The ultimate one-club man for each NBA team

There are few bigger honors in major professional sports than spending your entire career with one team. That usually means not only are you loyal to the franchise or club, but they are loyal to you back. And in a day where all that matters in pro sports are winning and revenue, those franchises valued you for a reason, probably because you were an all-time great at the sport.

So we decided to take a look at the players who played the most games for each franchise in the NBA without ever playing for another NBA team. These aren’t the high-quality selections for each team, but the player who played the most games for each NBA team without ever playing for another. (Sometimes that was because their careers were short due to a lack of interest from other NBA teams, though).

In some cases, the player that honor belongs to remains active, opening up the possibility they eventually play for another team. In those cases, we included the inactive one-franchise player with the most games played.

Hawks: Bob Pettit

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Games played with franchise: 792 games over 11 seasons
Stats with team: 26.4 ppg, 16.2 rpg, 3.0 apg, 43.6 FG%

A Hall-of-Fame big man, Bob Pettit’s numbers are almost hard to believe, leading the league in scoring twice and guiding the Atlanta Hawks to a championship in 1957-58.

Nets: Jan van Breda Kolff

Games played with franchise: 434 games over seven seasons
Stats with team: 6.0 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 1.9 apg, 43.9 FG%

Jan van Breda Kolff did play his entire NBA career with the Nets but he also had a two-season stint in the ABA prior to that, suiting up for Denver Nuggets (before they joined the NBA), the Virginia Squires and the Kentucky Colonels over that stretch.

Celtics: John Havlicek

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Games played with franchise: 1,270 games over 16 seasons
Stats with team: 20.8 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 4.8 apg, 43.9 FG%

A two-way force on the wing, John Havlicek played a major part in nearly half of the Boston Celtics’ 17 championships,…