Pierce deserves RESPECT

[makaveli]

Can you name a player besides Malone and John S. that have played for one franchise their whole carer and haven't won a championship for at least 10 years?
I know Paul will win it all this season with the celtics...
You look at guys like McGrady, Carter, Kidd, they've packed up as soon as things were going down..
I can think of Garnett and Dirk of current players, but Dirk has been on good winning team mostly
So I guess we have 2 of amerikaz most hungry players

[dark_lord]

reggie miller

[Redz]

Mailman did jump ship to LA his last year, so rule him out too.

[nickagneta]

Patrick Ewing

[BudweiserCeltic]

I'll throw this out too... Ray Allen has never been a free-agent. And I believe Antoine Walker would've stayed a Celtic for life if given the chance.

Outstanding thing to see when great players stick with franchises win or lose for long periods of times, but I can't fault players like Garnett and Allen that get traded (without demanding a trade)... I think they deserve as much respect in this regard too.

[ChainSmokingLikeDino]

Patrick Ewing

Also didn't finish his career with the same team. Last two seasons with Seattle and Orlando.
Rik Smits  

[nickagneta]

Brad Daugherty - only 8 years but all with Cleveland, no championship

Dan Issel - 9 NBA years, one team, no championship, but he did play ABA ball before that. Does that count?

Reggie Lewis - only 6 years but if he didn't die he'd probably be here

[Redz]

Kevin Johnson sort of fits into the theme of this post, but he did play his first season in Cleveland before spending 12 in Phoenix.  But I lump him in with this more so than the guys who "jumped ship" at the end of their careers.

[seeingreen34]

Elgin Baylor. Play his whole career with the Lakers and retired 9 games into the 71-72 season when they won a championship, a then record 69 games,  and 33 games in a row. He did make it to the NBA finals 8 times and lost 7 of them to the Celtics and the other one to the Knicks.

[youcanthandlethetruth113]

Detlef Schremph!

Sam Perkins!

Pat Garrity!

[ChainSmokingLikeDino]

Detlef Schremph!

Sam Perkins!

Pat Garrity!

Garrity basically played only for the Magic but Schrempf and Perkins moved around a ton.

[SShoreFan 2.0]

Patrick Ewing

Also didn't finish his career with the same team. Last two seasons with Seattle and Orlando.
Rik Smits 

I liked Rik Smits -- he and Reggie were always fun to watch.

[wdleehi]

Tom Chambers

[klg05]

I'll throw this out too... Ray Allen has never been a free-agent. And I believe Antoine Walker would've stayed a Celtic for life if given the chance.

Outstanding thing to see when great players stick with franchises win or lose for long periods of times, but I can't fault players like Garnett and Allen that get traded (without demanding a trade)... I think they deserve as much respect in this regard too.

I would love to see the Celtics win just for our "three guys" more than for me or for the city of Boston.  It would be such a thrill for them to get that championship this year with this team together.

[nickagneta]

Tom Chambers

Chambers was on like 6 different teams.

George Gervin, if you don't count his ABA years. Oops just looked it up, last year in Chicago.

Sidney Moncrief. [dang] last year in Atlanta.

Oh. Oh. I got one. Calvin Murphy