There is now only one NBA player left to wear the number 6 as it was not required to change your current number.<\/p>\n
Now, let’s talk about the Cav\u2019s number 6.<\/p>\n
Larry Nance Sr. – 1988<\/p>\n
Although his number 22 is retired by the Cavs, in 1988 when he was traded to the Cavs, he was originally locked out of wearing the 22 in honor of Jim Chones. When he arrived he was given the number as a placeholder until the switch was made.<\/p>\n
He never ended up playing an official game in the number 6 due to his popularity when he got to Cleveland. Then Cavs owner Ted Stepien allowed the change and he went on to wear the number the fans know him for.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0Mitchell Butler – 1998-1999<\/p>\n The actual first person to wear number 6 was Mitchell Butler which is late into the franchise\u2019s history. Butler wore the number 6 for the Cavs in 49 games and 4.2 points a game. He was a great shooter as well averaging nearly 40% from three.<\/p>\n Shannon Brown – 2007-2008<\/p>\n Known later in his career as a high flyer on the Lakers, Brown spent his first season and a half in Cleveland before he ended up on the Bulls in a massive 11-player trade t<\/a>hat got Ben Wallace and Wally Szczerbiak.<\/p>\n In his gametime, he played 38 games and averaged 5 points.<\/p>\n Manny Harris – 2011-2012<\/p>\n He might be the player with the most games in the number 6 in Cleveland. Manny Harris played in 80 Cavs games averaging 6.2 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a famous incident while on the team, he was using a cryo chamber for recovery and suffered burns on his feet so bad the Cavs released him after.<\/p>\n Andrew Bogut – 2017<\/p>\n 58 seconds, that was how long Bogut\u2019s career in Cleveland lasted before he was released. He arrived in Cleveland in his very first game in less than a minute his entire season ended as he would fracture his tibia <\/a>defending a three pointer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Javale McGee – 2021<\/p>\n One of the more recent players in the number 6. McGee played under JB Bickerstaff’s team and was often getting some \u201cPoint-Javale\u201d minutes.<\/p>\n In 33 games he averaged 8 points and 5 boards before being traded at the deadline that season.<\/p>\n Ben Uzoh, Jerome Moiso, Earl Clark, Moses Brown, and most recently Kevin Pangos were other names to have worn the number.<\/p>\n
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