Toni Kukoc is known mostly for winning three championships alongside Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen with the Chicago Bulls, along with drawing their ire in the Olympics, but for a brief moment, he played for the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Sixers acquired Kukoc from the Bulls at the 2000 deadline and he played 80 games for them before he was sent to the Atlanta Hawks at the 2001 deadline in the big Dikembe Mutombo deal. Overall, Kukoc averaged 9.8 points and 3.8 rebounds in Philadelphia.
HoopsHype ranked the top 50 European players of all timeand Kukoc comes in ranked No. 14 on the list:
Toni Kukoc was a terrific all-around player, so crafty and smooth with the ball in his hands yet tenacious when he needed to be. Kukoc played a big role in three
championship teams for the Bulls, though things didn’t go so well when he was tasked with being the No. 1 guy post-Last Dance. You don’t often see winning runs like the one he had between 1989 and 1998.
Kukoc is in the Hall of Fame after a terrific career with the Bulls, Sixers, Hawks, and Milwaukee Bucks. He won 6th Man of the Year in 1996 with Chicago.
This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: Former Sixers F ranked among greatest European players of all time
