Cleveland Cavaliers: The 10 Worst Players of the Past 10 Years

SportsCenter has the "Not Top Plays."

Sports Nation routinely shows the "Three Jeers and Tears."

Sometimes, it's just fun to celebrate others' misfortunes.

Today, I give you the 10 worst players to don a Cavaliers uniform in the past 10 years. 

These players make the list based on not living up to expectations, under-performing on the court or simply suffering from a lack of overall talent.

Ladies and gentlemen, your worst Cavaliers of the past decade.

Trajan Langdon

Years with Cavs: 1999-2002

(Un)Memorable Stat: Five career starts in three seasons with Cavs, his only years in NBA

Langdon was a star at Duke before becoming the Cavaliers 11th-overall pick in 1999.

In three short seasons, Langdon was a severe disappointment, scoring only 5.4 points a game for the Cavs while only starting five times in 119 career games.

His low shooting percentage (.416) also led to his dismissal from the Cavs and the NBA in general.

To his credit, however, Langdon enjoyed a successful career overseas, playing in the Russian, Turkish, Italian and Euro Leagues.

In all, he totaled 12 seasons in professional basketball before retiring in June 2011.

In Europe he was a star.

In Cleveland? Not so much.

Luke Jackson

Years with Cavs: 2004-2006

(Un)Memorable Stat: .348 percent shooting in career with Cavaliers

Jackson was the 10th-overall pick in the 2004 NBA draft.

Apparently, liquor was being served in the Cavs draft headquarters.

Luke was a great player at the University of Oregon but was an incredible reach in the draft. 

Going one pick after Andre Iguodala and before players such as Al Jefferson, Josh Smith, Kevin Martin and Jameer Nelson, it's safe to say Jackson was an unwise pick.

He only spent two years with the Cavaliers before being traded to Boston before the 2006-2007 season for Dwayne Jones.

His poor shooting ability and high draft position land the former Duck on this list.

Ira Newble

Years with Cavs: 2003-2008

(Un)Memorable Stat: 1.3 points on .298 percent shooting in 36 games, 2005-06.

How Newble stayed on the Cavaliers roster for five seasons is beyond me. 

He couldn't shoot, didn't defend and definitely wasn't the prettiest thing to look at.

In 2005-2006, Ira averaged 4.9 points per 36 minutes of game play!

For his career, Newble averaged 5.1 points and 2.9 rebounds. 

These are terrible stats to begin with, but it gets worse when you realize this was in 20.1 minutes a game.

What exactly was he doing on the court the whole time?

Jawad Williams

Years with Cavs: 2008-2010

(Un)Memorable Stat:  .369 percent shooting in 90 games with Cavs

Despite a poor shooting percentage and overall lack of ability, I always found myself pulling for Jawad Williams.

Was he a poor shooter?  Yes! 

Unable to grab a rebound or record an assist? Absolutely!

A nightmare on defense?  Tell me something I don't know! 

Despite all of this, however, Williams is a Clevelander, born and raised. 

He attended St. Ed's High School and represented his city with a class and dignity not found in most professional athletes.

Now, if only he could shoot...

Damon Jones

Years with Cavs: 2005-2008

(Un)Memorable Stat: Self-proclaimed greatest shooter shoots .386 percent in 2006-07.

Jones was part of the "let's throw money at everyone available" free agent class of 2005 for the Cavaliers. 

Along with Larry Hughes and Donyell Marshall, Jones was brought in to add more weapons to the Cavs and push them into the playoffs after falling just short the season before.

As it turns out, the only two things Jones did was run his mouth and miss a lot of shots.

Never scoring more than 6.7 points a game for the Cavaliers in any of his three seasons, Jones shot .387, .386 and .416 in his time with the Cavs.

His greatest contribution to the Cavaliers was undoubtedly his contract, as it was used along with Joe Smith to acquire Mo Williams in a 2008 offseason trade.

DeSagna Diop

Years with Cavs:  2001-2005

(Un)Memorable Stat:  1.6 points per game in 193 games with Cavaliers

Years from now, history classes will study DeSagna Diop. 

The professor will ask, "Class, how can a 7'0", 300-pound man be so unproductive in the game of basketball?"

The class will naturally go silent, as so many of us have when pondering the same question.

In 193 games over four seasons, Diop scored 310 points for the Cavaliers.  Total.

In the same four years, Allen Iverson scored 7,713 points.

I like to think Diop is saying in this picture, "I don't know why people keep paying me money to play basketball, either."

Dwayne Jones

Years with Cavs: 2006-2008

(Un)Memorable Stat: 1.3 points in 60 games with Cavs

Jones was never expected to do much, so he pretty much lived up to his expectations.

One stat to take away is that in 07-08, Jones scored 5.7 points per game per 36 minutes of play!

His remarkably unproductive time with the Cavs was mostly spent fouling players or playing defense similar to the picture shown.

Jones was a teammate of Jameer Nelson and Delonte West in college at St. Joseph's, and that's about all there is to know about Dwayne.

Scot Pollard

Years with Cavs: 2006-2007

(Un)Memorable Stat: 24 points in 24 career games with Cavs

Pollard was a journeyman who somehow always managed to find a team to pay for what little services he provided.

In 2006, it was the Cavs' turn to make the mistake of signing him, although thankfully to just a one-year deal. 

Pollard only played in 24 games for the Cavaliers and probably didn't deserve to be in that many. 

He had a nifty scoring average of one point a game, with the occasional rebound thrown in as well.

Unofficially, he is the only Cavalier to sport more hairstyles than total points scored.

Ryan Hollins

Years with Cavs: 2010-Current

(Un)Memorable Stat:  Baby-tapping Brook Lopez on back while he hits a game-winning shot.

Hollins has only played one season for the Cavs but still deserves a spot on this list.

A rarity in basketball, Hollins is a 7'0" center who has no clue how to rebound a basketball. 

For the season, he averaged 2.7 offensive and defensive boards per game and only 5.7 per 36 minutes of play.

By comparison, 6'6" shooting guard Landry Fields of the Knicks averaged 7.4 in the same amount of playing time.

I've also never seen a player with worse hands in the NBA. 

By December, I had lost count of the number of inside looks Cavs guards had dished inside to Hollins, only to ricochet off his stone mitts and out of bounds.

Hollins did earn a new endorsement with Charmin, however, as they wanted someone who was ultra soft inside.

Darius Miles

Years with Cavs: 2002-2004

(Un)Memorable Stat: Being traded for Andre Miller

Before LBJ there was Darius Miles, the high-flying high school phenom who jumped straight to the NBA.

In the early 2000s, the Cavaliers had one of the worst attendance rates in the entire league. 

Desperate to put fans in the seats, the Cavs brass decided to trade assists-leader Andre Miller to the Los Angeles Clippers for third-year superstar-to-be Darius Miles.

Whoops.

Miles struggled mightily in his season-and-a-half in Cleveland, scoring only 9.2 points a game in his first year despite starting and playing 30 minutes a game. 

The next year he was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for Jeff McInnis, and instantly his game improved. 

His shooting percentage went from .432 percent all the way to .526.  His points, rebounds, steals and blocks also went up dramatically.

In NBA Live 2003 Miles was virtually unstoppable.  In Cleveland he was anything but.