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Oklahoma basketball: Sooners’ Top-Eight NBA Draft picks

By Chip Rouse

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 04: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks to the media prior to the start of the NBA 2K League Draft at Madison Square Garden on April 4, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 04: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks to the media prior to the start of the NBA 2K League Draft at Madison Square Garden on April 4, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) /
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30-31 Oct 1993: Mookie Blaylock of the Atlanta Hawks moves with the ball around Scott Shiles of the Orlando Magic during a pre-season game at the Wembley Stadium in London, England. Mandatory Credit: Clive Brunskill /Allsport
30-31 Oct 1993: Mookie Blaylock of the Atlanta Hawks moves with the ball around Scott Shiles of the Orlando Magic during a pre-season game at the Wembley Stadium in London, England. Mandatory Credit: Clive Brunskill /Allsport /

No. 4 – Mookie Blaylock, Guard, 1987-89

Mookie Blaylock played on arguably the greatest team in OU men’s basketball history, the 1987-88 Sooner team that lost to Kansas in the 1988 NCAA Championship finals. He only played at Oklahoma for two seasons, a transfer from Midland (Texas) Community College, but his No. 10 jersey is one of five Oklahoma jersey numbers that are retired and hang in the rafters at Lloyd Noble Center.

Blaylock is the OU career leader in steals and holds the NCAA single-game and single-season record for steals. He averaged 18 points and 6.3 assists per game in his two seasons at OU.

The New Jersey Nets selected the Oklahoma All-American with the 12th overall pick in the 1989 NBA Draft.

Blaylock’s 13 NBA seasons is one of the longest professional careers by a player from Oklahoma. He averaged double digits in scoring for all but one of those seasons, averaging right at 14 points a game in his career. He continued to be a ball thief in the NBA, averaging 2.4 a game over 13 seasons, along with 6.9 assists.

His best season in the NBA was in 1995-96 with the Atlanta Hawks., one of three teams Blaylock played with in his career. He  16.0 points, 5.5 assists and 2.5 steals per game that season.

Blaylock played in 54 NBA playoff games; all but four were with Atlanta. He played for the Eastern Conference in the 1994 NBA All-Star game.

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