50 greatest NBA players from the 1990s — 46. Ricky Pierce
Ricky Pierce had already established himself as one of the top sixth men in the NBA and entered the 1990s as a key cog for some Milwaukee teams that had just fallen short during the previous decade.
Pierce won his second Sixth Man of the Year award in 1989-90 and earned his lone career All-Star appearance in 1991.
But in February 1991, Pierce was swapped to the Seattle SuperSonics for Dale Ellis and for two years, he became a full-time starter for the first time in his career.
In four years with Seattle, Pierce averaged 18.5 points, 2.6 assists, 2.4 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 28.3 minutes per game, shooting .477/.309/.906.
In 1994, he began the “bounce-around” stage of his career, going from Golden State to Indiana to Denver to Charlotte and finally a return to Milwaukee before retiring in 1998.
In retirement, Pierce has developed a basketball shooting system called the Accushot22, a specially designed basketball with 10 oval indentations that are intended to teach proper fingertip placement on the ball.