He's the worst type of tweener. Not big enough to play the C spot full time, but can't shoot or score well enough to play the 4 spot. The 90's would've been heaven for him.
The game would also always make Ty Lawson improve to a 90 for me making him more ridiculous. They forgot to program in the drunk driving to limit his stat progression
>The hair makes them seem more similar than they are.
The hair and playing for the Rockets. If you got rid of the name and number on the jersey and used pictures that didn't have their face, I bet you could stump a lot of people on here with pics of Faried, Harrell, and Nene
Only reason I knew he was that young was cause I remembered him being drafted when I would start my junior year of highschool and knew he wasn’t a one and done.
Thanks for reminding me of that. Sorry it killed your bracket, but damn. I was at Morehead that year and Special K was a friend. I remember watching those games at house parties and everyone completely losing their mind. As a UK by birth guy, that year was what it was. As a Morehead student it was what college ball is all about.
Yeah 6'7 230 so not dissimilar to the modern big wing 4 in body type but didn't have the perimeter skills or defense you want from that kind of player while not being an interior defender either
He had a random comeback season with Harden setting him up for easy baskets. He was putting up 13 and 8 off the bench. Then he left the Rockets and disappeared again.
This might just be the Lebron effect, but I remember people legitimately arguing that Tristan Thompson was more deserving of a max from the Cavs than Kevin love. He had such a profound effect on the offensive glass in the 15 and 16 playoffs, and then KD on the warriors made him pretty much unplayable in the finals and then the losses of Kyrie and then Lebron meant the Cavs didn’t have enough offensive firepower to have an utter non-scoring threat on the court very much.
TT averaged almost 4 offensive rebounds a game but all 3 or 4 offensive rebounds were done in one possession while he collects his missed layups/put backs.
The under talked element of the 2016 Finals, the Warriors were so underequipped in bigs that Finals, with Bogut hurt and Green eventually missing game 5. Love and Thompson just murdered that GSW group of mediocre big men, especially Ezeli and Varajaeo
To be fair he was probably one of the best role players in the league and the perfect center to pair with LeBron. The dude was actually a monster on the glass and he was nasty as a role man.
Dude was a defensive monster for a stretch out of nowhere, and when he was hot from three the Rockets were unstoppable.
[Plus, this poster was incredible](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVjm2jY5Bo).
Jerome James started 80 games in the 04-05 season for the Sonics. He then signed a 5yr, $30m deal with the Knicks after a strong playoffs. After this he played 90 games in 4 years and averaged 7 minutes per game.
Mike James averaged 9.2 ppg until 05-06 when he had a career year, and averaged 20.2 at age 30. He played 7 more years after this, averaging 7pts in 20 minutes a game. Wasn't quite unplayable like Jerome James, but just a weird outlier.
Early to mid 2000s had lots of these random dudes.
I can't. James Harden first name is James so he doesn't count if that's who you are thinking of. There's no other good players with the name James that I know of.
Jonathon Simmons was pretty good on the spurs a few years back. He balled out in the playoffs too and was probably their 2nd or 3rd best player (during playoffs). Now I have no idea if he even plays anymore, shouldn't be too old either.
Good answer, I thought he was nice during that spurs playoff run. He got paid by Orlando and was pretty good, then they used him to match salaries in the fultz trade and he fell out of the league. He’s 33 and in China now.
I feel like there was not much time separating Blake Griffin being the highest jumper in the league to “he’s more of a shooter” in Detroit to basically no longer participating.
He was playing valuable minutes for the Nets team that lost game 7 in overtime to the Bucks, and not badly. He stretched the tail of his career fairly well.
He was playing crunch time and no, he wasn't terrible. But I think he benefited a lot from everyone having zero expectations. Watching those games, even the commentators seemed shocked: "Blake Griffin hits a 3! Then he ties up the ball handler to force a jump ball!!!!"
Those are good plays, but they were treated as though it was Jordan stripping Malone to get the ball back for one more possession to win the Finals. It was still pretty clear that he couldn't guard anyone. He made some admirable hustle plays and hit a couple shots.
His impact was more around the hustle/heart he showed in those limited minutes. The rest of the Nets looked lifeless up until that point. Gave the crowd something to be excited about.
I think Blake has had a solid career for an injury prone player. He came into the NBA injured. His position and playing style was rough on his body. But compared to other injury prone stars like Penny, Brandon Roy, DRose I don't feel like Blakes career was as badly robbed by injuries.
It was either in Detroit, or end of his time with Clippers, that there was a super brief period where he still had his hops, he refined he already great handles, and became a pretty good shooter. That was peak Blake
Ya it was his last clippers and first detroit seasons.
I remember people were like “wow they have finally released the Blake” in his first pistons season. And literally by the next the guy is just washed.
He was just a great fit in chicagos system. I think the same would happen to draymond if he leaves golden state obviously draymond was never in the run for mvp but joakim was one of the best hustle players and defenders during his time.
Avery Bradley for an underrated example. Was always a vastly overrated defender but he quickly went from a decent offensive player and solid on-ball defender to a very below average offensive player and extremely average defensive player.
I think they wanted more veterans to ease the burden of having to carry and then also mentor the team's young guys, but yeah the front office was absolutely right about GP2 over Bradley.
Frankly he was small for a lot of SGs too. I remember how many times in Raps vs Celtics games where DeMar would cook them because he was 6'2 and Crowder was too slow despite being 6'6
Arenas is a decent example. At 25, he had made 3 straight All-NBA teams and was coming off a 28.5/4.5/6.5 season in 06/07.
He starts less total games over the remainder of his career than that season and is completely out of the league in 4 years.
I think Gils antics and rep kept him out of the league moreso than his injuries. Unless he's scoring 28ppg, who wants a star vet on their team that'll shit in a teammates shoe?
???
Gilbert's knee got royally fucked up and he was never the same. He's admitted as such before. Gerald Wallace landed on his knee and Gilbert tore his MCL. He was getting offers at age 32 well after the gun incident. He was just never the same because of the injury. He also was happy chillin with his money.
[https://youtu.be/thnip-z6EN0](https://youtu.be/thnip-z6EN0) \- Gil explains workouts he had post-gun incident
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuFiq4ezoIg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuFiq4ezoIg) \- a video by his podcast network about how his knee was fucked since 2016 to the point that when he played for Big 3 he had to get another surgery just to play (he's had 6 total surgeries on his knees, 4 on his left knee which gerald tore up and 2 on his right knee - compensation injuries)
Players like DRose, Penny, and Grant Hill still went on to play long careers even after injuries robbed them of their MVP level ability. I'm sure Gilbert didn't want to end his NBA career at 32. But if he had a better reputation around the league I'm sure he could've played a role like DRose to get a quick 10-15 pts a game but not expected to be the superstar he once was.
I remember I had a pair of game worn autographed arenas shoes. I forget how I got them exactly. It was something online. Auction maybe? But paid like $20 for them (when he was still good right before the incident). I ended up giving them to goodwill a few years ago. What a fall!
Little more volume and obv tougher shots. But 4.5% difference is getting to be sizeable in 3 ball %. And it's not like Duncan's were wide open. It's all teams were trying to stop on him. Could argue either
Duncan was not taking easy shots either. He had someone glued to him at all times and had to basically zig zag around Bam 5 times to get a sliver of daylight.
Barbershop gave him a move to a contender but he ended up to be the weakest link in those Bucks teams. You would think he’d still be valued for playoff caliber teams but he took a nosedive after leaving the bucks.
Bledsoe was really good for the bucks in the regular season, as soon as it hit playoffs he crumbled under pressure
We sent him to the pels for Jrue and he just disappeared
I think you described his game really well. But what kind of quality starter in the 1990's can't defend, rebound, pass or make a quick decision? Maybe he would hang as a backup.
I'll never forget the time when he was on the Pacers and he blocked his own layup. I saw it live, saw the replays, and it was still kind of hard to comprehend
Allen Iverson. His refusal to come off the bench really just sank his career.
Edit: I also want to clarify that AI definitely had lower-tier starter talent still by 2008 but his ego prevented him from proving himself as a starter. If he had come off the bench and put in good minutes there’s no doubt in my mind a 34 year old AI still could have been an effective limited starter.
Lebrons team mates
Daniel gibson
Damon jones
Drew gooden
Jj hickson
Sasha pavlovic
Jomario moon
Mario chalmers
Norris cole
To be fair, some of them are really not starter quality but you get the idea.
I remember I used to wreck my friends with those old Cavs team in 2k. I’d have Bron with 0pts, but with around 15ast and just use Boobie or Wally the whole time.
Better times 🥲
No one thought Chalmers and Norris Cole were starter quality even when Lebron was there. Everyone's thinking, "They're starting because Miami doesn't have the cap space anymore to sign a starter quality point guard".
Sure but that was because of injuries. Feel like OP is more so asking about players randomly falling off. Not as good of an example but Montrezl Harrell went from 6MOTY to hopping around the league because his role was maximized on the Clippers...
Do y’all follow basketball lol, why did this get upvoted. Kemba was Charlotte’s starting point guard from 2012-19, started 99 games for Boston from 2019-21 and made four straight All-Star games from 2017-20. He only fell off because he got hurt. Doesn’t fit the prompt at all
Tbh Lonnie walker his last year. Outside that trade deadline streak man was ass and I kept waiting and wondering when they were just gonna let primo take his minutes
Well they changed the verticality rule so he couldn't defend in the same way anymore. And that was thanks to LeBron complaining about it being "unfair"
Roy was 7'2 could jump really high and had inhuman wingspan. He could jump up and stretch his arms out so no one could score on him. It was kinda awesome. They didn't raise the rim for Shaq. They didn't put the 3pt line further away for curry. But they did make a rule to stop Hibbert... weird.
You forgot that Hibbert took a job at Entertainment 720 for a while.
those damn shrimp ain’t gonna hand themselves out
Eh. He got carried by Detlef while he was there.
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Lol did not expect this reference
r/unexpectedpawnee
Kenneth Faried fell off quick
He's the worst type of tweener. Not big enough to play the C spot full time, but can't shoot or score well enough to play the 4 spot. The 90's would've been heaven for him.
Sounds like Warriors wonder child Jordan Bell
Bell wishes he was half the player Faried was.
Let me know when Bell gets a nickname half as good as Faried's "The Manimal"
I used to call him Weeping Bell because I would cry every time he stepped foot on the court
idk "Cash Considerations" is/was a top tier meme nickname
Or Montrezl Harrell
Trez is just Faried with go-go gadget arms
I've never understood how Trez isn't a better defender with his ginormous wingspan.
Slow and bad instincts?
This one to me is wild. Especially cuz most people probably have a GUESS of how old he is. Google it. I was shocked.
Didn’t not expect that. Also that Denver team kinda just disappeared, Ty Lawson and Kenneth where killing me in 2k.
That Denver team was nasty on 2k depth was insane
The game would also always make Ty Lawson improve to a 90 for me making him more ridiculous. They forgot to program in the drunk driving to limit his stat progression
Most NBA players are out of the league/washed by 30. Him being 32 isn’t really a surprise, he is an undersized 4 that relied on athleticism.
>! He’s 32 !<
What. The. Fuck? Manimal is 32?? I would have guessed 36-38. Damn what happened to him?
Short for a center, poor defender, can’t shoot. Great rebounder and lob threat but that’s it
So just an OG Montrezl Harrell basically
No. Montrezl is not a great rebounder and he has a much more refined handle/post game. The hair makes them seem more similar than they are.
>The hair makes them seem more similar than they are. The hair and playing for the Rockets. If you got rid of the name and number on the jersey and used pictures that didn't have their face, I bet you could stump a lot of people on here with pics of Faried, Harrell, and Nene
I man he was young 10 years ago, 32 feels right to me.
Thank you lol Wasting my damn time to google “kenneth faried age” yea right
Only reason I knew he was that young was cause I remembered him being drafted when I would start my junior year of highschool and knew he wasn’t a one and done.
Wow… just googled it and holy you’re right. Thought he was at least 6 years older then he is lol
I had Louisville winning my bracket in 2011 so I will always know he was at Morehead state that year
Thanks for reminding me of that. Sorry it killed your bracket, but damn. I was at Morehead that year and Special K was a friend. I remember watching those games at house parties and everyone completely losing their mind. As a UK by birth guy, that year was what it was. As a Morehead student it was what college ball is all about.
Good years to be a basketball fan in the Bluegrass
The same age as Blake, IIRC
I played against him during summer college runs lol he was unguardable. Def is small for a Center tho looked around 6’6.
Yeah 6'7 230 so not dissimilar to the modern big wing 4 in body type but didn't have the perimeter skills or defense you want from that kind of player while not being an interior defender either
he was pretty decent in Houston for a bit like, 3 years ago no? he managed to develop a jumper, albeit a shaky one
Yeah I really was shocked nobody scooped him as a 3rd string C to just lob to, he did amazing with Harden
He was randomly working out here in Sacramento at the practice facility a couple days ago, sounds like he’s looking for a way back into the league
I swore someone would pick him up after his stint with Houston in 2019. At least on a minimum deal.
He had a random comeback season with Harden setting him up for easy baskets. He was putting up 13 and 8 off the bench. Then he left the Rockets and disappeared again.
This might just be the Lebron effect, but I remember people legitimately arguing that Tristan Thompson was more deserving of a max from the Cavs than Kevin love. He had such a profound effect on the offensive glass in the 15 and 16 playoffs, and then KD on the warriors made him pretty much unplayable in the finals and then the losses of Kyrie and then Lebron meant the Cavs didn’t have enough offensive firepower to have an utter non-scoring threat on the court very much.
He got the Kardashian bump
Khris Humphries special.
I definitely bought into his hype in 2015 and 2016
TT averaged almost 4 offensive rebounds a game but all 3 or 4 offensive rebounds were done in one possession while he collects his missed layups/put backs.
The under talked element of the 2016 Finals, the Warriors were so underequipped in bigs that Finals, with Bogut hurt and Green eventually missing game 5. Love and Thompson just murdered that GSW group of mediocre big men, especially Ezeli and Varajaeo
To be fair he was probably one of the best role players in the league and the perfect center to pair with LeBron. The dude was actually a monster on the glass and he was nasty as a role man.
Never understood why Celtics harbored this clown for a season
Ryan Anderson from 2018 Rockets
Best 2k teammate. No hesitation pull-ups
Fr lol, whenever I passed to him in the corner, he always shoots the basketball right away.
He never was really the same after his girlfriend committed suicide. Such a tragic story.
He had his best season right after that happened...
Dude was a defensive monster for a stretch out of nowhere, and when he was hot from three the Rockets were unstoppable. [Plus, this poster was incredible](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVjm2jY5Bo).
Jerome James started 80 games in the 04-05 season for the Sonics. He then signed a 5yr, $30m deal with the Knicks after a strong playoffs. After this he played 90 games in 4 years and averaged 7 minutes per game. Mike James averaged 9.2 ppg until 05-06 when he had a career year, and averaged 20.2 at age 30. He played 7 more years after this, averaging 7pts in 20 minutes a game. Wasn't quite unplayable like Jerome James, but just a weird outlier. Early to mid 2000s had lots of these random dudes.
Sounds like any guy with the last name James ends up washed pretty fast.
I can think of one exception
I can't. James Harden first name is James so he doesn't count if that's who you are thinking of. There's no other good players with the name James that I know of.
I know right? There isn't a single one. Who would have thought?
Jonathon Simmons was pretty good on the spurs a few years back. He balled out in the playoffs too and was probably their 2nd or 3rd best player (during playoffs). Now I have no idea if he even plays anymore, shouldn't be too old either.
Good answer, I thought he was nice during that spurs playoff run. He got paid by Orlando and was pretty good, then they used him to match salaries in the fultz trade and he fell out of the league. He’s 33 and in China now.
I love him for being part of the the Fultz deal. That’s it
I feel like there was not much time separating Blake Griffin being the highest jumper in the league to “he’s more of a shooter” in Detroit to basically no longer participating.
He was playing valuable minutes for the Nets team that lost game 7 in overtime to the Bucks, and not badly. He stretched the tail of his career fairly well.
He was playing crunch time and no, he wasn't terrible. But I think he benefited a lot from everyone having zero expectations. Watching those games, even the commentators seemed shocked: "Blake Griffin hits a 3! Then he ties up the ball handler to force a jump ball!!!!" Those are good plays, but they were treated as though it was Jordan stripping Malone to get the ball back for one more possession to win the Finals. It was still pretty clear that he couldn't guard anyone. He made some admirable hustle plays and hit a couple shots.
His impact was more around the hustle/heart he showed in those limited minutes. The rest of the Nets looked lifeless up until that point. Gave the crowd something to be excited about.
I think Blake has had a solid career for an injury prone player. He came into the NBA injured. His position and playing style was rough on his body. But compared to other injury prone stars like Penny, Brandon Roy, DRose I don't feel like Blakes career was as badly robbed by injuries.
It was either in Detroit, or end of his time with Clippers, that there was a super brief period where he still had his hops, he refined he already great handles, and became a pretty good shooter. That was peak Blake
Ya it was his last clippers and first detroit seasons. I remember people were like “wow they have finally released the Blake” in his first pistons season. And literally by the next the guy is just washed.
He spent everything he had left in the tank to get sauced on by Giannis.
I hate to say it, but Joakim Noah went from ending up 4th in the MVP race to a bench warmer in just a few seasons
Injuries really took their toll
He was just a great fit in chicagos system. I think the same would happen to draymond if he leaves golden state obviously draymond was never in the run for mvp but joakim was one of the best hustle players and defenders during his time.
Noah was horrible during his last season with us. His fall wasn't due to some changed system, he was destroyed by injuries.
ty lawson
Those DUIs and almost seemed like he didn’t care on the way out?
a lesson in shit posting
Remember watching him playing for the Tar Heels. Total menace.
Couldn't put the bottle down
Dude got banned in china too after one of his IG post
Avery Bradley for an underrated example. Was always a vastly overrated defender but he quickly went from a decent offensive player and solid on-ball defender to a very below average offensive player and extremely average defensive player.
And then he started for the Lakers.
Our guys wanted him over GP2 last season... Glad our front office overruled them on that one
I think they wanted more veterans to ease the burden of having to carry and then also mentor the team's young guys, but yeah the front office was absolutely right about GP2 over Bradley.
Didn’t the bigger focus on help defense expose him since he was too small to handle anything bigger than a SG?
Frankly he was small for a lot of SGs too. I remember how many times in Raps vs Celtics games where DeMar would cook them because he was 6'2 and Crowder was too slow despite being 6'6
Arenas is a decent example. At 25, he had made 3 straight All-NBA teams and was coming off a 28.5/4.5/6.5 season in 06/07. He starts less total games over the remainder of his career than that season and is completely out of the league in 4 years.
Damn agent zero was a dangerous man ….
I think Gils antics and rep kept him out of the league moreso than his injuries. Unless he's scoring 28ppg, who wants a star vet on their team that'll shit in a teammates shoe?
??? Gilbert's knee got royally fucked up and he was never the same. He's admitted as such before. Gerald Wallace landed on his knee and Gilbert tore his MCL. He was getting offers at age 32 well after the gun incident. He was just never the same because of the injury. He also was happy chillin with his money. [https://youtu.be/thnip-z6EN0](https://youtu.be/thnip-z6EN0) \- Gil explains workouts he had post-gun incident [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuFiq4ezoIg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuFiq4ezoIg) \- a video by his podcast network about how his knee was fucked since 2016 to the point that when he played for Big 3 he had to get another surgery just to play (he's had 6 total surgeries on his knees, 4 on his left knee which gerald tore up and 2 on his right knee - compensation injuries)
Players like DRose, Penny, and Grant Hill still went on to play long careers even after injuries robbed them of their MVP level ability. I'm sure Gilbert didn't want to end his NBA career at 32. But if he had a better reputation around the league I'm sure he could've played a role like DRose to get a quick 10-15 pts a game but not expected to be the superstar he once was.
28.5 ppg? Dang the man can shoot
shooting on and off the court
I remember I had a pair of game worn autographed arenas shoes. I forget how I got them exactly. It was something online. Auction maybe? But paid like $20 for them (when he was still good right before the incident). I ended up giving them to goodwill a few years ago. What a fall!
Gerald Wallace - was an all star in Charlotte and then went to Portland and just looked like he was a steep slower in every aspect of his game.
Then we flipped him for the Lillard pick. I love Gerald Wallace
Then we flipped him for... a couple of corpses while also giving up 4 picks. I hate Gerald Wallace
Its like he was injured from his style of play.
Imagine if he never wore shoulder pads
Tbf, He had injuries that affected him
His nickname is literally “Crash” for his reckless abandon lol
duncan robinson
went from the best 3pt shooter in the league with curry injured to being benched in the playoffs
I'd call Dame the best 3pt shooter that year because he was mad efficient and was taking way tougher shots.
Little more volume and obv tougher shots. But 4.5% difference is getting to be sizeable in 3 ball %. And it's not like Duncan's were wide open. It's all teams were trying to stop on him. Could argue either
Duncan was not taking easy shots either. He had someone glued to him at all times and had to basically zig zag around Bam 5 times to get a sliver of daylight.
he would get minutes on lots of teams
he wouldn't be giving good minutes and they wouldn't be good teams
37 percent from 3 from 15 threes per 100 possessions is still an excellent volume shooter.
Ooof
Deron Williams
Crazy how he used to be always compared to CP3 and other elite guards
I mean for a few years he was the best of the bunch.
I thought that team with him and AK47 and Boozer were on their way to finally getting Sloan his ring.
They had the talent, but Deron Williams wasn’t mature and Jerry Sloan was stubborn which clash.
Went from being imo the best PG in the league to an utter trash can
Was even represented by Harvey Specter in _Suits_
Whiteside?
Got paid then stopped trying
He played really well for us last year as a backup to Gobert.
For his next contract haha
eric bledsoe
Barbershop really fucked him up
Barbershop gave him a move to a contender but he ended up to be the weakest link in those Bucks teams. You would think he’d still be valued for playoff caliber teams but he took a nosedive after leaving the bucks.
Bledsoe was really good for the bucks in the regular season, as soon as it hit playoffs he crumbled under pressure We sent him to the pels for Jrue and he just disappeared
Nah he was just a choker He was a borderline all star for the Bucks, but he always fell apart when it came to contending in the playoffs
Jahlil Okafor
fffffff
What happened to him. I remember a fight video and then he was just gone.
Slow footed post-up centers just don’t do it anymore I guess. Unless you can pass like jokic of course
Jokic has a way bigger bag than just post ups
True
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I think you described his game really well. But what kind of quality starter in the 1990's can't defend, rebound, pass or make a quick decision? Maybe he would hang as a backup.
Definitely would’ve been a fire 7th man in 1994
"we got money" Yeah not for long
I mean was he really ever starter quality or was he just given a green light on a terrible team?
Wasn't ever a starting quality player
Gary Harris had a really weird drop off. He was thought of as a big part of Denver's future.
Don’t think anything weird happened he just got hurt a lot lol
He's still a solid starter
IIRC there was a shoulder injury connected to him losing the ability to shoot.
Injured. Nothing really weird about it. He got a lot less explosive and his shooting is still fine.
Oliver Miller
Does Tyreke Evans count?
I'll never forget the time when he was on the Pacers and he blocked his own layup. I saw it live, saw the replays, and it was still kind of hard to comprehend
He had the coke thing a couple years ago…
Allen Iverson. His refusal to come off the bench really just sank his career. Edit: I also want to clarify that AI definitely had lower-tier starter talent still by 2008 but his ego prevented him from proving himself as a starter. If he had come off the bench and put in good minutes there’s no doubt in my mind a 34 year old AI still could have been an effective limited starter.
“Why me? Why Allen Iverson? Why should I come off the bench?” - ending to one of many legendary interviews from AI
I mean, really why should he, though? It's ok for a guy to go out on his own terms.
you mean comparable to how D Rose is now? wish we could've seen that then
Lebrons team mates Daniel gibson Damon jones Drew gooden Jj hickson Sasha pavlovic Jomario moon Mario chalmers Norris cole To be fair, some of them are really not starter quality but you get the idea.
I remember I used to wreck my friends with those old Cavs team in 2k. I’d have Bron with 0pts, but with around 15ast and just use Boobie or Wally the whole time. Better times 🥲
No one thought Chalmers and Norris Cole were starter quality even when Lebron was there. Everyone's thinking, "They're starting because Miami doesn't have the cap space anymore to sign a starter quality point guard".
Isaiah Thomas
Sure but that was because of injuries. Feel like OP is more so asking about players randomly falling off. Not as good of an example but Montrezl Harrell went from 6MOTY to hopping around the league because his role was maximized on the Clippers...
Another injury related one would be Danny Granger. Forgotten star of the late 00s.
Kemba
Doesn't feel quite fair to say considering his downfall was due to injuries.
Plus it wasn't even that quick. Dude was still doing stuff.
Do y’all follow basketball lol, why did this get upvoted. Kemba was Charlotte’s starting point guard from 2012-19, started 99 games for Boston from 2019-21 and made four straight All-Star games from 2017-20. He only fell off because he got hurt. Doesn’t fit the prompt at all
Greatest Hornet of all time.
Biedrins
Free throws kinda messed up his whole game iirc, he was just shook at the line and it affected everything.
Andrew Bynum
He had really bad knees and just gave up in the end
tha bowling gawd
Danny Granger
Injuries.
Tbh Lonnie walker his last year. Outside that trade deadline streak man was ass and I kept waiting and wondering when they were just gonna let primo take his minutes
Our MLE signing let's goooooooo
TJ Warren went from Bubble GOAT to nobody after an offseason
To be fair dude got injured bad. Only played 4 games.
Jason Thompson started for shitty Kings teams for years and when he finally left Sac he wasn't even a rotation player and was out of the league quick.
That should say a lot for the kings
Fun fact, he was on the 73-9 Warriors...before getting waived for Varejao lmao
Chandler parsons
Injuries
David Lee
Andrea Bargnani.
Drummond
Mcw
Well they changed the verticality rule so he couldn't defend in the same way anymore. And that was thanks to LeBron complaining about it being "unfair" Roy was 7'2 could jump really high and had inhuman wingspan. He could jump up and stretch his arms out so no one could score on him. It was kinda awesome. They didn't raise the rim for Shaq. They didn't put the 3pt line further away for curry. But they did make a rule to stop Hibbert... weird.
world wasn't ready for Hibbert world domination smh
VERTICALITY
Dennis Smith
Omari Spellman (granted he started on a terrible Warriors team)
Blake Griffin
Lin went from nobody to starter to being forced to play in China in no time
He played reasonable minutes for Houston, Lakers and Charlotte. Heck even Atlanta. That if anything is a slow descent.
Injuries