New Orleans Pelicans: 15 greatest scorers of all-time

P.J. Brown was a late second-round pick by the New Jersey Nets back in 1992 with little promise of a long career in the NBA, and yet, he managed to last over a decade in the league as a reliable option at the power forward and center position.

At 6-11, the former Louisiana Tech alumni was someone you could throw the ball to near the basket as a low-post threat. His game didn’t consist of fancy up-fakes or hesitations. Brown would simply back all the way down until he got within inches of the basket, at which point he’d lay in a soft baby-hook for an easy two points.

He wasn’t much of an athlete in terms of dunking over opponents off pick-and-rolls, but he had soft hands that were great off feeds from point guards working the two-man game who possessed the patience to wait for an opening in the defense followed by a shot in the paint.

Where Brown was truly unique, though, was his ability to knock down a baseline jumper with regular consistency. Remember, this was at a time where bigs weren’t supposed to step out beyond the confines of the restricted area, and yet there he was, on either side of the court, providing spacing with a reliable jumper the defenses had to give respect to.

He wasn’t a volume scorer, with only 10.3 points per game as a member of the Hornets, but it was the consistency he brought on a nightly basis for four seasons in New Orleans that helped him score the seventh most points in franchise history.