Rick Mahorn
American former basketball playerWikipedia
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Sep 21, 2026
Mark MillerHOST
Might still throw it up later.
Mark MillerHOST
Rick Mahorn from the Pistons, he's 68.
Mark MillerHOST
Cecil Fielder, he hit 50 with the Tigers, he's 63.
Mark MillerHOST
Faith Hill, who apparently ran around on her husband her whole life.
John KeatingHOST
Yeah
George BlahaGUEST
... it'd be hard to argue with Rick Mahorn.
John KeatingHOST
Right.
George BlahaGUEST
He brought to the-
George BlahaGUEST
Rasheed, Uncle Cliff, Cliff Robinson, that is.
John KeatingHOST
Right, yeah.
George BlahaGUEST
Uh, and Rick Mahorn.
George BlahaGUEST
And one of the toughest guys who ever played for us, nobody wanted to mess with, Otis Thorpe, uh-
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speaker_1NARRATOR
This is the Bottom Line Sports Show with Gerald Brown and Rick Mahorn.
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Gerald BrownHOST
Imagine you trade a Chet Holmgren, a Chet Holmgren, for a Giannis Antetokounmpo.
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These guys are athletic as you know what, and you go like, "Oh, my gosh, where's the fundamentals? Where's the pass first mentality?" That's not in the league anymore.
speaker_1NARRATOR
And now here's your host, Gerald Brown and Rick Mahorn.
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Gerald BrownHOST
Yes, indeed.
Lance CaporossiHOST
Anyway, if you were to ask me, which they kind of are indirectly, and I'm answering it, I'm saying Ben Wallace, Dennis Rodman, even though I love the versatility that Dennis Rodman would bring for the 80s Pistons, that team is so underrated defensively.
Lance CaporossiHOST
in history like they're only really remembered for a couple of things and it's primarily violence and it just it kind of sucks because like that team was well ahead of its time in terms of like versatility and how they could play against you like i've been i've just been so fascinated by their lineup like if they wanted to go big and tough they could do that whether it was with James Edwards, Bill Lambert, John Sally, Rick Mahorn, Dennis, didn't matter who it was, they could go big, they could go small.
Lance CaporossiHOST
They had the first, I shouldn't say the first, but they had one of the first fives that could actually stretch the floor.
Lance CaporossiHOST
Now, he wasn't a great rim protector, but he finished possessions by grabbing a good defensive rebound.
Jon GlaserGUEST
They were great teams.
Jon GlaserGUEST
They had this guy named Rick Mahorn, who was a pretty legendary enforcer type player.
Jon GlaserGUEST
Very physical, not the most offensively gifted guy, but a great defender and rebounder.
Jon GlaserGUEST
Big, physical, tough dude.
Jon GlaserGUEST
So after they won their second...
Jon GlaserGUEST
There was an expansion draft and they left, every team had to leave a player or two unprotected for the expansion draft.
Jon GlaserGUEST
They left of all the players, Rick Mahorn unprotected and he got taken.
Jon GlaserGUEST
And I was such a Mahorn fan and I was so upset.
Dan Le BatardHOST
[laughs]
Jonathan ZaslowHOST
Amin Elhassan, Paul Silas/Rick Mahorn story.
Amin ElhassanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We just played the Cavs.
Amin ElhassanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Paul Silas is the head coach.
Amin ElhassanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Paul Silas is a big dude, right? So Paul Silas walks up behind Mahorn and he goes [whooshes] to me, and I'm like, "Yeah, sure, whatever." And I'm like, "Is he gonna scare me or whatever?" And he smacks the ever-loving bejesus out of the back of Rick Mahorn's head.
Amin ElhassanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm talking about [slaps]
Jonathan ZaslowHOST
[laughs]
speaker_0NARRATOR
But two Wallaces are not the baddest Detroit big men of all time.
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That title belongs to Bill Lambert and Rick Mahorn, who put the bad in the bad boy Pistons.
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There wasn't an NBA player in the 80s who wasn't punched, elbowed, or shown to the floor by Detroit's big men, and they long had a reputation for being the dirtiest players ever, especially Lambert.
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While Mahorn was setting hard screens and throwing punches...
Jake ChapmanGUEST
And they threw me in.
Jake ChapmanGUEST
And I was working with Rick Mahorn, The first time I did radio play by play, a bad boy, a legend in his own mind, a great, great broadcaster and not in his own mind, a legend, period, and a great, great broadcaster.
Jake ChapmanGUEST
And and so that kind of eased things for me.
Jake ChapmanGUEST
I had somebody to bounce things off of.
John SalleyGUEST
He was a little boy then.
John SalleyGUEST
Uh, but no, um, I say Isiah Thomas, Adrian Dantley, Dennis Rodman, Bill Laimbeer, Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson, Rick Mahorn, John Long, uh, Michael Williams, Dennis Denbo, James Edwards, Bill Laimbeer.
John SalleyGUEST
Yeah.
John SalleyGUEST
And, and that's, that's a, a group of characters that were, um, cons- Mark Aguirre, sorry, sorry drawers.
John SalleyGUEST
So I learned the most from Detroit.
John SalleyGUEST
I was 22 years old, had a great coach, Chuck Daly.
John SalleyGUEST
I had great, uh, veterans in Adrian Dantley, I always start with him, um, Joe Dumars, uh, Sid Green, Rick Mahorn, Isiah Thomas.
John SalleyGUEST
So I had to learn Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson, really, they, they would whisper things to me.
Lanard CopelandGUEST
If you're a young kid coming in, that older veteran's gonna look after you.
Lanard CopelandGUEST
And I had Rick Mahorn, who played with the Bad Boys, who was on the team as well.
Lanard CopelandGUEST
And I, me, Scotty Brooks and Derrick Smith, Kenny Payne all lived in one side of the apartments where Ri- and, and where Charles Barkley lived in condos on the other side.
Lanard CopelandGUEST
But whenever they went anywhere, he'd always come by and pick me up, take me to dinner, or I'd hang out with him and his family.