Which NBA player did the LEAST with his talent

[Redrifle]

You know, the guy coming out of college that everyone projected to be a hall of famer or at least a 10x all star but just became an after thought. I have one name at the tip of my tongue.

Damn sad. He had all of NY and the East Coast like coming out of URI.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Lamar Odom is a repeat champion.

The real answer to this question is

 

[RichYung]

Adam Morrison?

Edit: well wasn't HOF projected but for what he was doing in college I thought he qualified.

 

[superunknown23]

There are DOZENS of players who underachieved, but it's all relative to a certain degree
For example, DC had a good career but he could've been an all-time top 5 power-forward if he cared

 

[dtownreppin214]

cmon man lamar won chips.

t-mac was nothing but a loser his entire career.

 

[CarltonJunior]

T-Mac was still a great player and at his peak arguably a top 5 player in the league for like a 5 year span. Same for VC. Both just had to carry some pretty bad teams IMO

 

[fifth column]

Lenny Cook, he was on Celtics in summer league

 

[Lefty Gunz]

Could've/should've been one of the GOATs at his position

 

[luckyse7enz]

 

[Redrifle]

Lemar it was a role player on any one of those teams. Come on you know that winning championships doesn't necessarily mean you guided the team to those chips. When Grady had a great career he was a franchise player.

 

[PS5 Pro]

nikka, Flabchise OVERachieved. Look at the pic you posted, what it say under his Flabby grill?

Coming out of college it wasn't known if Flabchise would be as good as he was.

shyt, he wasn't even heavily recruited out of HS

Anywayz, IMO.. well, best candidate I can think of at the moment?

Kwame Brown.

The masses will tell you how terrible he is/was. But he was drafted by the Wizards
I got to see him develop, and most ppl forget that he was a BEAST in DC his first two years.
Tyson Chandler turned out to have a decent career, but not really. He just landed on a Dallas team and brought his defense with him
Kwame Brown made Tyson his whipping boy those early years. And Tyson admitted he was salty that he wasn't #1 pick that year (went #2 to Chicago I believe)
Kwame's career progression was on a higher arc than T.Chandlers was.
And then because Eddie Jordan wanted to discipline him. He sat him out a Playoff game

That infuriated Kwame, he wouldn't come in a game or something. And his career has essentially been over ever since. Situations that didn't suit him followed, now he's working at Jiffy Lube making 13.95hr. His small hands are great for screwing in tiny bolts.

 

[CarltonJunior]

The way I see it, the Lakers don't win those championships without Lamar Odom, and he brought something to the table that I don't think you would have gotten out of any other role player out there. Lamar was a special talent, he ended his career disgracefully but to call him a failure from a basketball perspective is flat out unfair when you look at guys like Mike Beasley, Starbury, and Josh Smith

 

[Diddly Drogba]

the russian Nikolai Volkoff, I thought he would be the next dirk

 

[MikelArteta]

rasheed wallace, derrick coleman, tim thomas, beasley

 

[Doomsday]

Bynum. Could have been the next great big man if he wanted.