Chicago Bulls: Building the all-time worst starting five

Center: Sidney Green, 1985-86

Much like the situation that the Chicago Bulls ran into with Simpkins, former starting center Sidney Green only got one season in the Windy City to start. And he definitely didn’t make the most of it before the Bulls would dish him out to the Central Division foe Detroit Pistons. Green would find a bit more success in his first season with the Pistons, but he was mostly a net negative presence when on the floor for any team in his NBA career.

Green got to play in 80 games, while starting in 68 of them. In those 80 games that Green played in during the 1985-86 season with the Bulls, he averaged 13.5 points per game, 8.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 0.9 steals, 0.5 blocks, while shooting 46.5 percent from the field. Green would also average 2.8 turnovers per game and 3.7 personal fouls.

The box plus/minus rating that Green posted with the Bulls during the 1985-86 season was one of the worst by any center in franchise history (or at least since the stat took effect on Basketball Reference). He registered a box plus/minus rating of -2.7, value over replacement player rating of -0.4, 110 defensive rating, and a block rate below one percent.

Green didn’t have the worst season overall by any means in 1985-86. But this was just when MJ was starting to get his career going in the NBA, and the Bulls were still on the up and up. Hall-of-Fame small forward George Gervin was also sporting a down season in what would be his last year in the NBA. This 1985-86 team had a lot of big names, but the franchise was still a few years away from reaching true prominence.