Who is the biggest NBA bust of all time?

[Euroleague]

Oden.

He was hailed as the next Bill Russell, David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Patrick Ewing, blah blah blah.......

and he was taken #1 over freaking Kevin Durant.

Also, unlike Bowie that was taken over Olajuwon and Jordan, he never actually showed any game or produced anything when he was healthy, which was almost never. He's played what, like a season's worth of games in like 5 or 6 years? And when he did play, he never did jack shit.

At least Bowie was a competent player before injuries wrecked him. And of course, both were picked by the Blazers.

Freaking Blazers....passing on Olajuwon, Jordan, and Durant...



Oden's by far the biggest bust ever. Anyone saying otherwise needs to put down the pipe. lol at people saying Darko...Darko looks like a great pick by comparison to the Oden pick. Get real.

The Oden pick is even more absurd than Ryan Leaf level.

[NumberSix]

Probably Sam Bowie.

[Euroleague]

Spanoulis?

That was coach related. Cases like that, Spanoulis under Van Gundy or Petrovic under Adelman (Petrovic said he was quitting the NBA and going back to Europe just a few days before the Nets traded for him - so he would have been seen today by NBA only fans the same way Spanoulis is).......

Are totally different.

We are talking about guys that played in NCAA and were known to American coaches and that had hundreds upon hundreds of chances given to them by those same American coaches.

Of course, Petrovic is yet another example of the Blazers screwing up..........

[dr.hee]

Spanoulis

He was hailed as the next Tracy McGrady blah blah blah.......

and he was traded to the Spurs for the rights to freaking Luis Scola.

He's by far the biggest bust ever. Anyone saying otherwise needs to put down the pipe.

fixed

[Overdrive]

Oden.

He was hailed as the next Bill Russell, David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Patrick Ewing, blah blah blah.......

and he was taken #1 over freaking Kevin Durant.

Also, unlike Bowie that was taken over Olajuwon and Jordan, he never actually showed any game or produced anything when he was healthy, which was almost never. He's played what, like a season's worth of games in like 5 or 6 years? And when he did play, he never did jack shit.

At least Bowie was a competent player before injuries wrecked him. And of course, both of these mega busts were picked by the Blazers.

Freaking Blazers....passing on Olajuwon, Jordan, and Durant...



He's by far the biggest bust ever. Anyone saying otherwise needs to put down the pipe.

Olajuwon was taken 1st.

[Euroleague]

Olajuwon was taken 1st.

At the time the Rockets were willing to trade to get Drexler. So they would have Drexler and Jordan.

[NumberSix]

Puh-tay-duh

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

Oden.

He was hailed as the next Bill Russell, David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Patrick Ewing, blah blah blah.......

and he was taken #1 over freaking Kevin Durant.

Also, unlike Bowie that was taken over Olajuwon and Jordan, he never actually showed any game or produced anything when he was healthy, which was almost never. He's played what, like a season's worth of games in like 5 or 6 years? And when he did play, he never did jack shit.

At least Bowie was a competent player before injuries wrecked him. And of course, both were picked by the Blazers.

Freaking Blazers....passing on Olajuwon, Jordan, and Durant...



Oden's by far the biggest bust ever. Anyone saying otherwise needs to put down the pipe. lol at people saying Darko...Darko looks like a great pick by comparison to the Oden pick. Get real.

The Oden pick is even more absurd than Ryan Leaf level.

Oden just couldnt handle the NBA level and if he stayed injury free hed only play 20mins a game anyways from fouling out

[finchyyy]

Fu*k Melo, imagine if the Pistons drafted D-Wade, now that would have been crazy! And for the biggest busts, have to say the Kandi Man or Washburn... I don't really class Oden or Lenny Bias as busts.

[D-FENS]

Vagisil Spannerpuss

[duskovujosevic]

Darko Milicic, close the thread

[BoutPractice]

Underrated mentions:
Robert Traylor
Nikosh Tsikishvili
Stromile Swift
Marvin Williams
Fran Vazquez
Rafael Araujo
Adam Morrison
Shelden Williams
Yi Jianlian
Joe Alexander
Hasheem Thabeet

Also, not really a bust because he was taken 12th, but a draft pick that now looks quite bad... Vitaly Potapenko. The three players taken right after him? Kobe Bryant, Stojakovic, and Steve Nash... Jermaine O'Neal and Zydrunas Ilgauskas were also available.