At Oakland's Skyline High he played beside Gary Payton, and at UTEP he ran with Tim Hardaway on two WAC title teams. The Washington Bullets took the 6-foot-11 center 35th in the 1990 draft, and Foster stretched that into 13 NBA seasons with nine franchises, reaching three Finals as a reserve — twice with the 1997 and 1998 Jazz, plus a championship ring with the 2001 Lakers.
Coaching became the second act: player development with the 76ers, then assistant jobs in Milwaukee, Atlanta and Indiana. He went back to UTEP to finish his bachelor's degree in 2011. He and his wife have a son and two daughters, and he still carries a high school tattoo reading Bowie — friends thought he resembled center Sam Bowie.
HOW HE CAME & WENTHe signed a one-year contract in October 1995 and stayed four seasons and both Finals runs. In February 1998 the Jazz traded him and Chris Morris to Orlando for Rony Seikaly — and got them both back two days later when Seikaly refused to report.
No photograph of this signature is online yet.
| SEASON | TEAM | G | MPG | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995–96 | UTA | 73 | 11.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | .439 | .125 | .847 |
| 1996–97 | UTA | 79 | 11.6 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | .453 | .667 | .831 |
| 1997–98 | UTA | 78 | 18.5 | 5.7 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | .445 | .222 | .770 |
| 1998–99 | UTA | 42 | 10.9 | 2.8 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | .377 | .250 | .619 |
| JAZZ TOTAL | 4 SEASONS | 272 | 13.3 | 4.1 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | .436 | .250 | .796 |
Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗ · Wikipedia ↗