NBA Draft: Redrafting the 1984 Draft Class

With the 9th pick, the Kansas City Kings select Anthony Campbell

Anthony Campbell #19

Anthony Campbell was selected by the Detroit Pistons with the 20th overall pick in the 1984 draft. Considering that he played for 11 years in the league as a small forward, with 224 starts, he can be considered one of the steals of the draft (although a certain point guard drafted at #16 is unarguably the biggest steal of this class).

Tony Campbell spent 3 seasons with the Pistons before being traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he won an NBA championship ring in 1988. He was taken by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the expansion draft of 1989, and proceeded to put together the best statistical seasons of his career at the small forward position.

He played all 82 games of the 1989-90 season, averaging 23.2 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.4 steals per game. The following season he continued in the same vein, averaging 21.8 points per game, although the Timberwolves were among the worst teams in the division even then.

Campbell finished out his career with spells at the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks and a final season with the Cleveland Cavaliers (1994-95). He averaged 11.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game through the course of his career.