Every NBA team’s greatest point guard of all time
By Nick Villano
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Cleveland Cavaliers — Mark Price
1986-1995
16.4 points per game
7.2 assists per game
2.6 rebounds per game
This one could go a lot of ways. Kyrie Irving brought the Cleveland Cavaliers the first championship in franchise history in the most epic fashion. World B. Free had some epic seasons late in his career. He was the best thing about those early 1980s Cavaliers teams. However, the easy answer is Mark Price, and sometimes the easy answer is the right answer.
Price is the ultimate sharpshooter. He was a great scorer from all across the court. He would be a superstar today. He often shot over 40 percent from 3 and 90 percent from the free-throw line. He even led the league in free throw percentage in 1992 and 1993. Price hit that magical 50-40-90 number in 1988-89. Only one player prior to Price hit that milestone, and that was Larry Bird.
Price was also famous for showing the league how to avoid the double team. Teams were trying to stop the pick and roll, and they would double team the point guard. Price would split the two players before they got to him, and he would get the ball to the center or the forward that started it all.
This is one of the best point guards of his era, and as time goes by, he’s become incredibly underrated. He held a lot of the Cavs franchise records before LeBron James took them over. He was a great shooter who had a knack for finding the open shooter. Go back and look at Mark Price. He was someone players could still learn about today.