Top 10 All Time NBA Busts

[Chad Feldheimer]

Only because Arn Tellem told every team that Kobe would only play for the Lakers.

and only one team was smart enough to pick him and then trade him

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

Fran Vasquez

Picked 11. Still has never come over from Spain to play in the NBA.

 

[YB85]

and only one team was smart enough to pick him and then trade him

That was a pre-arranged deal. New Jersey really wanted to draft him, and supposedly went to the last minute before deciding that they didn't want to be held hostage by Tellem.

 

[r_u_s_t_b_u_c_k_e_t]

never nervous Pervis and Danny Ferry went one-two in the 1989 draft. Sene and O'Bryant went back-to-back with 2006 lottery picks. Vazquez was taken with a lottery pick in 2005. we might be able to come up with a list of 10 picks that never (almost) even played in the NBA. hell, just list the entire 1986 draft and call it the top-ten busts:

2. Bias
3. Washburn
6. Bedford
7. Tarpley
12. Hotplate Williams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_(basketball,_born_1966)

 

[r_u_s_t_b_u_c_k_e_t]

Fran Vasquez

Picked 11. Still has never come over from Spain to play in the NBA.

Frederic Weis was picked 15th by the Knicks. I guess that might be a bit low to be considered an all-time bust.

 

[r_u_s_t_b_u_c_k_e_t]

the KOC top-ten busts might be more impressive than the original list:

Stevenson
Lopez
Borchardt
Pavlovic
Humphries
Snyder
Almond
Fesenko
Koufos
this year?

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

That was a pre-arranged deal. New Jersey really wanted to draft him, and supposedly went to the last minute before deciding that they didn't want to be held hostage by Tellem.

Interesting. I didn't know that.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

the KOC top-ten busts might be more impressive than the original list:

Stevenson
Lopez
Borchardt
Pavlovic
Humphries
Snyder
Almond
Fesenko
Koufos
this year?

A key role player on a championship team is considered a bust?

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

Frederic Weis was picked 15th by the Knicks. I guess that might be a bit low to be considered an all-time bust.

He didn't even make it to basketballreference.com. That takes some serious busting.

 

[LjJazzman]

the KOC top-ten busts might be more impressive than the original list:

Stevenson
Lopez
Borchardt
Pavlovic
Humphries
Snyder
Almond
Fesenko
Koufos
this year?

Stevenson and Humphries? WTF is wrong with you?

 

[Favors Flave]

Interesting.

Marvin Williams, Jay Williams, Martell Webster, Dajuan Wagner (remember, he was going to be the next AI), Big Country Reeves, Ron Mercer, T-mac (for someone so talke about, you'd think that he would have won a playoff series in his career or something), and Kirk Snyder all come to mind...

A lot of guys who were busts have last names that start with W and two of them are Williams. Maybe this is a sign to not get Derrick Williams or Kemba Walker

 

[r_u_s_t_b_u_c_k_e_t]

A key role player on a championship team is considered a bust?

i was thinking about the 10 seasons of suckitude that preceded this year's playoffs... but, you might have a point, i guess.