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

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Experience: Rookie, Temple. SG. 1991-92 Denver Nuggets. Mark Macon. 18. player. 73

Mark Macon had been an All-American at Temple as a freshman and finished his four-year career with more than 2,600 points and an average of more than 20 points per game. The Denver Nuggets selected the shooting guard eighth overall in the 1991 NBA Draft and almost immediately put him in the starting lineup.

Yeah, about that.

It was the second season of the grand Paul Westhead experiment in Denver, where the Nuggets tried to outrun everyone in the NBA. They improved to 24 wins from 20 the previous season, but Macon struggled with his shooting and never really got better.

After making 67 starts as a rookie, he started 37 more games over the remainder of his NBA career.

Macon’s per-game numbers from 1991-92:

Age	Pos	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
22	SG	76	67	30.3	4.4	11.7	.375	0.1	0.4	.133	.377	1.8	2.4	.730	2.9	2.2	2.0	0.2	2.0	3.2	10.6

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Generated 10/15/2015.

And his advanced statistics:

G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48
76	2304	8.3	.415	.034	.208	3.5	6.9	5.1	10.7	3.3	0.4	13.8	19.8	-3.1	2.3	-0.8	-0.016

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Generated 10/15/2015.

Macon was dealt to the Detroit Pistons early in the 1993-94 season and played a season in the Continental Basketball Association and a year in Italy after being waived in April 1996.

He returned to the NBA with the Pistons in January 1999, but was waived less than a month later.

That was followed by stints in Turkey, Venezuela and the U.S. Basketball League before he retired in 2001.

He later coached three seasons at Binghamton, going 23-70 from 2009-12.

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