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- While we all love to hate on notable NBA Draft Busts, what a lot of people tend to overlook about these guys is that there was a real reason they were drafted, and in some cases, they had some incredible streaks where all of their potential came together perfectly! Please like, sub, and hopefully I see you in the next video!
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I'll always remember what Brian "the Goat" Scalabrine used to say, "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me." They are busts, but they are still professional athletes.
Yep and this is right after beating these guys three times in a row 21 zip even though they say he had a mediocre career he still is as you said a professional athlete at the end of the day.
Scalabrine was the dude that didn't belong but still put up 10-12 points.
@@ikedatike2533historically bad career. But still better than an aau player.
@@MichaelThompson-ux6nn That is true. That is true.
Has quite literally nothing to do with this video obviously they’re professional athletes
I genuinely believe that Darko Milicic wasn't a bust. Darko is an example of a player who was drafted into the wrong situation. Larry Brown has gone on record before to say that regardless of who was drafted that year, they wouldn't have seen alot of playing time considering the fact that the Pistons were already well equipped to compete for an NBA championship & got that pick off of a trade. On top of that, Larry Brown was an old school coach who didn't like playing rookies. If you don't have a coach or a team that has no faith in you, it'll only serve to stunt your development & growth as a player. Not saying that he was a justified pick over Melo, but I think that if he would've been drafted into a much better situation, he could've been a decent starter caliber center.
Why did Pistons not trade that pick?
What else to you expect to the front office of the team that drafted him@@zhihuangxu6551
If Melo was selected he'd probably have an eerily similar career path to James Harden, where he starts as a good bench player for a strong team then leaves after his rookie deal to become to focal point of a different team and reach his true potential
Bosh and Wade would probably get ruined in such a circumstance too though
@@jonathand.t.5051 thats the best case scenario the worst case would be Melo's ego and coach Brown's philosophy clashing causing an unsteady locker room atmosphere
@@neilbryanbucsit197he would be a roookie fresh to the league he wouldn’t have a ego there would be no credentials for him to make any demands. Rookies don’t make the rules in the nba
Much respect for this video man! As a person who watches sports content on a daily basis, this was truly a fresh concept… i don’t think I’ve ever seen a video with this theme regarding any sport and it was rational, organized, and well executed… keep up the good work man!!!
Thank you 🙏🏿
Great video, we need more positivity when it comes to these guys. They all work their butts off just to get to the NBA and that is a huge feat by itself.
Teenagers fulfilling their childhood dream and becoming professionals making millions can NEVER be a bust...the organizations that pick them and fumble their talent and ruin their careers are the real busts. Any single 1 of these "busts" could've been HOFers had they been with the right organization and people.
Idk if Darko could've been what he said, but he could be like, a like, JJJ or something
That's just literally not true.
This is dumb as hell some of those guys were not NBA ready Kwame Brown dominated against smaller players in highschool that shit didn't transfer to the league.
He had small hands, couldn't defend, and had no basket move you can't coach that into being a Hof
@@DonSMDT Zubac not JJJ
I love Disappointed Knicks Kid.
That's my dude right there.
*Great video, keep grinding my boy!*
Thank you bro 🙏🏿
Man Cleveland keep catching strays
You noticed that too?
I'm glad to see the Knicks are way better than a few years ago
I don't believe that darko is a bad player. Bcoz he can protect the rim and he has no fear. NO FEAR.
If darko cud have played in a team like GSW where he didn't need to score pts and just set screens for steph and klay and just block out the rim, he is very capable. And he has NO FEAR
I have a hard time agreeing with this. Detroit was a championship team with a generational defense and one of the best Shooters at the time Rip Hamilton. They were not asking Darko to be the focal point, but it didn't matter.
Quitting basketball to do kickboxing is something you don't see everyday though. I only know of the one debut match. Did he ever fight a match again after that?
@@Dilemina even ben wallace and rasheed wallace like darko. He wasn't used that much bcoz he was a rookie and coach brown don't play rookies. But still they get the job done and beat the 3x fake champion lakers.
Darko blocked dwade and LeBron on the same game. Min vs mia. So they send magloire to elbow darko to injure him and get him out of the game.
But it was true, when darko was in Minnesota he was legit shot blocker, avg 2 to 3 blks a game. And he has NO FEAR
@@layuponthedownlowFake champion Lakers 😂😂 the guys who 3peat and then won back to back post Shaq era 😂😂 Pistons haven't been good since 2007
@@layuponthedownlow"he has no fear" cringe as hell Darko was a good shot blocker but that's it you wasn't getting shit else from the guy a player with "NO Fear" is someone like Kobe and Darko ain't near that level of greatness
Unique idea for an NBA video. Many situations like these and in an 82-game season, there's bound to be some games where some of these busts look really good. Looking forward to a part 2. Marvin Bagley, baby!
Loved this. Thanks for the vid!
With Darko, it was just unfathomable they'd take a guy who had no spot on their depth chart. Project players don't develop if they don't get minutes. Detroit obviously knew they had a good thing going, and they ended up winning the championship after Sheed fell into their laps. The only other real option was to take Melo (I think there would have been blowback if they'd taken Bosh and people forget that the media were startled that Wade went as high as he did). I'm of the opinion that, if there's a must-draft superstar at your draft position, if you're not going to bet ON him, bet AGAINST him. A lot of teams would have probably given up multiple first round picks and likely a few key bench guys for Melo. Even if those teams developed into mid-draft-level teams, hey, you're a contender, right? The middle of the draft is exactly where you pick out people with niche talents that can plug into your lineup, and he might have gotten a windfall of great picks.
Had they actually taken Melo, they don't win the 2004 title. Botching the pick won them a title. But, they could have set themselves up for years and they didn't. It's unfathomable they took Darko, not because of what he became, but because a player as smart as Joe Dumars should have known he never had a chance to develop on the Pistons, barring injury to Ben Wallace and Elden Campbell. Meanwhile, if the team that got Melo finishes in the middle of the league, future first rounders who were taken out of the lottery were Al Jefferson (#15 in 2004), Danny Granger (#17 in 2005), David Lee (#30 in 2005), Rajon Rondo (#21 in 2006) and Kyle Lowry (#24 in 2006). And hell, if the team with Melo tanked worse and ended up in the lottery, who knows? It really feels like Dumars had unlimited options with that pick and did the worst thing possible with it, and he was the reigning Executive of the Year. I still can't believe it, twenty years later. Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, Darko was the best player on a championship team and everyone compares Jokic to him.
I know this is my 3rd comment in the same 24 hrs, but you're my new favorite TH-camr. This is the type of work ESPN was doing when I grew up. When we were getting real stories.
Thank you man! Welcome aboard, and I appreciate all of the support 🙏🏿
Nice editing boss!
I like those series plz do more
Kwame also wasn't ready to go to the nba, he knew it as he had a deal to play in the ncaa but still had to go because his family needed the money
7:15 sounds crazy but for some reason I don't think I'll ever forget that Dumars/Aldridge interview.
Pretty sure after asking Dumars if they're gonna pick Darko or Melo, Dumars beat around the bush and Aldridge turned and looked at the camera and goes "It's Darko folks" 😂😂😂 yikes..
Well that was a heck of a video wasn’t it? I enjoyed every moment of it!
As a lifelong Cavaliers fan i still get PTSD when thinking about Anthony Bennett
😭😭😭😭🤣🤣
As a lifelong Cleveland fan... Who?
@@codyeble0713 I am
As a basketball fan he is major major disappointment
Amazing vid idk what else to say
You've got what it takes!!
🙏🏿
Kwami brown did have the POTENTIAL that Mike had because he (brown) came out of high school and was a hell of a talent. The wizards drafting him did him no favors.tho He was decent for the lakers.
Kwame is lucky he didn't play in today's era with the social media criticizing you every game.
As a Lakers fan i would still pick Zo over Tatum 10/10 times
1 we traded him for AD anyway
2 if healthy i believe that Zo is generational talent.
Lol
Jus found your channel n been binging some of your other videos but u lost me with the Kwame Brown had a dominant 3 game stretch lmaoo
If Kwame would have went to any other team he could have developed to be as good as Jermaine O’Neal was 🔥
I dont care what yall say. They are not a bust if they spend 10 plus years in the league.
Kylian Hayes is bigger bust than Darko that’s for sure.
Just subbed
The real redeem team forget the Olympics
NBA has drafted 100+ French Players in 20 years
Only less than 10 of them become good and decent players
just Wemby, Gobert, Batum, Fournier, Diaw, Tony Parker …
Plenty of Draft Busts from France
We can’t even remember their names
I have a feeling these young French guys are gonna change that with Wemby, Sarr, Coulibally, Risacher, Salaun, Dieng. And I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of the French players taken in the last few drafts end up showing out.
most of the so called nba draft busts are not their fault. it doesn't matter how good a player they are, if they end up on the wrong team, wrong coach, wrong team mates, they won't blossom. for example: Andrew Wiggins 2014 number 1 pick
As a lifelong Cavs fan, my team drafted Anthony Bennett with the No. 1 pick in 2013 and CLE won the NBA Finals in 2016. I'm good! 😎
Unrelated!
@@alexc.7868 Anthony Bennett was part of the trade to Minnesota to get Kevin Love in CLE. It is related.
@@RudieObias Bennett was an add one. The wolves wanted wiggins, that was the only piece that mattered to them
@@alexc.7868 Still part of the trade
@@RudieObias Not a relevant part of
Anthony Bennett 🇨🇦
10:08 …as the timberwolves lost by 17 points 😭😭😭
The worse Knick's pick was Ralondo Balkman.
Has Chandler or anyone else confirmed the draft workout story😂
Tim Hardaway Jr. Isn’t anywhere near a bum. He’s a serviceable role player.
He sucks😭😭
@@owena_52 and I’m sure you were a great bench rider on your middle school team.
Brown is “bust” for a 1st rounder. But he was a good role player 5.5 and 6.6 rebounds 11 season not too bad at especially since he played in hardest defensive era ever
Why is the beat 🔥🔥🔥 16:13
Gotta subscribe qfter hearing terrence Martin x 9th wonder instrumental 😂
Who do you bench if CP3 goes #2? Billups, Rip, Taushon? 3 guard line up with Billups, CP3 and Rip with Sheed and Big Ben. That would have been tough
You bench CP3 until he develops. Detroit won the championship the year they had the no 2 pick and picked Darko and didn't need/use him.
Also, cp3 wasnt in the draft that year. He was drafted 2 years later in 2005.
Now if they drafted melo, bosh, or wade in that 2003 draft at number 2 instead of Darko, and had one of those guys on that Roster. They would have extended that championship window a whole decade.
how would they get CP3? Detroit's pick was 26th when CP3 joined the draft in 2005..
@@ralphumali754 by using Brian Lawrence's imagination I suppose. Unless he got mixed up and meant Dwade.
He must have mixed up the draft classes cause it’s Melo, Wade, Bosh and Lebron in 2003
Them becoming a superstar doesn't that make them not a bust
Kwame had a long career
Being nice and challenging narratives is cool, but let's not get carried away and call Kwame Brown "dominant"
Shout out to kwame brown ... I always did respect him .. I joke on him a lot but he thoro
bro did not just call lonzo a bust
Don’t be a Cleveland hater, bet you’ve never even been here
I saw zero superstars
This guy called the sonics the thunder 🤡
Only Timberwolves make them legit superstar
So sad for Kwame Brown he had Jordan Arenas and Kobe GG
Did you actually watch him play? He was pretty bad.
He would probably better player if his was mentored by Duncan or Manu type leadership.
The guy have his best stats and season when Jordan retired tell the whole story, until he was traded again to a team with another Jordanesque type of player
if a bust becomes a superstar, doesn't that mean that he wasn't a bust at all?
Yes but also no. Young guys sometimes just have a hard time adjusting to the speed of the game. They usually are a bust to whoever drafted them; change of scenery really does wonders for some people
My Team. Oden over Durant. Bowie over Jordan Thompson over Bird. Daaaaaqamn Blazers!!!!
That was because they were drafting positions of need.
At least they traded Foye for Roy. A draft decision that worked for Blazers.
Also...
The Wolves had also had a chance to Draft Curry twice, and they drafted two players at the same position in a row when they actually needed a gaurd that could shoot.
Johnny Flynn and Ricky Rubio.
🤢🤮
To be fair everyone wanted Oden. If you watch him in college he was better than shaq it was crazy.
Great vid but unnecessary Seth Curry stray
😭 my bad Seth
Facts why he hating on Seth
...... now make a video of when hall of Famers BECOME BUSTS.
players not being good their first few years but not quitting and ending up making a name for themselves arent busts. expecting college kids to dominate the nba is such a dumb fuckin take
0:20 already bro also aged like shit
On god
kwame brown WAS NEVER A SUPERSTAR. you have bad takes
not superstars lol
This guy really said darkos 3 game stretch of 22 pts, 9 reb, 3.7 ast, 4.7 blk was a legendary stretch.... c'mon now, how much reaching we doing in one vudeo
when u say Leflop the GOAT you lost your credibility to talk basketball
When you still think Jorb7m the GOAT over LeGOAT, you lost your credibility toward basketball😂 Show me a clip of Jorbum carrying scrubs and bums to the finals? Cause if I remember correctly, when your glorious fraud had no help, he couldn't even win 2 playoff games😂 LeGOAT meanwhile, turned a 17 win team into a 60 win finals team in just 4 years😂😂😂 Lebron wpuld average 80 in the plumber 90s era😂
A Finals in which he got swept by the Spurs. So... counts for nothing. If LBJ would have won these Finals he might be in the Goat conversation I’ll give you that, but got swept. And it wasn’t the last time he got humiliated by the Spurs, so he did in 2014. Lebron has been humiliated in multiple times in the Finals. Humiliated. Don’t make me talk about 2011. And your remark of “if Lebron blablabla...” let me tell you “if” is a word that only idiots use.
Kwame wasn't a bust he didn't live up expectations no bust stays in the league for 10 plus years bust are gone by year 5
That's a valid opinion
As in, I can confirm that it is an opinion
lebron james aint the greatest player ever dude over rated turnover machine
You lost me when you called LeBron maybe the goat. LeBron isnt even top 5. Casual