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Brooklyn Nets: 15 best draft picks of all-time (updated through 2018-19)

By Phil Watson

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EAST RUTHERFORD – MARCH 5: Chris Morris #34 of the New Jersey Nets dunks during a game played on March 5, 1995 at Continetal Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 1995 NBAE (Photo by Noren Trotman/NBAE via Getty Images) /

SF. New Jersey Nets (1st round, 4th overall, 1988 NBA Draft). Chris Morris. 8. player. 147.

Chris Morris was another in a long line of high lottery picks for the New Jersey Nets in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with New Jersey taking the Auburn wing with the No. 4 overall selection in 1988.

Morris liked to shoot — a lot — and did so reasonably well as a rookie, slashing .457/.366/.717 en route to averages of 14.1 points and 5.2 rebounds in 27.6 minutes per game. That landed him on the All-Rookie Second Team.

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    • The problem for Morris and the Nets was that it just didn’t get much better than that. Even with increased minutes as a full-time starter, Morris never averaged more than 14.8 points per game and his 3-point shooting never improved from his rookie season.

    Morris lasted seven seasons in New Jersey, as a starter and reserve, and averaged 13.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 29.9 minutes per game before departing for the Utah Jazz as an unrestricted free agent in October 1995.

    He was a reserve on Utah’s back-to-back NBA Finals teams in 1997 and 1998 and ended his NBA career as a reserve with the Phoenix Suns in the 1999 lockout year.

    After 11 NBA seasons, Morris took his show to other parts of the globe, spending two seasons in Greece, one in the Philippines and two in Venezuela while also spending part of 2001 touring with the Harlem Globetrotters. He also had a short stint in the new ABA with the Southern California Surf in 2002.

    Morris is all over the career record books, as not many Nets have managed to last seven seasons on a roster regardless of whether the team was on Long Island, in Jersey or in Brooklyn.

    His 510 games is fifth in team history and he’s fourth with 1,290 offensive boards and 784 steals, while appearing in the top 10 in a total of 17 categories.

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