Cleveland Cavaliers: Top 30 all-time greatest players
By Ben Beecken
. Craig Ehlo. 17. player. 156. <ul> <li>7 seasons with Cavaliers (1986-93)</li> <li>Averaged 9.9 points and 4.4 rebounds, and 3.5 assists per game</li> </ul>. SG
The name Craig Ehlo is surely known by most NBA fans as the player guarding Michael Jordan in the first round of the 1989 playoffs when M.J. hit “The Shot”.
But Ehlo was a solid player in his own right — the 17th-best in Cleveland Cavaliers history, in fact.
The Shot came at the end of Ehlo’s third season in Cleveland, a year in which he averaged 7.4 points in just 22.8 minutes per game across all 82 contests. The following season, he scored 13.6 points while starting 64 games with the Cavs.
Over his first three years with the Cavaliers, Ehlo averaged just seven points per game while appearing in 205 games and only starting 46. In his last four years in Cleveland, Ehlo started 267 of 308 games and put up 11.9 points, five rounds, and four assists per contest.
Prior to joining the Cavs, Ehlo appeared in the 1986 Finals in a losing cause for the Houston Rockets, who had drafted him in the third round of the 1983 NBA Draft.