In 1992-1993 Milwaukee Bucks F/C Frank Brickowski was entering his third season in the Cream City and about to have the most offensively-important year of his career. Brickowski had been traded to the Bucks in the summer of 1990 from the San Antonio Spurs and seen his prime bring career-high totals for the two years he’d been in Milwaukee.
That year, the New York native would send in averages of 16.9 PPG, 6.1 REB, 3 AST and a career-high matching 54.5% FG rating. The Bucks finished a dismal 28-54 in the first season with Mike Dunleavy at the helm. The Brick’s usage rate jumped to 23% that year, the highest of his career but still under Hall of Famer and teammate Moses Malone.
Frank Brickowski was a serviceable forward who was most noted for tousling with Dennis Rodman in the 1996 NBA Finals. It’s too bad, since he obviously had very solid numbers throughout his NBA career. In Milwaukee in ’93 he stepped up his game and dusted off his flat-top to help a floundering team to some wins. In this basketball card, titled “Game Faces” it looks as though ol’ Brick is shouting his own name “BRICKOOOOOOOWSKI!”
So what’s the Brick doing now? According to the Internet, Brickowski appears right here in Oregon on a TV show I never watch. It would make sense that he’s got a knack for television, as the back of his card leaves us with this gem, “Brickowski runs the floor and roams the paint well for a man his size partly due to his self-assurance.”
I didn’t know Upper Deck was in the business of psychoanalysis but hey, what else are you going to put on the back of a Frank Brickowski card?
The newest edition to The Hoop Doctors writing staff, Dane Carbaugh is the editor and lead writer of the popular new basketball blog A Young Sabonis. Dane is a published research author and also writes for Dime Magazine and the ESPN TrueHoop Affiliate Portland Roundball Society. He can be found on Twitter at @DaneCarbaugh
