Greatest players to break down too quickly

[dc_chilling]

What are some of the greatest players who we only got to watch perform at their peak for a short while?

Some names that come to mind are:

T-Mac (8 good years, multiple injuries within that span)

Gilbert Arenas (29 ppg scorer that was never the same after Crash crashed into him)

Brandon Roy (Peaked and then his knees ruined him)

Penny Hardaway (Incredible for 3 years and then he broke down)

Dwyane Wade (Has only played 5 seasons of more than 70 games, body is shot at 32)

Rose (Yet to be seen, hope he doesn't wind up on this list)

Those are just some off the top of my head. I'm interested to see what other players people think of. It's crazy how many incredible players only peak for a few years before injuries start setting in.

[The_Pharcyde]

This isn't obvious what you are trying to do here....

[Jlamb47]

Grant hill

[russwest0]

Larry Bird only played 13 years.

[russwest0]

Grant hill

Alonzo mourning

[pastis]

This isn't obvious what you are trying to do here....


wade stans:confusedshrug:

[Jlamb47]

Alonzo mourning

lol good one

[Jlamb47]

Ojay Mayo and Tyreke Evans had good rookie seasons and they just sucked after
mosly Mayo
Evans has his moments here and there

[dc_chilling]

This isn't obvious what you are trying to do here....

What am I trying to do?

I got the idea from some thread where T-Mac was ranked above Manu and I disagreed because of his health and lack of playoff success.

[dc_chilling]

Larry Bird only played 13 years.

Yea that's a good point.

Technically, Larry only played like 10 seasons. The other three years he was injured for either a good chunk of games or, in the case of the 88 season, almost all of them.

[Miles and Miles]

Chris Webber broke at like 30 years old.

[tmacattack33]

Penny and Brandon Roy (and most of the others that were listed) were severely injured. We can point to one injury with them that fukked their whole career up in an instance.

Wade has just slowly deteriorated and his style of play isn't the type to translate to age 32 and beyond.

[Smook A.]

Ovinton J'Anthony Mayo, the guy who was once dubbed as the next Kobe, had a great rookie season but since then he has fallen off big time. Last season he started coming off the bench for the Milwaukee Bucks

He really let himself go. Dude gained a couple pounds and got that Ed Reed homeless man look.

Another guy I'd like to mention is Brandon Roy. After watching him from his 3rd or 4th season I knew he was going to be something special. Like a Kobe type of player in his prime... that's what I imagined him to become. But then injuries came... F*ck injuries man.

[wally_world]

Duncan
Kareem
Nash
Parish
Kevin Willis

[The_Pharcyde]

wade stans:confusedshrug:

Indifferent on dwyane
Used to like him, then hated him
Now he is trash so I could care less

[hateraid]

Ralph Sampson
Derrick Coleman
Arvydas Sabonis
Kevin Johnson

[AboutBuckets]

Yao

[T_L_P]

Tim Duncan.

He was on his way to being a 40-45 PPG scorer and then he had to get his knee scoped.

He was never the same.

[kshutts1]

Yao

[kamil]

Sam Bowie

[9512]

Bill Walton too

[CavaliersFTW]

Maurice Stokes
Bill Walton

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Brad Daugherty. Couldn't even make it to 30.

Still amazes me that he was playing college ball at 16 years old. At UNC, to boot.

[JUDGE WITNESS]

ive been to a couple games where ive seen wade in person. his knees look like they were transplanted from some 80 year old

[clipps]

Weird answer, Shaq. If he dropped the pounds and was well conditioned, we would've extended his dominance well beyond his stint with Miami.

[Myth]

Brandon Roy (Peaked and then his knees ruined him)



I don't think we can even claim he peaked. He had never plateaued in his improvement when his knees started failing.