charles richard "bubba" wells (born july 26, 1974) is an american former professional basketball player, playing mostly for minor leagues. he played collegiately for austin peay state university and was named 1997 ohio valley conference player of the year. selected 34th by the mavs in the 1997 nba draft, the little-used small forward's nba career was short-lived, consisting of just 39 games of the 1997–98 season. however, he did start two games in march 1998, in place of the injured cedric ceballos. his brief nba career did feature one memorable game where he set the record for the shortest amount of playing time (less than 3 minutes) before fouling out, as part of a failed strategy to intentionally foul dennis rodman (a notoriously bad free throw shooter) to limit his scoring.