Cleveland Cavaliers: Top 30 all-time greatest players
By Ben Beecken
<ul> <li>7 seasons with Cavaliers (1974-80, 84)</li> <li>Averaged 16.1 points and 5.1 rebounds per game</li> <li>1x All-Star with Cavs</li> </ul>. SF. . Campy Russell. 15. player. 156
Here’s another contributor to the 1970s teams that made three consecutive playoff appearances, including reaching the 1976 Eastern Conference Finals.
Campy Russell was the second-leading scorer on that 1975-76 team and tallied a team-high 16.5 points per game for the 43-win squad the following season. He followed that up by scoring 19.4 points per game in 1977-78 and 21.9 points per contest while making the All-Star team in 1978-79, his age-27 season.
Russell only played one more season in Cleveland before heading to New York, where his play began to decline as a member of the Knicks.
He missed both the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons due to injury before appearing in three final games in a Cavs uniform at the start of the 1984-85 campaign.