1. Cedric Ceballos
To be fair, Cedric Ceballos was good for more than just one season with the Los Angeles Lakers, but if you compare his short tenure with the team to the rest of his career, it absolutely looks like a one-hit-wonder.
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Ceballos played on the Lakers for all of the 1994 and 1995 season and played eight games with the team in 1996 before being traded to the Phoenix Suns for Robert Horry, who made a career out of hitting big shots and did so with the Lakers.
Ceballos was an all-star one time in his 11-year NBA career, coming with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1994. In that season he averaged 21.7 points and eight rebounds per game. While he was not an all-star the following season, he still averaged 21.2 points per game.
In that second season, Ceballos also had a 50-point game, which was the first instance that had been done on the Los Angeles Lakers in over 20 years, although it would regularly become a staple of the franchise with Kobe Bryant.
Ceballos is the definition of a one-hit-wonder. He had only one all-star appearance in a career that lasted over a decade and never averaged 20 points per game for the rest of his career.
He tried holding onto his playing career, playing in leagues in Europe and the Philippines as well as the ABA and the IBL. Similar to a one-hit-wonder artist playing in smaller venues but capitalizing on their big names later in their careers.
Regardless, Ceballos was great for the Los Angeles Lakers during his short tenure with the team and he definitely gave the team some memorable moments.