It's just so few make it to the NBA till recent years. But Mookie was on Hawks teams that usually won around 50 games. But we just put so few guys in the NBA. Before Blake OU's had 4 players since 1984 that played 500+ NBA games(Blaylock, Tisdale, Grant, and Najera) Basically since the late Tubbs era we haven't gotten a lot of NBA guys period.
Not even at that level really. When I say no real NBA talent from like 1990-2010 it's like almost nobody even playing more than a few games. There's not even guys that stick around on rosters making a couple points per game. Brent Price and Najera did that along with King but nobody else even did that level. But look at most of the rest of the conference outside of Kansas and Texas and they aren't much better. Baylor has been doing okay since the 2010s. But nobody at the level we've had with any of the big 3 we have now.
Sam made appearances in the Finals with three different franchises, one of them being my beloved Seattle Supersonics in 1996,
