Milk Carton All-Star of the Week

With the NBA playoffs in full swing, we thought we'd dedicate everyone's favorite weekly honor to former hardwood legend. Being a guy who gives credit where credit's due, I'll have to tip my Kangol to Gabe for this suggestion(because we were thisclose to handing this award to So Taguchi).

Voshon Lenard was the 44th pick in the 1994 NBA Draft, a draft that featured notorious wife-beater and coach killer Jason Kidd, the always durable Grant Hill(sarcasm alert), NBA sex symbol Donyell Marshall and the last great Seminole quarterback Charlie Ward...among others. Now, if Stoney Case is Yiddish for "journeyman", than Voshon Lenard is "journeyman" in Swahili.

Lenard racked up the frequent flyer miles during his 12-year career. After never playing so much as a nano-second with the Bucks, the team that drafted him, Lenard finally got his shot with the Miami Heat. Lenard's role was as a Hersey Hawkins-type, a jitterbug combo guard who came off the bench to give the team his sharp-shooting and energy. After five years in Miami, Voshon was dealt to Denver for Chris Gatling and a 2nd round pick that ended up being Eddie House(who would go on to a Voshon Lenard-type career). It would be the first of two stints with the Nuggets for Lenard. After playing for two years in the Rockies, Lenard went up north to ball with the Toronto Raptors. Realizing he was one of about five black guys in Canada, Lenard signed back with the Nuggets the next year so he could be come one of twenty black guys in the state of Colorado. After three years in Denver, Lenard was part of a four-team trade that involved a slew of guys you wouldn't recognize if they served you at Sizzler(yes, Sizzler, not Denny's, that's why it's a joke. Keep up, people). The guys involved in that 2006 blockbuster: Lenard, Vitaly Potapenko, Charles Smith, Reggie Evans, Ruben Patterson and Sergei Monia. I'll take "Anonymous NBA players" for $400, Alex.

Lenard had two big achievements during his career: Winning the 3-point shootout in 2004 which was won by such legendary TV personalities as Tim Legler and Steve Kerr as well as finishing 3rd in the Malik Yoba look-a-like contest and even doing one episode as Yoba's stunt double in "New York Undercover".....I may have made that up. Look, Lenard wasn't horrible as an fringe NBA entity. He averaged 11 points per game for his career and career averages of 38% from 3 and 41% from the field. Still, he's hardly recognizable to the untrained eye. Even if you take a good look at this picture we posted of him, the first thing that jumps out at you is the baby face of a young Pau Gasol.

Regardless of his irrelevance, let's take this time to honor the Fred Carter of his day.....Voshon Lenard, everybody!