Chicago Bulls: 3 worst players on ‘The Last Dance’ team
1. Dickey Simpkins, Power Forward
The former Providence Friars 6-foot-9 and 250 pound big man Dickey Simpkins didn’t have the longest run in a Bulls uniform, but he did at least get on NBA Championship during this 1997-98 season. In total, Simpkins would play in bits and pieces of three years with the Bulls after he landed in the Windy City in a trade from the Golden State Warriors.
During the 1997-98 regular season, Simpkins would play in 21 games with the Bulls and 19 with the Warriors. He would also get to play in 13 games during the Bulls 1998 playoff run. In the regular season, he averaged 3.7 points per game, 1.5 rebounds, 0.8 assists, and 0.2 steals, while shooting a solid 63.4 percent from the field.
The advanced stats weren’t great for Simpkins in the regular season either. He posted a -1.8 box plus/minus rating, 11.9 player efficiency rating, and 0.7 win shares. There’s not much that Simpkins did over the long haul to help the Bulls win games during the 1997-98 campaign.
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In the 13 games that Simpkins played during the 1998 playoffs, he averaged 1.2 points per game, 1.0 rebounds, 0.2 assists, and 0.2 steals, while shooting 37.5 percent from the field. His advanced numbers were pretty atrocious, though, during the Bulls playoff run. He registered a box plus/minus rating of -5.8, value over replacement player rating of -0.1, .028 win shares per 48 minutes, and a 40.1 true shooting percentage.
Simpkins was the most efficient of the three players on this list, but he also played in the least number of games in the 1997-98 season.