Ben Wallace - All 20 Rebounds, 5 Blocks, and 2 Steals vs. Bulls (2001)

April 3, 2001 - While the 2001-02 season is widely considered Ben Wallace's breakout year, his first season in Detroit, the year prior, featured much of what we'd come from the soon-to-be four-time Defensive Player of the Year. Starting 80 games for a Detroit Pistons team that finished just 32-50, Wallace quietly entered his name as a viable Defensive Player of the Year candidate, averaging 13.2 rebounds, 2.3 blocks, and 1.3 steals. Despite operating in relative anonymity, Wallace finished tied for fifth (alongside David Robinson) in DPOY voting.
2001 Defensive Player of the Year Results: www.basketball-reference.com/...
Box Score: www.basketball-reference.com/...

[@vaultdweller6525]

I'm dying to see Big Ben's highlights that don't include his scoring.

[@TRJ2241987]

You never would have imagined at this time that he would be the coverboy of NBA 2K in a few years. I would have bet a million dollars that would never happen, let alone he would be the first one to replace Iverson

[@vaultdweller6525]

and those were some of the best 2k's ever

[@jarrod1766]

Gotta wonder what the Bulls would've kept Crawford, Artest, Brand and Miller all together. Take J-Rich over Curry and you might have had something

[@Wheelio]

Those Bulls teams were god awful so who knows. Pretty much all of those players blossomed once they left Chicago.