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Sidney Moncrief

Position: Guard

Years Active: 1975-1979 (College), 1979 to 1991 (NBA)

Accolades: 2x Defensive Player of the Year, 5x All-NBA, 5x All-Defensive Team, 5x All-Star

If you’re unfamiliar with Sidney Moncrief, don’t feel guilty; he’s been buried in the depths of NBA history. That’s likely due to the fact that Moncrief had five all-time seasons and, literally, nothing else to warrant Hall of Fame consideration.

This is an odd case, but Moncrief deserves to make it to Springfield.

During that five-year period of brilliance, the Milwaukee Bucks star was named All-NBA five times. That includes an appearance on the First Team in 1983, when he justifiably beat out the likes of George Gervin and Isiah Thomas, and four Second Team nods—a sign that he was a Top 10 player for five straight seasons.

Not only was he All-NBA in all five of those seasons, but Moncrief was All-Defense and an All-Star, as well.

Pairing four All-Defensive First Team selections and one All-Defensive Second Team bid with five All-NBA nods is tough to do. In the playoffs, he led the Bucks to series wins over the likes of Larry Bird‘s Boston Celtics—a sweep, might I add—Julius Erving‘s Philadelphia 76ers, and Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, and the resume is essentially complete.

If you’re still looking for that career-defining achievement to round out his resume, here it is: Moncrief won two Defensive Player of the Year awards—something that no other perimeter player in NBA history can claim to have done.

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