Chicago Bulls: 10 criminally underrated Michael Jordan teammates

Criminally underrated teammates of Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan: Sedale Threatt

Another former Jordan teammate that tended to be undervalued and underappreciated at most of his stops during his NBA career was the 6-foot-2 and 175-pound combo guard Sedale Threatt. The 139th overall pick in the sixth round of the 1983 NBA Draft of the Philadelphia 76ers was a product of West Virginia Tech.

But Threatt still had one of the lengthier NBA careers of all of the former Jordan teammates on this list. He played in the NBA for north of a dozen seasons. He spent most of his career with the Los Angeles Lakers (five seasons). Threatt also spent at least two seasons with the likes of the Bulls, Sixers, and Seattle SuperSonics.

Threatt specifically spent bits and pieces of two seasons with the Bulls, playing in 85 total regular season games during that span. In those two regular seasons with the Bulls, Threat averaged 7.2 points per game, 1.2 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 0.1 steals, and 0.1 blocks. And he shot 49.1 percent from the field, just 5.6 percent from beyond the arc, and 79.4 percent from the free-throw line.

Becoming a key part of the backcourt rotation for his two years with the Bulls, Threatt was one of the more efficient pieces alongside Jordan in the late 1980s. Threatt was a solid second or third unit guard that could facilitate the offense, defend reasonably well, and get to the rim without trouble.

Threatt was one of the most unheard players during these two decades of the Jordan years in the NBA to nearly reach 50 career win shares during the regular season.