Best brother combo in basketball history?

Journeyman · Feb 14, 2006

The question is what brother combination make up the best in basketball history?

Surprisingly there are not as many as the other major league sports.

Albert and Bernard King, both had enormous potential and both had trouble living up to their legendary potential...After shredding his knee , going into hybernation and missing two full seasons ,Bernard King came back to dominate ...very few players were on his level as an offensive player...Albert King never lived up to his potential, still had a solid NBA career, mainly with the Nets.

WorldNumberOne · Feb 14, 2006

Dominique and Gerald Wilkens .

Journeyman · Feb 14, 2006

World Number One said:
Dominique and Gerald Wilkens .

Pretty good one, I would take the King's though.

WorldNumberOne · Feb 14, 2006

Gerald Wilkens had a better career than Albert King.

Nique is all Bernard King ever was..

honzie · Feb 14, 2006

The only other bros. I can think of right now is the Paxsons, Jim and John. Or how about the Bruise Brothers, Rick Mahorn and Jeff Ruland aka McFilth and McNasty

Journeyman · Feb 14, 2006

Bernard King epitomized the NBA small forward of the 1980s. King was known as a tremendous scorer, leading the NBA in scoring in 1985 with 32.9 points per game. He was selected twice to the NBA First Team and four times to the NBA All-Star Game and during the 1983-84 NBA season, he made history, on January 31, 1984, as a Knick in a game vs. The San Antonio Spurs at San Antonio, he went 20 for 23, and made 10 free throws to score 50 points (The Knicks won that game 117-113), the next night in a game against the Dallas Mavericks at Dallas, he went 20 for 28, made 10 free throws and became the first NBA Player since 1964 to score 50 points in back-to-back games (The Knicks won that game too 105-98), and officialy became the toast of the Big Apple.
At the peak of his career, King suffered a devastating knee injury, a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee against the-then Kansas City Kings in Kansas City, Missouri on March 23, 1985. It required major reconstruction, and he missed all of the 1986-87 season and almost all of the next season before returning. However, his explosiveness was diminished, prompting the New York Knicks to release him at the end of the 1987 season. It should be noted that his injury, combined with the downfall of the Knicks prior to 1985, allowed them to get the draft pick that would allow the Knicks to get Patrick Ewing. However, King would have a very successful comeback with the Washington Bullets, improving his scoring average each year and returning to the All-Star Game one last time in 1991. After a brief stint with the New Jersey Nets, his knee problems forced him into retirement in 1993.
Although nominated in 2004, King has yet to be elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Arguably, his candidacy is handicapped by the relatively few games he played (874), and the abundance of high-scoring small forwards of the era such as Dominique Wilkins, Adrian Dantley, Alex English, and Mark Aguirre.

Journeyman · Feb 14, 2006

King was a scoring machine period.

t3a · Feb 14, 2006

Tom and Dick Van Arsdale, both played over 10 years and averaged over 15 points for their careers. Both were named to a couple all-star teams also

Neither as flashy as Bernard King or Dominique Wilkens, but taken together they both had good careers

basketball-reference.com has a nice search engine where you can compare any past or current players stats and they break it out by season, post season, on a 40 min avg, etc

Cubsmac · Feb 14, 2006

not that they are all that good, but the Barry's are another brother combo. Brent, Jon, and Drew.

VIEJODINOSAUR · Feb 15, 2006

K.C and Sam Jones from the Celtics...championships

Dubpoet · Feb 15, 2006

The boys from 85 villanova team. One would cut and scrape and pass the bill to the other without a turnover or broken mirror.
:coke: :coke: :coke: :coke:

Journeyman · Feb 15, 2006

VIEJO DINOSAUR said:
K.C and Sam Jones from the Celtics...championships

I didn't know they were brothers.

CHRISG612 · Feb 15, 2006

Joey and Stephen Graham from Oklahoma St... or how about Ronell and Donell Taylor from UAB.. or how about when they played each other last year and the crowd had signs saying "Our brothers are better than yours" ..

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=243450197

VIEJODINOSAUR · Feb 15, 2006

Journeyman, you might be right but I think they were. If not I stand corrected.
I'll try another one....O'Bannon brothers from UCLA.

VIEJODINOSAUR · Feb 15, 2006

MY MISTAKE......Journeyman was right again.......K.C. and Sam were not
blood brothers, just plain old brothers..lol

CalRedwood · Feb 15, 2006

Reggie and Cheryl Miller both Hall of Famers!

Journeyman · Feb 15, 2006

VIEJO DINOSAUR said:
MY MISTAKE......Journeyman was right again.......K.C. and Sam were not
blood brothers, just plain old brothers..lol

viking611 · Feb 15, 2006

Cal Redwood said:
Reggie and Cheryl Miller both Hall of Famers!

LMAO!!!

uppy: Great choice!!!

cadillacman · Feb 15, 2006

Bernard King was just incredible...very underrated in NBA lore imo

Nomad1951 · Feb 15, 2006

well, hell, they may not have been the best, but there sure were more of them...

Wil Jones...

Major Jones...

Charles Jones...

and the most accomplished of them all...

Caldwell Jones

They all played at Albany St., in Ga...may have had other brothers who played there too, but did not play in NBA/ABA...