All-time Weight Issues Bullets/Wizards team

Benjammin · Post #1 » by **Benjammin** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 1:55 pm

As we celebrate another holiday that involves a fair amount of eating I thought I would offer this. Merry Christmas!

Through the years the Bullets/Wizards have had a number of players with weight issues. Here's a thread to discuss and fondly recollect.

1. John "Hot Plate" Williams-a really great talent, fun to watch, battled weight issues, then had a devastating knee injury.
2. Manute Bol-could not gain weight, but a hard worker. RIP
3. Ladell Eackles- talented, but loved his food.
4. Kevin Duckworth

There's just a few to get you started.

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long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #2 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 2:54 pm

Benjammin wrote:As we celebrate another holiday that involves a fair amount of eating I thought I would offer this. Merry Christmas!

Through the years the Bullets/Wizards have had a number of players with weight issues. Here's a thread to discuss and fondly recollect.

1. John "Hot Plate" Williams-a really great talent, fun to watch, battled weight issues, then had a devastating knee injury.
2. Manute Bol-could not gain weight, but a hard worker. RIP
3. Ladell Eackles- talented, but loved his food.
4. Kevin Duckworth

There's just a few to get you started.

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John Wall each October-- slimmed down by each December.

queridiculo · Post #3 » by **queridiculo** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:57 pm

Honorable mention, Jahidi White, El Capitan Blatche.

BigA · Post #4 » by **BigA** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 5:03 pm

queridiculo wrote:El Capitan Blatche.

AKA Seven Layer Dray

TGW · Post #5 » by **TGW** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 7:39 pm

did't ike austin have weight issues

Benjammin · Post #6 » by **Benjammin** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 10:00 pm

"Dinner Bell Mel" Turpin, RIP.

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AFM · Post #7 » by **AFM** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 10:51 pm

Kevin "eats up every possession" Seraphin

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #8 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 10:53 pm

Ted Leonsis. Though I liked Fat Ted a lot better.

Slim Ted is a hubristic, self-satisfied poser.

Post #9 » by **Ruzious** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:14 pm

Popeye Jones - so fat the named a fried chicken fast food joint after him.

No?

WallToWall · Post #10 » by **WallToWall** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 5:18 am

I always felt like Moses Malone was overweight when he played for the Bullets. I dont know if he really was, or if that was just his body type. Didnt matter...he was a great player and could rebound like crazy. Before there was the round-mound-of-rebound, there was Big Mo.
Kevin Duckworth though...man, I remember when he looked like he was 350lbs sitting on the bench. And then he got suspended because he didnt take care of his body and keep himself in shape. Then we traded him... dont know what happened to him after that.

Edit: Just did a little bit of research on both of them... RIP...crazy that they're both gone....

keynote · Post #11 » by **keynote** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 11:57 am

There was a chubby White center who came off the bench for us in the italicized jersey font era of the late 80s. I thought it was Dave Feitl, but he looks reasonably slim in the (scant few) pics I found of him. Perhaps I'm thinking of someone else?

Edit: ah. Doug Roth. He wasn't chubby so much as he was a touch doughy and unathletic with a soft chin and a bald spot.

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #12 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 2:08 pm

keynote wrote:There was a chubby White center who came off the bench for us in the italicized jersey font era of the late 80s. I thought it was Dave Feitl, but he looks reasonably slim in the (scant few) pics I found of him. Perhaps I'm thinking of someone else?

Edit: ah. Doug Roth. He wasn't chubby so much as he was a touch doughy and unathletic with a soft chin and a bald spot.

Man, Roth had hops. His hands are almost at net level.

Post #13 » by **montestewart** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 9:03 pm

Big Wes would have to be the coach. After he retired as GM, he would come and watch the games on the floor below our section, and he dwarfed the folding chair he was sitting in. One of the ushers told us when he didn't show, it was because his knees couldn't take it, and people were worried about him. That was almost ten years ago, and I haven't seen him at games in some time, other than rare special occasions. Maybe some regulars at games know different?

dobrojim · Post #14 » by **dobrojim** » Wed Dec 28, 2016 4:59 pm

Pervis.

Imagine if he had had a build halfway btw say Dwight Howard and the real Pervis.

Harvey Grant. Funny thing about him was as a Bullet, he could shoot but was rail thin
and could be bullied. Later in his career he was pretty cut but couldn't throw it in the ocean.