Rasheed Wallace on the Hawks and the NBA’s best 1-game stints
Atlanta Hawks legend Rasheed Wallace?! Yes, it happened! The Over & Back Podcast explores NBA stars who had 1-game stints on teams.
The Over & Back Classic NBA Podcast tackles a fun topic this week as we look at former all-stars/award winners who only appeared in just one game for a team.
Players and stints include:
- Rasheed Wallace‘s one-game with the Atlanta Hawks, the breakup of the Portland Trail Blazers and Rasheed’s eventual trade to the Detroit Pistons where he would win his one and only NBA championship.
- Andrew Bogut‘s infamous one-game with the Cleveland Cavaliers which lasted less than one minute before he fractured his tibia.
- Jamal Crawford finishing his NBA career with a one-game stint on the Orlando bubble Brooklyn Nets.
- Bob Rule‘s unfortunate what if career, his hot start in Seattle and the circumstances of his Achilles tear and his inability to get back to All-Star level.
- Jump shot innovator Kenny Sailors who — as part of the BAA dispersal draft — played exactly one game with the Chicago Stags before being sold to the defending champion Philadelphia Warriors.
- George Carter, an all-star with the ABA’s Virginia Squires, plays exactly one NBA game with the team that drafted him (Detroit Pistons) before leaving the team and the league to serve in the Army and play in the ABA.
- Tom Chambers carved out a great career with the Seattle Supersonics and Phoenix Suns before bouncing around in the final years of his career including an uneventful one-game run with the 1998 Philadelphia 76ers.
- One of the players black-balled from the NBA because of a bribing controversy Tony Jackson was an early pioneer of the three-point shot in the ABL and ABA who thrives in the fledgling league before falling out of love with the game and retiring early.
- When the expansion New Orleans Jazz acquired “Pistol” Pete Maravich, they wanted his old Atlanta Hawks running mate Walt Bellamy and they got him… for one game.
- Last but not least, Steve Mix who played in only one game for TWO different NBA franchises: Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Rockets.
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