NBA: Biggest NBA bust of all modern time?
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I went with Oden based on who was picked at #2. Bennett stunk, but so did much of the 2013 lottery.
I'd say Bennett, but it's more a case that he shouldn't have been a #1 pick.
I have a hard time saying someone is a bust due to injuries. He was a good NBA player when healthy.
I don’t count Oden as a bust because it was injuries that derailed him. The other guys were just not good. I think Keene Brown is the biggest on the list. Bennet was in a really weak draft.
The best player in the NBA currently was in that draft. It was a really poorly evaluated draft.
Greg Oden was the most obvious one of all time.
1. He was never able to be dominant on offense even when "healthy" in college.
2. He ran like he had the knees of a 95 year old man and was already struggling with injuries.
3. The #2 pick was probably the most obvious can't-miss pick since LeBron James.
I absolutely could not believe that any team would consider using a #1 pick on him when Durant was out there. It was absolute insanity that a lot of people just somehow went along with.
1. He was never able to be dominant on offense even when "healthy" in college.
2. He ran like he had the knees of a 95 year old man and was already struggling with injuries.
3. The #2 pick was probably the most obvious can't-miss pick since LeBron James.
I absolutely could not believe that any team would consider using a #1 pick on him when Durant was out there. It was absolute insanity that a lot of people just somehow went along with.
Yeah dude got hurt twice. He was absolutely the correct number one pick in that draft
On that list, Morrison would have to be the choice
brown never had a chance with Jordan beating him up. Bennett and thabeet were over drafted because they quality of their draft class.
And jimmer was a sideshow
Wasn't part of the logic for taking Oden "7-footers don't grow on trees!" type of thing? Maybe I'm mis-remembering, I'm not a big draft-history expert.
Wasn't he hurt in college also? Harder to blame injuries when he already has the problem and people take him anyhow.
It was between Oden and Bennett for me, but went with Bennett due to being a #1 overall draft pick
Gotta be Bennett. For some reason I put him in a different category because, as best I can remember, he wasn't hurt. He just was bad.
You gotta add Jahlil Okafar to that list. 5 star recruit, 3rd pick overall, now averaging only 15 minutes a game in what should be his prime years.
