Minnesota Timberwolves: Top 30 Scorers in Franchise History

#8 – Tony Campbell

Tony Campbell was a member of the inaugural 1989-90 Timberwolves squad. At the time, he was already five-year NBA veteran after having averaged just 6.4 points per game between the Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Lakers.

But in Minnesota, the 27 year-old Campbell joined a roster with 27 year-old Tyrone Corbin, 26 year-old Sam Mitchell, a rookie Pooh Richardson, and not much else in the way of legitimate, NBA-caliber talent.

Sure enough, he led the team in minutes and in scoring, dropping 23.2 points per game that season and 21.8 points per contest in 1990-91. He was a decent distributor but didn’t do much else on the floor; not a great rebounder despite his size, and he didn’t shoot threes or draw a bunch of fouls.

Overall, however, he took on the scoring burden of the early Wolves teams and did what he was asked to do, and he landed at sixth all-time on the Wolves career scoring list. Campbell was simply a solid NBA player in his own right who took advantage of an opportunity — he only averaged double-figures in points per game one time in his non-Wolves NBA career, ultimately finishing with just an 11.6 points per game lifetime scoring average.

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