ESPN Top 25 Unfulfilled Potential Athletes

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What the hell is Generation K?
In the 1990s, the Mets had 3 great pitching prospects that many people thought would be the 2nd coming of the Atlanta Braves studs (Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz, Avery):

Bill Pulsipher
Jason Isringhausen
Paul Wilson

Injuries basically ended Wilson's career before it ever really got started. He pitched a few years in his late 20s and early 30s.
Isringhausen wound up becoming a closer. Actually a pretty solid closer.
Pulsipher got hurt early and sucked.
 

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I don't like that they included players who clearly suffered major injuries.

Sam Bowie is the most disrespected athlete of the last 35 years.
Dude was LEGIT in college until he got hurt and he really never recovered from it.

The fact that so many people make him the joke of the 1984 Draft by comparing him to Jordan is unfair.
And by the way, Stockton went 16th that year and nobody clowns those other teams for passing up on one of the top 5 PGs of all time.

Carried his entire career by Karl Malone. :umad:
 

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Where in the hell is Marvin Barnes? He was putting up like 24-12 in the ABA while being coked up for a good portion of that time :ohlawd: remembered reading he even embarrassed Dr. J head-to-head in a playoff game outscoring him something like 42-7 (tons of great Marvin Barnes fukkery stories out there tbh, dude was beyond eccentric) but as soon as he got to the NBA the :wtf: side of him wore away at his talent pretty much completely. Cowens when he coached the Celtics around '79 said it was one of the most disappointing cuts he ever had to make because he knew Marvin was the most talented guy out there if he didn't ruin himself with drugs. He was able to live two lives for a while, but drugs wore him out eventually and he didn't get it together when he should've. Easily coulda been something good in the league.
 

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I thought Vince Carter would be on the list. Out of this world talent, but unfortunately, a role player mentality. Imagine if he had Kobe's killer instinct :wow:
 

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Bo does not belong on this list. He is The Notorious B.I.G. of sports history.

Freddy Adu doesn't belong on this list, because nobody gives a chit about soccer.

Generation K is only here because they were on a New York team.
Teams always have young arms that they hype up. Their downfall was that the Mets sucked so
much that they had to rush all of them through the system so fast.

Roy Tarpley may not have the most unfulfilled potential from his draft class. lol
he was the same year as Brad Daugherty, Len Bias, Chris Washburn, Drazen Petrovic, and Sabonis.

Drew Henson was never gonna be great.

If they're including guys who got injured, Ed O'Bannon should've been on here.

Where in the FUCC is Tommie Frazier??
 

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No Len Bias? :mindblown:
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Ehhh that list is kinda weird because you can't control injuries. Especially Bo's and Bowie's were horrible. :francis:
The Vince Young thing is weird too because I remember vividly how he was running wild and doing well his rookie year and even won ROY. Then he just vanished :dwillhuh:
 
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