls in a deal that sent Stacey King the other way.

Longley started his time in Chicago without Jordan, who would return to the Bulls late in the 1994-95 season. But Longley was a prominent piece in each of the next three full seasons alongside Jordan, starting all 179 games he played over that span while accounting for more than  3.0 win shares in each season. His best season, and the best season of his career, came in 1997-98 (11.4 points and 5.9 rebounds per game). Of course, each of those three seasons ended in a championship before Jordan retired again.

Centers were always very interchangeable, complementary pieces for the Bulls during the Jordan era. Even among that nondescript group, it might be easiest to forget about Longley, who operated in such a bland way it’s also easy to forget he went 3-for-3 getting titles in full seasons with MJ.

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