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NBA: 25 Worst Individual Seasons Of The 3-Point Era

By Phil Watson

Feb 5, 2016; Denver, CO, USA; Denver Nuggets guard Emmanuel Mudiay (0) drives to the net against Chicago Bulls forward Tony Snell (20) in the third quarter at the Pepsi Center. The Nuggets defeated the Bulls 115-110. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 5, 2016; Denver, CO, USA; Denver Nuggets guard Emmanuel Mudiay (0) drives to the net against Chicago Bulls forward Tony Snell (20) in the third quarter at the Pepsi Center. The Nuggets defeated the Bulls 115-110. Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports /
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Experience: 1st year, Minnesota. SG. 1992-93 Dallas Mavericks. Walter Bond. 23. player. 79

When Walter Bond came out of Minnesota in 1991, he didn’t get a sniff from the NBA, instead playing the 1991-92 season with the Wichita Falls Texans of the Continental Basketball Association.
The Dallas Mavericks, coming off a 22-60 season, brought Bond in on a training camp deal in October 1992 and he earned a spot on the team, starting 38 games at shooting guard.

He just wasn’t so much with the shooting part, hitting 40.2 percent of his shots on the season while appearing in 74 games as Dallas became just the second team in NBA history to lose 70 games in a single season, finishing 11-71.

Here are Bond’s per game averages:

Age G GS MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% eFG% FT FTA FT% TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS
23 74 38 21.3 3.1 7.6 .402 0.1 0.6 .167 .408 1.7 2.3 .772 2.6 1.6 1.0 0.2 1.5 3.0 8.0

Provided by Basketball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 10/5/2015.

And his advanced numbers:

Season G MP PER TS% 3PAr FTr TRB% AST% STL% BLK% TOV% USG% OWS DWS WS WS/48
1992-93 74 1578 9.0 .462 .074 .296 6.7 11.8 2.3 0.7 14.9 19.4 -1.2 0.4 -0.8 -0.024

Provided by Basketball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 10/5/2015.

Bond signed as a free agent with the Utah Jazz and spent the 1993-94 and beginning of 1994-95 with them before being waived. In December 1994, he joined the Detroit Pistons, playing five games before being waived.

He returned to the Jazz on a pair of 10-day contracts in January 1995, but was not retained and finished the season in the CBA, where he played in 1996-97.

He got a shot with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1995 but did not make the team in training camp and failed to make the Atlanta Hawks in 1997.

Bond was in the CBA through 1998 before playing in Italy and Germany, retiring in 1999.

He was the host of Food Network’s Giving You the Business reality show in 2013.

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