2001 NBA Draft
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Ya he was pretty hyped up a lot.
Bernie Madoff
Banned
1. Kwame Brown (6-11 240 lbs.) Glynn Academy (HS)
Positives: The most gifted player in the draft, Brown is a great athlete with exceptional basketball skills. He can handle the ball like a guard and has a good-looking stroke from 15 to 17 feet. Brown also has good floor vision and passes extremely well. Brown is currently at his best when he faces up and takes people off the dribble using an excellent crossover dribble. Defensively, Brown is a devastating shotblocker with superb leaping ability, timing and reach. Because of his combination of size, strength and skill, Brown is often compared to Chris Webber and Kevin Garnett. At this point, Brown has a much more NBA-ready physique than Garnett had coming out of high school.
Negatives: Unfortunately, Brown does not enjoy posting up offensively and takes far too many three-pointers. Despite Garnett-level skills, Brown has yet to demonstrate the burning competitiveness that Garnett exhibited at the same stage of development.
Prognosis: Perhaps the best way to describe Kwame Brown is to say that he has the frame and physical skills of an Antonio McDyess and the basketball skills of a young Danny Manning. Brown could develop into a potential franchise player if he works hard on his game. Peak Projection: 22 ppg 10 rpg 4 apg 2.5 bpg
Positives: The most gifted player in the draft, Brown is a great athlete with exceptional basketball skills. He can handle the ball like a guard and has a good-looking stroke from 15 to 17 feet. Brown also has good floor vision and passes extremely well. Brown is currently at his best when he faces up and takes people off the dribble using an excellent crossover dribble. Defensively, Brown is a devastating shotblocker with superb leaping ability, timing and reach. Because of his combination of size, strength and skill, Brown is often compared to Chris Webber and Kevin Garnett. At this point, Brown has a much more NBA-ready physique than Garnett had coming out of high school.
Negatives: Unfortunately, Brown does not enjoy posting up offensively and takes far too many three-pointers. Despite Garnett-level skills, Brown has yet to demonstrate the burning competitiveness that Garnett exhibited at the same stage of development.
Prognosis: Perhaps the best way to describe Kwame Brown is to say that he has the frame and physical skills of an Antonio McDyess and the basketball skills of a young Danny Manning. Brown could develop into a potential franchise player if he works hard on his game. Peak Projection: 22 ppg 10 rpg 4 apg 2.5 bpg
You think MJ destroying him mentally had anything to do with him being a bust? I wonder what his career would be like if he didn't get drafted by the Wizards.
954UAlreadyknow
All Star
Perhaps the best way to describe Kwame Brown is to say that he has the frame and physical skills of an Antonio McDyess and the basketball skills of a young Danny Manning. Brown could develop into a potential franchise player if he works hard on his game
He had bad hands but I definitely think MJ destroyed any chance at him developing. You can't have the GM of the team, out there playing games and in practices calling a 18-19 year old kid a "flaming fakkit" and expecting positives results. It's probably why his own sons suck at basketball so much and if that were my son I would have hit Jordan in the leg with a baseball bat.
Just like Darko, Kwame was absolutely destroyed before he got a chance to develop into anything.
The bolded should have been a red flag. If Im a GM and I have to question your drive and desire for the game I'd K.I.M.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
at how wrong all of this is.i never saw any of this in DC, and anywhere else in the NBA.
I think Jordan hurt him, but I also think Kwame never had it mentally. Bad hands, not the hardest working player, and he went to a horrible franchise who has no history of developing big men.
I also feel Kwame would have been found out in college too
That boy was weak and his hands were small so he could never hold onto the ball (no homo)
Oh well, that's my Wizards
Oh well, that's my Wizards
Offthegrid
All Star
i was in 6th grade n was at the roundball game classic in 01 i thought tj ford eddy curry will bynum was all goin to the nba brown seemed weak to me maybe cause of his size and he was athletic but i didnt get da ype either mj been fukin up since june 98