When the Phoenix Suns signed Tom Chambers in the offseason of 1988 as the NBA’s first unrestricted free agent, they knew they were getting a solid power forward.
He had averaged 20+ points per game in each of the previous two seasons (and three of the previous four) including a career-high 23.3 in 1986-97 (the year he was also the All-Star MVP with Seattle) although his average had dipped to 20.4 the following year, his final before joining Phoenix.
They could not, though, have foreseen that he would become the franchise’s single-season leading scorer in his first season (25.