Bradley Donn Sellers (born December 17, 1962 in Warrensville Heights, Ohio) is an American former professional basketball player. A 7'0" power forward/center from Ohio State University, he was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the first round (ninth pick overall) of the 1986 NBA Draft.
Sellers was a controversial selection among the Bulls' staff and players. General manager Jerry Krause was attracted to Sellers because of his above-average shooting ability, which was rare in a player of Seller's size. Michael Jordan and others, however, had wanted Krause to draft Johnny Dawkins, a hard-playing guard from Duke University and a friend of Jordan retires/archive/871109/" target="_blank">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/1999/jordan_retires/archive/871109/. Sellers eventually became a part-time starter for the Bulls, but he never averaged more than 9.5 points or 4.7 rebounds in a season, and with the emergence of forward _Scottie Pippen during the 1988 NBA Playoffs, he began to see his playing time diminish retires/archive/880516/" target="_blank">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/1999/jordan_retires/archive/880516/. In 1989, he was finally traded to the _Seattle SuperSonics for the 18th overall pick of the NBA Draft, which would become B. J. Armstrong.
Though widely considered a disappointment among Bulls fansthread/thread/54c7312e366e0ef7/e96a7e046869ac08?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#e96a7e046869ac08" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sports.basketball.nba.chicago-bulls/browse_thread/thread/54c7312e366e0ef7/e96a7e046869ac08?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#e96a7e046869ac08 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sports.football.pro.chicago-bears/browse_thread/thread/e42b917383172f93/fe77891bd53bc5db?lnk=st&q=&rnum=10&hl=en#fe77891bd53bc5db, Sellers did have an important role in one of the Bulls' most famous plays: he inbounded the ball to Michael Jordan for _The Shot, Jordan's series-clinching jump shot against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1989 NBA Playoffs great_shots.html" target="_blank">http://www.nba.com/bulls/history/ten_great_shots.html. It should also be noted that none of the players selected after Sellers in the first round of the 1986 draft-including Johnny Dawkins-ever became NBA All-Stars, though Dawkins had a longer and more productive NBA career and is seen as the successor to Mike Krzyzewski at Duke.
Sellers also played briefly for the _Minnesota Timberwolves and the Detroit Pistons before leaving the NBA in 1993 to embark on a lengthy overseas career. Sellers played in Spain, Israel, Greece, and France before retiring in 2000 to become community liaison director for his hometown.
