3. Sean Higgins – 54th overall pick (2nd round), 1990, San Antonio Spurs
Career NBA stats: 220 games played (27 games started): 15.2 minutes, 6.3 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1 assist per game.
While there are several players in contention for the Mr. Irrelevant spot on our Mr. Irrelevant countdown, Higgins gets the nod for several reasons:
- He has the third-highest points per game average of any Mr. Irrelevant in NBA history.
- NBA legend and then-Nets GM Willis Reed brought the gangly 6’9″ forward to the swamps of Jersey in 1994-95, where Higgins won money off Sleepy Floyd in a game of three-pointers for $50 a pop.
- He was the last of the dying breed of player-coaches, last donning both hightops and a tie for the Albany Patroons of the USBL in 2007.
- He won an NCAA title in 1989, when his Michigan Wolverines defeated Seton Hall, coached by now former Brooklyn Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo.
