![]() He also started at point guard from 1998 to 2000, albeit for some terrible Tim Floyd-coached Bulls teams. Although we originally chose not to list any third-stringers, Brown is the exception – playing second-string minutes behind Ron Harper and Steve Kerr, he was the latter’s antithesis as a guy who couldn’t shoot, but could steal the ball and be a general nuisance to opposing backcourt players. ![]() When the three-peat-winning 1995 to 1998 Chicago Bulls needed a pesky defensive point guard off the bench, they turned to Randy Brown, who was acquired in 1995 after four seasons off the bench for the Sacramento Kings. Years after he retired, he returned to his alma mater of DePaul, working as a color analyst, Director of Men’s Basketball Operations, and head of Community Outreach. He was also quite popular with 1980s Bulls fans due to his being a native of Chicago suburb Arlington Heights.Īll in all, Corzine spent 13 years in the NBA as his 6’11”-260 frame often guaranteed him a place on someone’s roster. Jordan’s arrival, however, took away a lot of his touches in 1984-85, and he would soon be supplanted by defensive specialist Jawann Oldham, then the aforementioned Bill Cartwright as starting center as the Bulls kept improving. But for a couple seasons in the pre-Michael Jordan era, Corzine was a pretty decent starting center, using his burly frame to haul down rebounds, while contributing his share on offense. One of the older players in this list, Dave Corzine’s career stats may suggest he was the predecessor of the aging Bill Cartwrights and Robert Parishes and the mediocre Will Perdues and Luc Longleys who had come after him. Most recently, he had worked for the Milwaukee Bucks, and was one of the first to watch Giannis Antetokounmpo in action and alert the NBA of his presence. After his NBA career ended, he returned to Europe, where he kept playing until 2008, and worked as an European scout for a few NBA teams afterwards. Obviously, David wasn’t going to be the next big star for the Bulls, and as his stats (5.0 ppg, 2.8 rpg over three years) show, he didn’t do much better in his other NBA stopovers. In other words, the “Michael Jordan of Hungary” was just about as useful as a Fred Roberts or a Darvin Ham would have been. Kornel David is the answer to this trivia question – who is the only Hungarian to ever play in the NBA? One of many second-stringers in this list who played for the immediate post-MJ Bulls of the late-‘90s and early-‘00s, David was already 27 years old when he made his NBA debut, and he did see some of the minutes left behind when Scottie Pippen moved to the Houston Rockets for the 1998-99 season. That should pretty much make for someone who qualifies as a forgotten Chicago Bulls player of note, so let's see what these lesser blasts from the Bulls' past are up to right now. He should have last played for the Bulls no later than the 2009-10 season. He should have last been active in the NBA no later than the 2014-15 season. He should have either been drafted/signed as an undrafted rookie by the Bulls (or acquired as a rookie on draft day) or recognized primarily as a Bulls player. He should have been drafted no later than 2006. The player shouldn't have been of star caliber for a sustained (longer than two to three seasons) period of time. Yes, there have been tons of players to wear a Bulls uniform in the team's 51 years, but we've got to narrow it down, right? In order to qualify as a "forgotten" player, we've included some criteria, which we list as follows. For all those recognizable names, there are hundreds more whom we sometimes (or often) forget had once suited up for the Bulls. They were also regular NBA whipping boys after Jordan's second and ostensibly final retirement, and recently, they've fielded competitive lineups led by Derrick Rose, and at the present, Jimmy Butler. You also think of the Bulls, who were the NBA's undisputed team of the '90s with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, and company, and prior to that, a team that made the playoffs in their maiden (1966-67) season, and had some pretty strong teams in the '70s with Bob Love, Chet Walker, Jerry Sloan, Norm Van Lier, and others. When you think of Chicago, you think of the Cubs and the White Sox, the Bears, the Blackhawks, and of CM Punk.
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