Brad Daugherty - Forgotten One

Bradley Lee Daugherty (born October 19, 1965 in Black Mountain, North Carolina) is an American former basketball player at the University of North Carolina and later with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA.

Brad was taken as the first pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1986 NBA Draft. Cleveland had obtained the rights to the first pick in a trade with the Philadelphia 76ers for Roy Hinson. The Cavaliers also drafted Ron Harper with the eighth pick in the 1986 draft and obtained the rights to Mark Price (in a trade with the Dallas Mavericks) the 25th pick (second round). Harper, Price and Daugherty, along with fellow rookie John "Hot Rod" Williams immediately began to pay dividends for Cleveland. Daugherty, Williams, and Harper were all named to the '86-'87 All-Rookie team.

Daugherty averaged nineteen points and ten rebounds per game over eight seasons in the NBA and retired as the Cavaliers all time leading scorer (10,389 points) and rebounder (5,227). He played in 41 postseason games and led the Cavaliers as far as the Eastern Conference Finals in 1992. Brad was a five time All-Star (1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993) and one of the greatest players in Cleveland Cavalier history. As part of the Cavaliers 30th Anniversary in 1999-2000, Daugherty was a unanimous selection to the All-Time Cleveland Cavalier team.

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[SacrificedKodos]

He is the prototypical Tim Duncan. I wish I were old enough to remember how he played.

[bobbyafc]

Massively underrated player. He's a great gentleman as well.

[dalmain77]

Those Cavs were pretty good...too bad Micheal Jordan and the Bulls were winning championships at that time. Hot Rod Williams, Larry Nance, Daugherty, Price, Ehlo..and the rest of the bunch. Good cavs teams.

[AdreasTheGreat]

@mrbuckeye45 U are totally right about "unathletic" daugherty(7f.265lb),his body-type is similar to tim duncan!people also forget that he faced some of the best centers ever,hakeem,robinson,ewing,sha­q,mourning,parish,mutombo,jabb­bar...

[AlexJClifton]

yeah, he is so unathletic he still gets up at 545 every morning to run 10 miles.....i used to spend every weekend at his house.

[recazzaro951]

go cavs

[mrbuckeye45]

I remember when the Cavs traded Roy Hinson to get the #1 pick. I was pissed!!! I loved Roy Hinson. When the Cavs drafted Daugherty I was livid. Turns out I was completely wrong. One of many reasons why I would never be a great GM. For people saying Brad it too unathletic for todays game, that's a bunch of hooey. He'll never been mistaken for Dwight Howard in the athletic department, but he was light years ahead of todays centers when it comes to basketball skills...SKILLS!!!!

[MrLitespeed10]

@socalkickboxer 'this dude'was a race fan long before basketball.knows as much about racing as any body.

[MrLitespeed10]

@dalejrgamer ,i can tell from growing up in the same area as brad,(asheville n.c.)he and his family were at the local race track here every friday night.they even put up a basketball goal on put road for him,he spent that much time there.and you just knew he was going to be a star someday.he has in fact drove a race car last year at tri-county speedway and this year at myrtle beach speedway,late model.

[lmorganjr]

Does the city of Cleveland remember Mark Price, Brad Daugherty, Larry Nance, and Craig Ehlo?

At one point in time (for those of the few basketball fans), the Cleveland Cavaliers had 3 (or maybe 4) players on the Eastern Conference All-Star Team, in which a couple of those players could be future Hall of Fame(rs).