Nets: 4 Players You’d Never Believe Led Team in Scoring for a Season
By Jerry Trotta
1. Kendall Gill
Kendall Gill was the No. 5 overall pick of the 1990 NBA Draft.
If you forget who led the Nets in scoring during the 1996-1997 campaign, that’s probably because they were one of the worst teams in the NBA.
In fact, their 28-54 record was good enough for the 13th-best mark in the Eastern Conference.
The honor lies with Kendall Gill, who notched a career-best 21.8 points per game that season. Gill was a former No. 5 overall pick of the Charlotte Hornets back in 1990 and was a pretty serviceable player throughout his 15-year career. He was part of the All-Rookie team and even led the league in steals (2.7) in 1998-99.
What makes his accomplishment of being the Nets top scorer in 1996 so impressive is the fact that they had a whopping seven players — Gill, Jim Jackson, Kerry Kittles, Jayson Williams, Robert Pack, Sam Cassell and Shawn Bradley — average double digits in scoring for the full season.
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The Illinois product posted 13.5 points per game for his career, so his status as New Jersey’s leading points contributor is nothing short of a shocker.