![]() ![]() ![]() "THE NBA DRAFT: Big Deal for Warriors: Webber for Hardaway: Basketball: Golden State Finally Gets Someone with Size. "PRO BASKETBALL Pick and Troll: Magic Trades No. Played, MPG), All-NBA First Team, NBA All-Defensive Second Team, NBA All-Star Latrell Sprewell - League Leader (Mins.Chris Webber - Rookie of the Year, Player of the Week (Jan.Z - clinched division title y - clinched division title x - clinched playoff spot Record vs. Roster 1993–94 Golden State Warriors roster Players This would be their final playoff appearance until 2007.įollowing the season, Marčiulionis and second-year forward Byron Houston were both traded to the Seattle SuperSonics, and Johnson re-signed as a free agent with his former team, the San Antonio Spurs. However, in the Western Conference First Round of the playoffs, the Warriors were swept by the Phoenix Suns in three straight games. Sprewell also finished in second place in Most Improved Player voting. In addition, Mullin played half of the season off the bench, averaging 16.8 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, while Billy Owens provided the team with 15.0 points and 8.1 rebounds per game, and Johnson contributed 10.9 points and 5.3 assists per game. blocks per game, and was named Rookie of the Year, and was also named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team, while second-year star Latrell Sprewell averaged 21.0 points, 4.7 assists and 2.2 steals per game, and was named to the All-NBA First Team, NBA All-Defensive Second Team, and was selected for the 1994 NBA All-Star Game. Webber averaged 17.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2.2. The team improved over the previous season as they posted an 8-game winning streak in April, finishing third in the Pacific Division with a solid 50–32 record. Without All-Star guard Tim Hardaway and sixth man Šarūnas Marčiulionis, who both missed the entire season with knee injuries, and with Chris Mullin missing the first 20 games with a finger injury, the Warriors struggled losing three of their first four games, but soon recovered later holding a 27–20 record at the All-Star break. During the off-season, the team signed free agent Avery Johnson. In the 1993 NBA draft, the Warriors selected Penny Hardaway from the University of Memphis with the third overall pick, but soon traded him to the Orlando Magic in exchange for top draft pick Chris Webber from the University of Michigan. The 1993–94 NBA season was the Warriors' 48th season in the National Basketball Association, and their 31st in the San Francisco Bay Area. Then he went to the Knicks, where he had more personality clashes and didn't last a full year, even though the team had a winning record.NBA professional basketball team season 1993–94 Golden State Warriors season Nelson was gone midway through the season, when the Warriors had a 14-31 record. Nelson must have been humbled by what happened to him after he and Webber split ways with Webber's trade to the Washington Bullets. When Nelson offered to resign so Webber could rejoin the Warriors, Webber even took offense to that, calling it a stunt to get on the fans' good side. It was designed to give top rookies a quick shot at using their "Larry Bird" rights to re-sign with their team at a higher salary.īut Webber decided to use his opt-out for leverage, refusing to come back to the Warriors unless they traded him or dumped Nelson. Webber took advantage of the old loophole that allowed rookies to opt out of their contracts after a year in the league and become restricted free agents (a loophole since closed with the advent of the multi-year rookie scale contracts). Webber wanted to be "treated like a man." There were benchings and on-court shouting matches. ![]() While Webber was in the process of becoming the rookie of the year in 1993-94, Nelson was talking bad about Webber in front of other players. The following is a ESPN summary of what happened at the end of Webber's first stint in GS. Webber would end up with the Warriors again at the end of his career but I'm going to pretend that never happened. That was the case with Chris Webber and Don Nelson who just a couple years before broke up Run TMC to get Billy Owens. You will probably never see another case where a team is able to trade for the #1 pick, he wins rookie of the year and then they trade him. As part of We Believe week let's have a video flashback to the short but spectacular time Chris Webber had in Golden State. ![]()
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