Drexler in the 90s : 20.9 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 5.7 APG. The best year of his career came in 1993-94, when he made his first All-Star team and had career bests with 15.1 points and 11.0 rebounds per game. The National Basketball Association also known as NBA is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world and it is the major men's professional basketball league in North America. In the two-year hiatus for Jordan, it was Olajuwon that ruled the NBA. Playing nearly the entire decade for the Chicago Bulls, Pippen won six championships alongside Michael Jordan and head coach Phil Jackson. In the first four years of the decade, Mullin averaged over 25 points per game every single year and made four All-Star teams.

One of the more reliable and consistent players of the 1990s was power forward Horace Grant. Hornacek played for the Phoenix Suns in the first few years of the ‘90s, averaging 20.1 points on 51.2% shooting and 43.9% from three-point range in 1991-92. Some may be confused to see Chicago Bulls guard Michael Jordan not at the top spot on this list, but it’s actually a credit to his greatness that he finished as high as No. Robinson in the 90s: 24.4 PPG, 11.5 RPG, 3.4 Blks PG. And then you have Basketball Twitter, which feels like some sort of twisted amalgamation of all the Twitters put together. Ewing made eight All-Star teams and averaged 24.1 points and 11.0 rebounds per game, staying healthy for the most part until he had to miss a massive chunk of the 1997-98 season due to injury. @sports.

Perhaps that's putting too much stock into fairly arbitrary back-end award voting, but I do think it's telling that even on good Pacers teams that consistently won, Miller was still not viewed as a top-15 player by those covering the league at the time. 3.

O'Neal in the 90s: 27.1 PPG, 12.2, 57.8 FG pct. Some I excluded because I forgot them.

Miller finished the decade with 21.0 points per game on 40.5% shooting from downtown, making it to the Eastern Conference Finals three times, but being unable to get to the NBA Finals until after the ‘90s were over. His best season came in 1989-90, when Malone averaged 31.0 points and 11.1 rebounds per game. Just last week, we unearthed a bunch of trade ideas that NBA fans were making that new Philadelphia 76ers president Daryl Morey could consider in his position. A quick note: There are some people I excluded from the list because their peak came in the ’00s (Kobe, Iverson, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan) and some because their peak came in the ’80s (Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas). Ewing was the coolest Knick in the 90s, however …. The 1990s are what many people consider to be the glory years of NBA basketball. The Fab Five were cool, the baggy shorts were cool, I mean, Webber made Sacramento cool. Mutombo led the league in blocks per game three times in the ‘90s and finished the decade with an average of 3.6 blocks per game to go along with 12.9 points and 12.1 rebounds. We put it to our global NBA.com team to rank their top 15 players from the 1990s and left it purposely vague and open to interpretation. Only an All-Star once (in 1993-94 when the Knicks were Eastern Conference champions), Oakley finished out the decade with averages of 9.8 points and 9.8 rebounds. Clyde had a cool nickname and was the king of Oregon for a few years, but I never really bought into his coolness, and MJ kinda destroyed him there in that ’92 Finals. He led the Magic to the NBA Finals in 1995 after taking out Jordan, Pippen and the Bulls in the playoffs before ultimately falling short against Olajuwon's Rockets. Kemp’s celebration after this dunk might be the single coolest thing ever done on a basketball floor. That is, until he returned in 2001 with the Washington Wizards. Historic rebounder Dennis Rodman is best known for his time with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s. Dumars was sort of the linking figure between two gold ages of the Pistons, but he was also a very cool guy. Twitter is a very weird corner of the internet, full of a countless number of lanes. ); tech 14 …

There's Football Twitter, ForEx Twitter, Academic Twitter, Tech Twitter, Weird Twitter. I remember watching this dunk on my VHS copy of NBA Superstars 2 and screaming. Since then, however, something changed: Per The Athletic's Shams Charania, he's told the Sixers are interested in Rockets star James Harden, although he also said it's a "non-starter" for Houston. A first-place vote was worth 15 points, a second-place worth 14 points, a third-place vote worth 13 points and continuing all the way down to one point for a 15th-place vote. He finished the decade with averages of 13.0 points and 9.0 rebounds. He still finished 11th in MVP voting that season. The biggest highlight of the decade would likely be when his Nuggets upset the top-seeded Seattle Sonics in the first round of the 1994 NBA playoffs. The coolest player of the ’90s that wasn’t the most universally adored pro basketball player of all time, Penny Hardaway was a hero to a younger generation who just missed out on the beginning of Jordan Mania. Michael Jordan was in his prime (despite taking off almost two full seasons in the middle of the decade), while other great players such as Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, Shaquille O’Neal, and Reggie Miller were doing work with their respective teams. 2 because of greatness and durability. The Bulls were so cool and so good in the ’90s that even the guys who weren’t stars became cool by association. All rights reserved. How much does postseason success factor in?

Earlier this year, former NBA guard Delonte West was homeless and going through an unfathomably difficult period in his life. His best year came in 1994-95 with the Atlanta Hawks, when he averaged 17.2 points and 7.7 assists per game to go along with 2.5 steals per game. “The Glove” is an unbelievably cool nickname, and Payton managed to look cool setting up all of Kemp’s dunks, which is sort of unbelievable if you think about it. Ewing finished either fourth or fifth in MVP voting five times in the 90s which perhaps sheds more light on his overall stature in the league than one might guess based off the lone All-NBA First Team nod. Nuggets upset the top-seeded Seattle Sonics. B.J. He finished third in MVP season and received seven first-place votes which signalled league-wide respect as a bonafide star. He made seven All-Star teams in the 1990s, averaging 23.9 points, 11.6 rebounds, and 3.5 blocks per game during the decade. The Bulls were so cool and so good in the ’90s that even the guys who weren’t stars became cool by association. gear 20 on now. By using NBA sites, you are agreeing to our revised :privacyPolicy and :termsOfUse, including our :cookiePolicy"}; © Copyright 2020 Endgame360 Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Center Shaquille O’Neal played seven seasons in the ‘90s, the first four coming with the Orlando Magic and the final three with the Los Angeles Lakers.