Kenny Sears
- Height: 6-9
- School: Santa Clara
- How acquired: Draft
- Years with team: 7
- Jersey number: 12, 20
- Knicks earnings: *
- * denotes incomplete earnings
The Knicks drafted Kenny Sears, a 6-9 forward from Santa Clara University, with the fourth overall pick in 1955.
Sears spent 6 1/2 seasons in New York. He averaged at least 18 points per game three times, including a career high 21.0 points per game during the 1958-59 season, and averaged at least 10 rebounds per game twice (1957-58 and 1959-60). Sears was named to a pair of All-Star Games with the Knicks -- in 1958 and 1959 -- and led the NBA in field-goal percentage during the 1959-60 and 1960-61 seasons.
The Knicks made the playoffs just once with Sears on the roster, and by the 1960-61 season, New York was one of the worst teams in the league. Injuries had also begun to slow Sears, and at 29 years old, he was a shell of his former self.
He was traded with Willie Naulls to the San Francisco Warriors during the 1962-63 season.
Statistics with Knicks
- Points: 6,854
- Games: 424
- Minutes: 13,622
- PPG: 16.2
- RPG: 9.2
- APG: 1.8
- Rebounds: 3,909
- Assists: 746
- Steals: 0
- Blocks: 0
- Field goals: 2,299
- 3-pointers: 0
- Free throws: 2256
- FG%: 0.452
- 3P%: 0.000