How GOOD Was Rashad McCants FAILED NBA Career?
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- Rashad McCants is one of the more vocal people in Gil's Arena. He has outrageous takes and interesting thoughts, but how good was his own NBA career?
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he had the athleticism and physique just not the brain and discipline
Nah he messed up by dating a Kardashian like the rest of the ✊🏾 brothers that career took a downward spiral after doing so
I have to agree with both ngl
@@scnctxny6872I think that’s the brain and discipline part lol
he def knew basketball though he used his iq in a lot of his highlights
@@scnctxny6872That Kardashian Jenner curse is real. It's so bad it turned a guy into a women 😢😢
McCants was a beast. From high school to the NBA he was an elite talent. If you watch Gils arena you can clearly see why his NBA career didnt pan out. It has nothing to do with talent its his mentality and inability to fit into the team concept. He had the same issues at UNC. Its always been a mental thing with Rashad. Everything is a slight, everybody else is always wrong, and McCants embraces being the odd man out. But no NBA team is going to pay a player who goes about life like that.
You said it best . I agree .
Do u even know what is an elite talent mean in NBA? 😂😂
Definitely was an elite talent in college with a poor mindset
@@phil4272 I dont know what type of statement that is but every NBA player is elite. But there are obvious levels to eliteness. McCants should have been a borderline All-Star at his peak if things went his way. He was never going to be a franchise guy and most NBA players arent. There are only a select few in that group. So sgain, what are you asking?
New Hampshire high school lol
I think he did have some talent but listening to him talk you would think this guy was on mj level or something. Yes he played in the NBA which there are not alot of people who can say they did that. However he speak about others who accomplished far more than he did as if he knows more or could do better. Personally I like Brandon Jennings more as a player and commentator. He is more realistic and was a better player despite not having the "A type" personality. He just let his game do the talking and competed at a higher level despite being smaller.
Gil do the same. Gil was phenomenal for some seasons but he think he Kobe
Gil was that guy though before injury. He was top ten in the league at that time. McCants wears a crown and talks like he was the goat. I can only imagine how annoying he must of been as a teammate.
@@terrellsims8041 bruh Gil averaged 30 like twice how many people did that in nba history of it wasn’t for injuries we’d be talking about Gil as a all time great he literally was dame & John wall in one body go do your homework on Gil before you speak
@@Goatttyyyy ik who Gil is. It wasn’t just injury it was attitude and work ethic too. Gil was cold but he was handed the keys to shoot at will. Not sayin it’s sun wrong with it and Not sayin Gil wasn’t cold but AI did the same and even AI don’t talk like Gil
Stop worrying about who they talk like. Their grown a** men who talk like that want and feel. You achived nothing and talk as well so stfû about them talking. They actually made it
You don’t understand how big of a deal it is to be a top scorer at UNC especially in the early 00’s
Too bad his teammates had some issues with him.
All I can say is he was the best player on the wolves on NBA live 😂 when he started appearing on Gil i realized he was who I was cooking with on Live back in the day
😂
I remember Mike James couldn't miss from 3
dude Lamar odom on 2k9 was an absolute weapon
He had one good year with 2K too
@@isaacmussie7557 2k9 is the best 2k ever had the dunk contest you could play 21 and 3 point contest and the soundtrack was dope I played it from time to time until my ps3 finally gave out wish they would do blacktop like they did on 2k9 shit was so dope
Can’t call bro a failure just cause you don’t like his takes fam. He’s in the 1% of the craft bro. There’s a lot that goes in to it
Word, tf is wrong with this guy? 😂 Hating azz channel.
He’s talking about on the NBA level yes he failed. Didn’t last long and didn’t make an impact. Yes he made it to the nba and that’s a great accomplishment as you stated 1% of hooped make it that far. But when you make it you wanna be good and great and he was never that was all he saying
He was saying that his NBA career was a failure not that he was. I said he didn’t live up to his POTENTIAL which made his NBA career a failure when he had the ability to accomplish more as a 14th pick in the 1st round. Damn, y’all be slow smh. Y’all must be some mental midgets or something.
His game is garbage
@@JasonMims-de2jqit’s the same as any other d and 3 player now
His career was not a failure. McCants played on the highest level. It’s easy to judge someone and say what you would do if you were in their shoes. Most of you haven’t achieved greatness at your job. Appreciate his perspective and listen to his wisdom.
Bro stop this he made it yes but was he trash also yes since when do we hype up the other guys
He sucked! Point blank period lol after college he never lived up to the hype, and was okay at best.
@13bozoe you can't make it to the league by being trash. Even Jermey Lin might not be that good on an NBA court eith other professionals. But don't get it twisted. They will hoop on damn near every average player . Even if they are trash
@@srr1322you can make it to the league and then be trash it happens all the time
@user-gu5re1qz7l The fact you mentioned that as a REAL reason why he ended up out the league is insane! 😂 truth is buddy is delusional. He thinks the star he was in college was automatically gonna transfer to the NBA & that’s not how it works. He wasn’t that good to where he could do whatever and act however. He was easily replaceable & that’s what happened, simple.
You pick up a basketball, play at the highest level in college and win a national championship. You go to the NBA and make millions. People who have done nothing close call your career a failure. Make it make sense
Exactly.
In terms of the nba he is didn’t make a impact and wasn’t even a good role player you can accomplish all that and still fail at the highest level he didn’t say he’s a failure at life just at being a nba player
That makes him qualified to speak down on us regular folk but not on NBA players who made the best of their god given talent. So your point is invalid 🤷🏽♂️
HE MADE 7 MILLION, AND LOST IT!! He speaks about it all the time.Not to mention, that fraudster lady Peggy Williams stole his first years pay. He could have made more, but his goofy azz couldn't get his head out his wazoo! He partied and got caught up in the life. NBA FAILURE!
@@steviejay868
That is EXACTLY what the point is and what the definition of an NBA failure by situational fact according to NBA players AND coaches so it’s not just the “common folk” calling him a “failure”
@1:34 - either right before or right after revealing his list, Mccants gives an explanation for why Magic isn't on his list: he was under the impression that hybrid PGs (players listed at multiple positions throughout their career) were not eligible for the list. Magic was listed as SG for the first 4ish years of his career while Norm was listed as the PG.
By not mentioning this, either you are willfully leaving out crucial info or did not diligently research the info. Not sure which is worse tbh.
It made me click off of this video right after since misinformation about something I know taints all following info on things since I'll have the question of whether the presented info is actually the whole truth or a partial truth.
- critical thinker. I applaud you.
This guy breezed by his College career and didnt mention the tournament run, or fact hes one of the top scorers in UNC history haha
Not a fan of him on Gil's Arena but 40% from 3 on nearly 5 attempts a game would definitely have made him a bigger named player in today's game
Honestly that’s true af.
No he said 46 from the field 36 from 3. That Westbrook %
@@TheDreadhead85league average from 3 was 33% at the time
@@TheDreadhead85westbrook is like 32% Devin booker career is 36%
@@stevenmctowelie681 he made 1 more 3 then Westbrook
If you listen to him, talk on the show, you will see why he only lasted less than five years in the NBA. He constantly talks about how he was the man in high school in college so he didn’t have to work as hard as everybody else. That attitude doesn’t translate well into the NBA era, he played in. He blames agents, the Kardashians, NBA coaches and his coach at NC for him being blackballed. Zero accountability for anything. He also stated out of his own mouth that he did whatever his teammates did because he wanted to belong. Was he an NBA failure? Not necessarily, but he definitely wasn’t who he thinks he is. All of these things in totality is why he was so easily forgettable when he was in the league.
After that Miko situation happened. I decided to do some research on McCants and found quotes and articles from 20 years ago. I like taking the side of antagonists but those quotes fit him perfectly til this day.
The problem is everybody understands about what happen to him talented dude...Basically got black balled out the league. But when you hear him open his mouth, it makes you feel like he deserved it
Lifelong Timberwolves fan here. I would describe McCants as the most forgettable draft pick during the Wolves most forgettable stretch. Zero impact. There was absolutely no buzz about him coming here despite his notoriety at North Carolina. My most vivid memory of him was at a game at Target Center when McCants had been relegated to coming off the bench. He was part of a newly minted 5 man substitution unit dubbed the “Zoo Crew”. It had a little success for 2 or 3 games but in this game the “Zoo Crew” had been awful and the coach called a timeout to sub them all out. Target Center was deathly quiet and a guy bellowed out from the second deck for all to hear, “Zoo crew you suck!” The whole crowd laughed heartily. Literally my only memory of his time here.
His only nba highlight (if you wanna call it one) was when he assisted Gerald Green in the 2008 slam dunk contest while playing for Minnesota. Besides that he’s loud & confrontational to people his size and smaller. Good college player, average nba player.
That’s a lie. He went for 34 one time in like 08.
@@Jabrielm92 none of its a lie, so what he went for 34.
You're a hater young man
this is complete and clear hating.
what have you ever done in your life worth mentioning? your probably a nobody with all that hate in your spirit.
Rashad was an average NBA player. He was a useful rotation piece. Which means that objectively he's a _great_ player, but for him to claim he was the best player on Gil's Arena -- sitting next to Gilbert Arenas, who would have been a hall of famer if not for injury, and Brandon Jennings who would have been an all-star if not for injury -- was pretty over the top. And he completely ignored Gilbert's logic, which was sound: If Gil started off way below Rashad but reached his level in college then surpassed him as a pro, doesn't that mean Gilbert is better? He basically implied it was because he outworked him and honestly that's probably true.
If not for ...
If not for ...
You could also apply that to McCants ... If not for ...
I mean.... The Gun incident messed up Gils career not injury. When he came back from the gun thing he was messed up mentally.
@ZenOfMKVLI
Injuries, and attitude is not the same thing.
not to mention Kenyon was a damn good pro and a lot better than Rashad lmao
As a kid Rashad was one of my favorite players, along with Eddie House lol
This video has a condescending tone to it. Although I may not always agree with McCants he did make it to the NBA. Plus he played for Minnesota Timberwolves which is a small market team, and not known for winning outside of KG. McCants explained why Magic Johnson wasn’t on his list of point guards being he listed pg’s being their primary/ only position. I need the video creator to list his athletic accomplishments.
When I first say McCants, I thought Al Harrington had shrunk and had a different voice.
MCccant's lowest accomplishments were beyond your realm of capabilities and you called his NBA career a "failure"? Who the hell are you?
He was a good college player for sure but not so in the NBA
His best seaosn was 15 a game on 45% FG and 41% from 3. He wasn’t bad in the NBA he was just an asshole
#MCCants a certified legend college champ’ he always keep it 100 never sugarcoat nothing’ Plus making it the NBA 6 seasons along with all the politics in the business’ is a high fete within itself
His career was a failed ? But you wish you could have his career tho 😂
You had me til the end when you called this man’s NBA career a failure. You know how many people have tried to even make it to the league and never step foot on a roster? They have done what less than 1% of the earths population could ever dream of doing. I’m not a mccants fan but yall should respect these guys much more than yall do.
I actually came across him the same way you did by Gil’s show. And all I kept thinking was who is this arrogant fool with a tiara on his head. When I found out it was Rashad I had completely forgot about him!! I mean on one end he played for UNC and made the NBA which in itself is a monumental accomplishment. But hearing his takes, you would think he was like Kobe or something and on that end it’s like pump the brakes there bro you were no where near the elite level of the players you shit on with your podcasts takes. And that’s what bothers me about him on the show. Dude still has an ego and over inflates his career as if no one can pull receipts. Like the other day on the show he was completely disrespecting Pat Bev, who you can argue has had a way better career the Rashad. His ego is way too much.
Man if I could shake your hand in person I would. You literally said everything single thing I thought and have said about this dude. Unreal!! 😳😅
Patbev is a significant better player than him.
The ending is nasty work.
Everybody not going be a superstar player in the NBA‼️ To even make it is a huge accomplishment ‼️✅💯 To play 7+ years your successful✅💯‼️ My respect to anyone who has achieved this feat‼️✅💯
He got respect for some of our favs because of his come up . He was a talent
A College National Championship. Name in the Dean Smith Arena in Chapel Hill NC. Played all over the world in a professional capacity. I say that's not a failure. He was never drafted to resurrect a team. He was a piece
He was a beast for the TRILOGY
Someone who never could even touch the backboard calling a former lottery pick who averaged double figures career a failure is crazy work ! 😂😂😂FOH
The way he talks on Gil's show, I thought he was a The Killer😂😂😂
Right!!
Steve a part 2😂
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Rashad McCants was a scoring machine during his three years at Chapel Hill. As a freshman, McCants lead the Tar Heels in scoring with 17.5 points per game. McCants was an All-American all three years at UNC, and was a crucial part of their 2005 National Championship team… The Timberwolves selected McCants with the 14th-overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft, but received very little return on their investment. During his four seasons with the T-Wolves, McCants started just 38 games and often feuded with teammates and coaches.
After one more miserable season with the Sacramento Kings, McCants was out of the NBA by 2009. Since then, McCants has played in pro leagues in Puerto Rico, Philippines, China, Brazil, Lebanon, Venezuela, and Dominican Republic. At least we know his passport has a lot of stamps
If you havent watched enough basketball to know who Rashad Mccants is then youre a casual and need to stick to 2k. You BREEZED by his college career and that shows you are someone yourself who was never a hooper just loved a culture you were never apart of.
How can you fail making millions of dollars? 🤔
HE MADE 7 MILLION, AND LOST IT!! He speaks about it all the time.Not to mention, that fraudster lady Peggy Williams stole his first years pay. He could have made more, but his goofy azz couldn't get his head out his wazoo! He partied and got caught up in the life. NBA FAILURE!
Acting like Rashad McCants does
Failed vs success is talking about being the “BEST OF THE BEST”. Money is irrelevant. How can you not comprehend this??
Stop it, he is a failure as an NBA PLAYER
7.5 million.. sounds like success to me 🎉
Interesting idea for a video but did you just pick up the back of a basketball card and read the statistics
great vid dude!
Purple prince, do a review on your nba career next.
LOL😂
Any person that makes the NBA, NFL, MLB, etc. has to believe they are the best person to ever play their position. They may not share that with anyone because it can be perceived as delusional/arrogance, but as a former athlete, we all felt that way inside. McCants was on be front cover of Sports Illustrated in college for a reason. He was drafted 14 overall as you mentioned so there’s
no reason to not feel he was the best player on the court. There are many reasons a career is cut short but you can’t question him thinking he was always the best player on the court.
In not gonna lie,i know everybody else in Girls arena from the NBA but not Rashard
Bro played 5 years in the NBA at the 14th picked overall. I wouldnt call that a failed career. If youre not a top 3 NBA pick and get 5 years played in the league thats a success story.
Success compared to the average person, definitely not for an nba player
You need people like him on this type of show. I believe he is playing the devils advocate on purpose. Just like when skip and Stephen A smith went at each other with crazy takes.
he averaged 15 one year, not a lot of people can say that
Just like most players he got drafted by the wrong team and his career disappeared being on sorry teams he's not elite but a really good player
Dude I don’t know why Chill Gill have Rashaud on the show because he always miss the point of the Topics. I am a fan
Of Gil however he fired the most brilliant Female Cohost that always challenged Rashaud’s dumb comments regarding Shows Topics
I dont understand the crown and big hats he wears... am I missing something
Averaging 14.9 points in 26 minutes ain't that bad.
The irony of social media on this guy complaining about his nba takes because he wasn’t a superstar having never played in the nba. Lmaoo. You making this video is worse than him commenting on pros. wtf team you played for? Lmaoo
“I’m closer to lebron than you are to me”. -Brian Scalabrine
He is a prime example of bein a star in college doesn’t mean it’ll carry over to the league!
I was really into basketball back then he was decent
even in the gameplay showed in this video... you can see it was a different game. dudes passing the ball 7 times to get the best shot, positioning etc. was nice to see
At 6-4 didn't have point guard skills wasn't big enough for either forward spots and didn't have the foot speed to play the 2 guard ,played well in big 3 which is only a half court game. Gilbert was a far better pro
Rashad was nice and can hoop. His discipline and mindset is what stunned his growth. He made millions to play ball I wouldn’t call that a fail career.
Sooo why the Kardashian curse didn't work on Devin Booker❓
Mccants talk like he Bron that's why the this guy calling him out . He talk reckless on Gil podcast like he was a Allstars player . Norris Cole was about as good and probably better than mccants plus he won a chip and still more humble than mccants on Gil podcast.
If i were to put together an all-star UNC Team he'd be getting minutes for sure. Dude was filthy.
Rashad was nice and can score with the best of them. His discipline and mindset is what stunned his growth but he made millions to play ball I wouldn’t call that a failed career. He was that elite 1% for sure
The fact he led his team to a national title and also able to avg 15 efficiently is enough to know he could've had a longer career
The kardashian curse is crazy 😂
WOW very interesting persperctive
Rashad was one of the best college players I’ve ever seen play
You must not have watched much college basketball 😂
@@bdukes8075 No Clearly you didnt, do some research. Top 20 scorer for arguably the most storied collegiate basketball program ever.
@bdukes8075 every guard you probably thinking about didn’t win a Chip in college so stop it
@@antonioleak1313 winning a chip don’t mean you one of the best players lol Gerry McNamara won a NCAA chip but he not one of the best players
you clearly dont watch basketball@@bdukes8075
It was his attitude and emotional guy and big headed but he had all the talent !! The nba if they can’t control they will let you go but in life he was a success
Name one athlete to come back from the Kardashian curse
He was a good player no matter what way you want to slice it. Saying he had a failed career because of his play is honestly letting him off easy. He has long history of being hard to deal with, which is why his career was cut shorter than it should have been. Putting in a good effort and just not being good enough is much easier pill to swallow. It happens... but having proof you were good enough to play at the next level and messing it up because of character flaws must sting.
You didn’t watch the video . He left hybrid guards like curry , magic , and Lebron off his list
Lebron isn’t a guard, and magic would drag him and everyone on thatblist
You would think he was an ALL-STAR the way he talk!
14.9 points in 26 minutes in 2nd full season (2nd he was injured so 3rd season doesn’t count) is amazing!!! Imagine he played 32 minutes?! Then seems like he was injured after that and the coaches didn’t give him enough minutes after that
Proper analysis on the guy
He made nba. 8th or 9th man at best. By listening to him talk now seems like it was everyone else's fault but his. It was coaches fault management or whatever it was says him. He's the guy that goes 120 percent in blowouts.
thuggalious rocking a tiara like a princess never heard of him
If you never heard of mccants you’re probably a casual. He had an attitude but he won a college championship in the 2000s and a lottery pick
hearing poor ppl use their words in the right way to call rich people failures is the epitome of so many sad examples of what people will do or say to get clout or attention
1/4/2008. Minnesota vs Denver.
118-107 Denver win.
McCants 31 min; 12/18 fg; 3/5 3pt; 34 pts (career high); 5 rbs; 4 ast.
AI 42 min; 10/21 fg; 4/8 3pt; 33 pts; 3 rbs; 4 ast.
K Mart 24 min; 5/8 fg; 11 pts; 5 rbs; 3 ast; 1 stl; 1 blk.
Melo 37 min; 11/20 fg; 0/1 3pt; 4 rbs; 4 ast; 2 stl.
nothing to sneeze at being the best player at UNC and winning a championship.
Ok to be fair and honest though, every best player on their college teams usually goes to the league. Same in hs, the best player on ur hs team that stand above and beyond the rest usually gets a chance to go to college on scholarship. It’s just how sports work 99% of the time. So yes if you are the best in ur respected league you’re average in the next.
The camera time wasn’t on the like it is now it’s all good tho 😂
He was 1 of the one percent that made it to the highest level of men basketball
Wow looking back at these 2000 highlights they look so untalented, and this era met so much to me
15 ppg in 26 mpg is crazy. Talented fa sho
Why does he wear a crown? He’s only the king of NBA rejects. 🤣🤣
A great basketball player not every one becomes the main guy not a failure
Pop ain’t all that, Eric been holding the heat down, why ain’t pop do the same???
Y’all can hate all you want that dude would dominate todays league he was a corn fed 2 guard with a little bounce they don’t make guys like this anymore and the only reason he didn’t play in the nba more is they weren’t drooling over 3pt shooters like that back then
Doing tricks on it i see
making a whole video lowkey hating on him like this is crazy 😹😹😹
To the average human he wasn’t a failure however when compared to his comp…
U literally said u didn’t watch basketball all in the 80’s and 90’s but yet u feel some way about him not putting Magic on his list and you’ve never seen Magic play a game
Even with this info, he still had a better career than 60% of players today
I remember him on Timberwolves he had a good 3 ball that’s about it
Honestly when you ran down his career numbers they were better than I remembered. That said the stats weren't good to back up the shade he throws at players like Lebron.
Who are you to say he failed? Only he can say if he failed or not. He did something millions have tried to do and that play in the NBA. I would say he did fail.
It's simple he was always bigger and more athletic than the majority of his competition leading up the NBA. Once he got to the Big Leagues he could no longer out muscle and out athlete his opponents thus his career faltered. The story as old as time nothing extraordinary about his NBA failures.
The basketball HOA is includes college and NBA accolades. Rashad is a National champion on a all time great college team and was the best player so yes he was a dawg
Damn khloe was part of the Work
This whole video annoying. You talk too much without saying anything. Stop being a paper fan.
If you made it to the NBA and played one minute in any game and got a check for it you not a MF failure at all!💯
Ok waterboy
In no world can you be a decorated collegiate athlete, get drafted in the lottery, make millions to play in the best league in the world, and still be considered a failure.
Look at how his coach hating on him in these clips😂 2:40
MCCants be talking like he was that guy in the NBA. Lmao
He’s not a failure for being an nba player. He’s a failure for having delusions of grandeur. Some ppl be finger reading super hard in these comments.
Nah after 2:33, I cant. My boy said a national title in college is nothing 😂
To the pros, it's not.
The fact that he wears a crown on his head as if he’s one of the NBA greats speaks volumes about his character and how he isn’t even a good podcast co-host to me because he’s ALWAYS talking over everybody AND thinks he is ALWAYS right AND thinks that he was the greatest thing to enter the NBA since MJ. He thinks that he was better than everybody.
Think I’m 🧢 cappin?
Watch the story that Patrick Beverley tells about them working out together and you’ll see EXACTLY what I’m talking about
Seem a good basketball player that got fame , babes and luxury coming in too quick killing is will to get better and win tens of millions more throughout a nba career .
I’m afraid he will reflect his life at 60+ years and realized how he missed out …