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Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 8:45 pm
by ardthomp
Sitting at work and we are talking about some of the worst draft picks and guys that blew up for a season or two and then fizzled out. Who are your faves? I won't post my faves right now, because I want to see who you guys come up with.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:12 pm
by MNPacersfan
I want to work where you do. All I get here is Go-phers!
I only have time for top #1 busts:
Olowokandi
Kwame Brown
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:38 pm
by mizzoupacers
Darko, God bless him!
I hate to think where the Pistons would be now if they had drafted Wade, Bosh, or Carmelo instead.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 11:57 pm
by Scoot McGroot
ardthomp wrote:Sitting at work and we are talking about some of the worst draft picks and guys that blew up for a season or two and then fizzled out. Who are your faves? I won't post my faves right now, because I want to see who you guys come up with.
Looking for someone who showed promise and then disappeared? I'm thinking Dajuan Wagner for the Cavs and Mike Sweetney for the Knicks. Those two stand out to me. Channing Frye was much the same and then came back on to be a useful player in Phoenix, but Knicks fans were heralding him as their savior at the big spots.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 1:13 am
by ardthomp
MNPacersfan wrote:I want to work where you do. All I get here is Go-phers!
I only have time for top #1 busts:
Olowokandi
Kwame Brown
I do web design for my brother's company, so it is pretty laid back.
I did have Dejuan Wagner on my list. I also had Doug Smith on there.
A guy that flamed out - Harold Miner.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:37 am
by Miller4ever
I want to give some recognition to Clark Kellogg. Not exactly a bust or a flame-out, but a rather unfortunate example of injuries in the NBA.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 9:45 am
by Gremz
Sam Bowie.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:46 pm
by MNPacersfan
If you're throwing injuries into it, Danny Manning has to make the list. Penny Hardaway?
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 6:52 pm
by chrbal
Rafael Araujo. When drafting for need blows up horribly in your face.
Araujo spent two years at junior college in Arizona before heading north to play for BYU in Provo, Utah. He did play well in a mid-major conference and was awarded Co-Player of the Year in the Mountain West as a senior in 2004.
He was a near 7-footer who not only couldn’t block shots – as evident by his .10 career blocks per game average – he simply couldn’t finish around the basket. Looking back on it six years later, it’s easy to jump on Toronto’s terrible move now, but honestly, even in 2004 it was hard to find reasons to agree with the decision.
I remember watching Araujo play at Air Force when I was a junior in high school, the same year that he was eventually drafted. All I remember was how ridiculously surprised I was that Araujo was even on the NBA’s draft radar and that Toronto must have accidentally selected the wrong Rafael Araujo; the guy was being pushed around by 6-5 and 6-6 Air Force cadets.
Thats from a Dime Magazine "Where are they now?" article. I honestly remember reading up before that draft and figuring that he would go late 1st/early 2nd round. THEN he goes 8th overall.
The last thing I will leave you with, I could go on and on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH0TLeAn ... r_embedded
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:24 pm
by MNPacersfan
On the TOR tip. Is it too early to call Charlie Villanueva a flameout?
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:47 pm
by chrbal
Hes been bad, but I wouldn't call him a flameout.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:53 pm
by PDX MM
Len Bias has to be mentioned. Least the other guys listed so far in this thread played in the NBA
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 2:03 am
by PR07
Villanueva can score; he just doesn't do much else to help a team win.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 8:56 pm
by ardthomp
I can still remember the draft night trade sending Dirk Nowitzki to Dallas from Milwaukee for Robert "Tractor" Traylor....ooops!
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 11:05 pm
by chrbal
It was the rights to Dirk and Pat Garrity for Tractor Traylor. Which was good and all. They then trade his rights with Bubba Wells, Martin Muursepp, and a 1st round pick for Steve Nash. 1st part I knew, Nash trade I forgot.
So Traylor, Wells, Muursepp, Garrity, a 1st round pick (which became Shawn Marion) for Steve Nash and Dirk. I would do that trade over and over.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:29 am
by Miller4ever
That's three MVP's between those two guys.
Re: Draft Busts and Flame-outs
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:45 pm
by jowglenn
Adam Morrison!
What a classic bust. Great scorer in a weak conference in college, kind of crazy, obviously not NBA body, had diabetes, huge hype and hipster cred. MJ drafted him, tried to play him a lot, guy got totally outmatched and ended up traded moments later. will likely never play another nba game.