There’s still some film that shows how disappointing the 6-foot-11 and 255 pound center Granville Waiters was early in his NBA career with the Bulls. Advanced numbers tell the whole story for Waiters in a Bulls uniform. He registered a box plus/minus rating of -4.1, player efficiency rating of 6.5, and .043 win shares per 48 minutes in two seasons in the Windy City.
And Waiters had an offensive rating of just 69 in his final season with the Bulls.
Waiters was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the second round of the 1983 NBA Draft. But he would later debut in the NBA with the Bulls current divisional foe Indiana Pacers, and then play one season with the Houston Rockets before spending two years in the Windy City. That run with the Bulls through 1987-88 would be the end of Waiters’ career in the NBA too.
Since this list kept a minimum requirement of playing 60 games during the Jordan tenure with the Bulls, Waiters just squeaked in on the top five. The 1986-87 season where Waiters played in 44 games and started in 26 of them showed how thin the Bulls were at the center position. He started in more than a quarter of the regular season games that year just before his career was about to come to an end.
In 66 total games played with the Bulls, Waiters averaged 1.6 points per game, 1.7 rebounds, 0.3 assists, and 0.7 blocks, while shooting 40.2 percent from the field and 45.5 percent from the charity stripe. The fact that a center had a field goal percentage of just above 40 shows how poor the stint was for Waiters in Chicago.