Brad Daugherty played for the Cleveland Cavaliers from 1986 to 1994. His jersey was retired by the Cavaliers on March 1st, 1997 and is one of only six Cavalier players to have had that done. Easily one of the best players in Cavaliers history, Brad Daugherty was a consistent twenty point and ten rebound threat throughout his career and was selected to the NBA All-Star game five times. These are important stats and atonements for any player and such is a major reason for why Brad Daugherty is still both loved and renowned in Ohio to this day.

In 1986, Brad Daugherty was the number one pick overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers. In the 1986 draft Daugherty was picked ahead of such players as Ron Harper, Brad Sellers and Len Bias. That says a lot considering that all three of those players were much heralded coming out of college. http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/history/brad_daugherty.html http://www.nba.com/history/retired_numbers.html http://www.basketball-reference.com/draft/NBA_1986.html

Brad Daugherty’s prime could be argued to have been from 1990 to 1993, as seeing Daugherty averaged twenty points and ten rebounds in each of those three seasons. In each of those years Daugherty also shot better than fifty percent from the field and over seventy five percent from the free throw line. For a big man, those are very good numbers. Any time a center can average twenty points and ten rebounds he’s consider an elite player at his position. In the early 1990’s, Brad Daugherty was certainly one of the elite centers in the NBA. Unfortunately for Brad Daugherty, in mid-February of 1994 he suffered a career-ending herniated lumbar disc injury.

Despite the fact that his career was cut shot, Brad Daugherty is remember quite well by NBA fans. Before LeBron James was drafted by the Cavalier organization in 2003, Brad Daugherty was arguably the best player the team had ever had.http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/history/brad_daugherty.html