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Ranking the 21 players who have played for the most (at least 10!) NBA teams

Ish Smith has now suited up for nearly half the teams in the league. Who else comes close?

There is something special about a journeyman who has experience playing for various different franchises during their NBA careers.

As of the time of publishing this article, there are 21 players who played at least one game for at least 10 different teams around the league. While many are former undrafted free agents who scrapped and clawed their way around to stay pros, others were former top picks.

Joe Smith (No. 1 overall pick in 1995), Jim Jackson (No. 4 pick in 1992), Jeff Green (No. 5 pick in 2007) and D.J. Augustin (No. 9 pick in 2008) were lottery picks before bouncing around from team to team.

One reason for this is that you have to be pretty good to convince so many teams that you are worth an NBA contract.

So we took a look at the players who have played for the most teams while in the NBA. Feel free to use this as a resource next time you are having trouble guessing a player for Immaculate Grid.

Note that some active players who could potentially make this list in the future if they keep signing with new teams in the NBA include Justin Holiday, Robin Lopez, Jae Crowder, Seth Curry, George Hill, JaVale McGee, Markieff Morris and Noah Vonleh.

The pie charts provided below indicate how many games each player played with each team so you can track longevity.

All data is available via Basketball-Reference and NBA.com.

LSU men’s basketball all-time roster: Tiger Legends

The Tigers have had a surprising amount of talent come through their basketball program over the years

March is upon us, and that means that the madness will also return to us soon.

Unfortunately, LSU (in all likelihood) won’t be participating in the festivities after a rough first season under coach [autotag]Matt McMahon[/autotag] that featured a 14-game losing streak that lasted from late December until the end of February.

This will be the first NCAA Tournament the Tigers have missed since 2018. Although LSU basketball has, historically, been a bit of an afterthought compared to the more successful football and baseball programs, it’s had a surprising level of consistency.

Aside from several lengthy droughts — most notably in recent years from 1993-00 and 2009-19 (with the exception of 2015) — this team has regularly appeared in the postseason for much of the last several decades, though it is still searching for its first national title. Those teams have, unsurprisingly, featured quite a bit of talent over the years.

With that in mind, we’re taking a crack at piecing together an all-time two-deep LSU basketball roster including one head coach and two assistants. Let’s start things off with the coaching staff, with our first choice likely coming as no surprise.

Trades that make a lot of sense: Kyrie Irving to the Lakers and more

With free agency just three days away, HoopsHype’s salary cap expert Yossi Gozlan came up with several trades he’d like to share.

With free agency just three days away, HoopsHype’s salary cap expert Yossi Gozlan came up with several trades he’d like to share.

Trades that make a lot of sense: Kyrie Irving to the Lakers and more

With free agency just three days away, HoopsHype’s salary cap expert Yossi Gozlan came up with several trades he’d like to share.

Garrett Temple says goodbye to Nets fans: ‘I fell in love with the city’

Garrett Temple has agreed to a one-year deal with the Chicago Bulls after the Brooklyn Nets didn’t pick up his option.

Garrett Temple is onto his 10th NBA franchise as he enters his 11th season in the league.

With the Brooklyn Nets electing to decline Temple’s team option for the 2020-21 season, the wing became an unrestricted free agent — and it didn’t take long for him to find a new home.

Temple has agreed to a deal with the Bulls, confirming reports by greeting Chicago fans on Twitter.

But before Temple said hello to Bulls fans, he made sure to thank Nets fans for making him feel at home:

Thank you @BrooklynNets fans. A first-class organization and I fell in love with the city. A season I will never forget. I wish y’all nothing but the best going forward!!!

 

According to ESPN‘s Adrian Wojnarowski, Temple agreed to sign a one-year, $5 million deal with the Bulls on Friday after NBA free agency kicked off.

Temple is the third member of the Nets organization to find a new home since the league’s trade moratorium was lifted on Monday. Dzanan Musa and Jaylen Hands joined Detroit as part of the deal involving the Nets, Pistons and Los Angeles Clippers, which delivered Landry Shamet and Bruce Brown to Brooklyn.

Report: Garrett Temple agrees to one-year deal with Bulls

Garrett Temple has found a new home in the Eastern Conference after the Brooklyn Nets decided to not pick up his option.

The Brooklyn Nets had a chance to keep Garrett Temple, but the organization decided to not pick up his option for 2020-21, making the wing an unrestricted free agent.

Temple only spent one season with the Nets, averaging 10.3 points per game will playing 27.9 minutes a night. He shot 37.8% from the floor, 32.9% from 3-point territory.

More importantly, he provided a steady veteran presence throughout a bizarre season in Brooklyn.

Temple’s approach to the game will likely be what helps his new team, the Chicago Bulls, most as the franchise looks to move in the right direction with Billy Donovan as their new head coach.

According to ESPN‘s Adrian Wojnarowski, Temple agreed to sign with the Bulls on a one-year, $5 million deal.

Temple is entering his 11th season in the NBA, and will be suiting up for his 10th franchise.

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Report: Garrett Temple now a free agent with Nets declining team option

Garret Temple’s time as a member of the Nets is at an end after just one season in Brooklyn.

Garrett Temple was a steady presence for the Nets throughout what was a chaotic 2019-20 NBA season in Brooklyn. He provided a veteran voice and was a player who could contribute on both ends of the floor — doing far more than what would normally be expected of him due to the slew of injuries that plagued the Nets throughout the year.

Those injuries also presented other Nets players with opportunities throughout 2019-20. Among those who took advantage of the available minutes was Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot, who especially stood out in the Disney bubble.

While TLC’s emergence is great for the Nets, he also made Temple dispensable. The two play similarly, but TLC costs less.

So it wasn’t a huge surprise on Thursday when Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN announced the Nets are declining Garrett Temple’s option for next season, which was the final year of his two-year deal with Brooklyn.

Temple is now an unrestricted free agent.

Sixers 2020 free agency guide: Garrett Temple makes a lot of sense

Veteran Garrett Temple makes a lot of sense for the Philadelphia 76ers in free agency.

The Philadelphia 76ers have obvious holes that need to be filled before they truly begin the 2020-21 season as they look to improve the pieces around Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid.

They need shooting. They need a ball-handler. And they could use a veteran leader who shows off some toughness as well.

Philadelphia will fill these needs more in the draft and in trades since they do not have much cap space when it comes to free agency, but that does not mean they can’t find some cheap options they can lean on. The team has $6 million to spend in free agency and there are options that will come cheap in their price range.

A guy who makes a lot of sense for them is Garrett Temple, a veteran who had a fine season with the Brooklyn Nets, but the consensus is that the team will not pick up his option as it turns to younger choices.

The Athletic’s John Hollinger broke it down this way for Temple:

Brooklyn’s tax situation may push it to decline the $5 million option for Temple, especially with the development of Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot at the same position. Temple’s 3-and-D resume has suffered the past couple of seasons, as he made just 32.9 percent from distance in Brooklyn after converting 34.1 percent the year before. At 34, he doesn’t have time on his side either.

Because his low-volume game is relatively easy to plug in next to elite talent, Temple likely will have interest from contending teams at the minimum or biannual exception. It’s also possible Brooklyn declines the option but still brings him back at a lower number.

Temple averaged 10.3 points and 3.5 rebounds as he was pressed to do more due to the multitude of injuries the Nets suffered throughout the season. He is not a knockdown shooter as he is only a career 34.7% shooter from deep, but he can easily be plugged next to Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons and make a positive impact on this team. He brings a steady veteran presence, he’s a tough perimeter defender, and he can fill any role that Doc Rivers would throw at him.

He is a veteran of 11 years in the league and at 34-years old, it is all about competing for a title. As Hollinger mentioned, he could just return to Brooklyn on a cheaper deal, but Philadelphia could also swoop in if it misses on other targets.

Report: Teams ‘monitoring free agent market’ expect Nets to decline Garrett Temple’s option

Could Timothe Luwawua-Cabarrot wind up pushing Garrett Temple out of Brooklyn ahead of the Nets’ highly-anticipated 2020-21 season?

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When Kyrie Irving expressed Brooklyn needed to add one or two more pieces, he mentioned several players as being part of the solution, including himself: Kevin Durant, DeAndre Jordan, Garrett Temple, Spencer Dinwiddie and Caris LeVert.

After he received some blowback, Irving said there were other names he could’ve included on his initial list.

Whether or not that’s the case is one thing, but it seems pretty clear that at the time, the Nets point guard thought the players he listed were part of the solution in Brooklyn.

Yet, Dinwiddie’s name has reportedly come up in trade talks, and it appears some around the NBA think another member of Irving’s list may be on his way out of Brooklyn.

Ian Begley of SNY is reporting “several teams monitoring the free agent market expect the Nets to decline the $5 million team option on Garrett Temple for 2020-21.”

Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot’s emergence in 2019-20, and the fact he makes a lot less money, may end up being what pushes Temple out ahead of what should be a title-contending run in 2020-21.

Nets 2019-20 season report card: Garrett Temple

With the Brooklyn Nets’ 2019-20 at an end, it’s time to look back at the good and the bad from the season in preparation for 2020-21.

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The 2020-21 Brooklyn Nets are going to look much different from the 2019-20 team with Kevin Durant returning to the floor, Kyrie Irving being his No. 2 and Steve Nash being the rookie who’ll run the show.

But that doesn’t mean — for all the weird things the franchise experienced — 2019-20 was a throwaway year for Brooklyn.

Nets Wire is looking at the good and bad from 2019-20 nd handing out some end of the season grades. Let’s look at the wing who quickly became a team leader in his first year with the Nets:

Garrett Temple

STATS: 10.3 PPG | 106.9 DEF RTG

Temple went above and beyond what should’ve been required of him. In a bizarre year, he was a steady presence and voice, handling the role of eldest veteran well.

For the first time in his career, Temple averaged double-digit points per game over the duration of an entire season. However, he logged his worst field goal percentage (37.8%) and 3-point percentage (32.9) since 2013-14.

Temple provided the Nets with solid defense in a year where they struggled in that aspect. As he’s expected to do less on offense, Temple should be able to make even more of an impact on that end of the floor.

Also, something unrelated to his work off the floor or as a VP of the NBPA: Temple made the most of the NBA’s hiatus by studying for the LSAT.

GRADE: B

2019-20 BROOKLYN Nets Report Cards

CARIS LEVERT
SPENCER DINWIDDIE
JARRETT ALLEN
JOE HARRIS
TAUREAN PRINCE
DEANDRE JORDAN