Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

i'm jumping the gun here but who is the best player ever to have his career derailed by leg injuries? walton? grant hill?

Time to start juicing

Hill for sure imo

Yao?

walton was great too walton is notable for being injury prone right from the beginning where hill had a great run then got knocked the fuck out

bernard king

mchale an also-ran there prob

Me *I skinned my knee in the 7th grade and have never really recovered since*

it seems forgotten but Walton was mvp in his like 5th year in the league, dude could've carried dynasties

yeah he wldve been an alltimer

yeah yao is a good one too

penny

i'm jumping the gun here but who is the best player ever to have his career derailed by leg injuries? walton? grant hill?

1. Walton
2. Sabonis
3. Grant Hill
4. Yao
5. Clark Kellogg maybe!

Penny overrated imo

I've always been fascinated by how ilgauskas and hill had a seemingly endless series of surgeries until somehow one surgery nailed the problem and they were healthy from then on.

man, penny in his prime was near to pippen. definitely hall of famer without the leg injury.

A healthy Penny is maybe the 125th greatest player ever.

I remember the penny hype and it was fun but he wasn't even as good as Brandon Roy.

xp so you are conceding him as a hall of famer then

Idk Artis Gilmore had to wait 25 years, hall of fame pretty bogus

He was never near to pippen tho

penny six seasons in orlando, per game - 18.4 pts, 6.1 assists, 4.6 rebounds, 2.9 turnovers
pip twelve seasons in chicago, per game - 17.7 pts, 5.3 assists, 6.7 rebounds, 2.8 turnovers

35 minutes per game for pip, 37 for penny

reaching

i will cop to some homer tennessee bias

i meant matt was reaching in his penny disses, like any person who first watched hoops as a kid in the 90s i love penny hardaway

well then, carry on

Do knee problems count as leg injuries? bc if so you'd have to cout like 3/4 of the guys who ever had injury problems. If not throw Sabas off of matt's list.

Pippen is probably the greatest perimeter defender ever.

i wouldn't argue that too vigorously and why i said "near to pippen" and not "as good as". both of them had dominant, once in a generation players beside them of course.

5. Clark Kellogg maybe!

until a couple weeks ago i wasn't even sure that clark kellogg played in the nba! averaged 20 & 10 as a rookie but cooked at age 24.

i bet penny would've been better in modern pick and roll heavy nba

hearing some #insideinfo that kd might not actually play again for 9-12 months

We should probably run it by Snrub to verify.

i bet penny would've been better in modern pick and roll heavy nba

Mayyybe but also more emphasis on outside shooting now

/5. Clark Kellogg maybe!/

until a couple weeks ago i wasn't even sure that clark kellogg played in the nba! averaged 20 & 10 as a rookie but cooked at age 24.

Yeah what a shame

It was a Brandon Roy situation where they knew the knees would give out pretty soon when they picked him

no one ever thinks abt the effect on lil pennys career

it would be hard to operate on such tiny knees

big penny averaging 22-4-7 on 50% fg his third season in the league is p darn good its kinda hard to say why his ceiling was tho matts prob right imo that he was closer to roy than pip

such a weird bad era for the nba prob better just to forget all abt it

how bout Mcdyess?

probs about time someone throws shade at brooks minutes management

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Draymond Green must lead the league in wide open 3’s attempted.

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