Cavs: Franchise icons fill the Cavaliers’ All-1990s Team
Cavs’ All-1990s Team: G – Mark Price
The conversation of greatest point guard in Cleveland Cavaliers history comes down to two players: Kyrie Irving and Mark Price. Irving has the more iconic shot, the title and the same four All-Star appearances. Even so, if you ask any Cleveland fan older than 30 for their pick, they will almost certainly take Mark Price every time.
Price was as steady as they come, a guard who could score from all three levels and distribute the basketball. He was the 25th overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft by the Cavs, and by his second season he was averaging 16 points and 6.0 assists per game as the starting point guard on a playoff team.
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By the 1990s Price was firmly entrenched as one of the league’s best point guards, making an All-NBA team three straight years from 1992 to 1994, including the first team in 1993, and finishing as a Top 10 MVP candidate all three years as well. He was one of the league’s best shooters, hitting 40.2 percent of his career 3-pointers and three times leading the NBA in free-throw shooting, finishing 90.4 percent for his career. He was the first player after Larry Bird to make the “50-40-90” club, shooting 50 percent from the field, 40 percent from 3 and 90 percent from the line.
No Cavaliers player totaled more win shares than Price in the 1990s, and he lead the team in most advanced metrics as well. If major knee injuries hadn’t built on each other to sap his athleticism and shorten his prime, Price could be looked at as one of the all-time point guards. As it is, he’ll settle for the leader of the All-1990s team for the Cavs.