NBA: The 25 worst players to ever win Rookie of the Year

NBA: The 25 worst players to ever win Rookie of the Year: 24. Terry Cummings

The players ranked on either side of Terry Cummings spend the bulk of their careers with one team. Cummings is at the other end of the spectrum, playing for seven teams across an 18-year career. That includes six seasons each for the Milwaukee Bucks and San Antonio Spurs over his prime.

Cummings began his career in San Diego, where the Clippers drafted him second overall in the 1982 NBA Draft. It was a big adjustment for the Chicago native who stayed close to home for college, starring at DePaul. He went from a consensus first-team All-American his final season of college to Rookie of the Year for San Diego in 1982-83.

He earned that award by filling up the stat sheet from day one, taking as many shots as he could handle on a bad Clippers team. He averaged 23.7 points, 10.6 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game; all of those numbers would prove to be career highs. The interior scorer continued to pound inside for the next decade for three different teams, putting up good numbers and making it on two All-NBA teams.

A knee injury in 1992 robbed him of nearly an entire season, and when he returned he was a shell of himself. Even so, he hung on and played until his late 30s, racking up 91.1 win shares over 1,183 games, and his 19,460 points still rank 58th all-time.

Cummings won Rookie of the Year in a landslide, with numbers more dominant than any of his compatriots. Yet looking back, two future Hall of Fame players joined him on the All-Rookie first team: James Worthy and Dominique Wilkins. Cummings’ career was not to their level, but you don’t stick around the league for 18 seasons by being terrible.