Wasted Potential

[Inglewood_B]

Dwight Howard

 

[manofmorehouse]

Dwight Howard

Real shit! That nigga could win a chip next year and Harden would be looked at like he did it himself. That nigga got the size to dominate with no real competition and he want to be finesse. Fuck that soft playing nigga

 

[Beefer77]

Oscar de la Hoya blueprint for Floyd Mayweather on how to beat him

 

[Beefer77]

Barry Sanders

He just walked away with Not a care in the world he still had a least 3-5 good years left. He would have shattered the all time rushing record, instead of that overrated emit smith

 

[Beefer77]

Justin Blackmon wide receiver from Oklahoma state he was nicer than Dez Bryant his senior year

 

[216atlran]

Oscar de la Hoya blueprint for Floyd Mayweather on how to beat him

Nah, only cotto (now) could beat mayweather if anybody.

 

[Beefer77]

^^^^^^

It was a joke

 

[I Self Lord & Master]

Prince naseem

Zab

 

[down2earth]

Allen Iverson

Poor diet, stayed up all night, never seen a weight room, didn't work on his game or attitude

Despite all that he is my favorite player of all time. Goat little guy. Best pound 4 pound. He even made it to a 3 point contest even though he looked high as hell. He could of extended his career and shattered records.

Tracey McGrady. The nigga was great. Period.

Shaq. As great a center as he was (and he's my favorite center ever) had he been dedicated to exercise and eating right, he could be Tim duncan in the league right now. He guaranteed first ballot but Shaq had the potential to be the unchallenged GOAT center

Maurice Clarett. Damn homie. At OSU u was the man homie....

Bo Jackson. I mean easily may have been the greatest pure athlete ever.

Some may say it's too early to call, but I'm throwing in the white flag on the nigga D. Rose. Too many injuries. He'll never be at his peak again, but he could've been an all time great in the NBA

All of these, plucked these picks right from my brain. AI & Bo Jackson are the worst cases though IMO: AI for assassinating his own career and Bo because a freak injury robbed the world of seeing arguably the purest natural athlete the world has ever seen.

 

[georgiaboy89]

Rasheed Wallace

 

[texas409]

Brandon Roy...injuries robbed him

 

[texas409]

Jay Williams too....he was CP3 before CP3. Damn motorcycles

 

[Beefer77]

Andrew Bynum he got paid and lack of work ethic

 

[Beefer77]

Micheal Moore the boxer

 

[alliknowishate]

dejuan wheat

 

[d.green]

Cecil The Diesel Collins (LSU RB) - beast RB but unfortunately beast off the field too (in a bad way)

Ike Ibeabuchi (boxer)

Lawrence Phillips

Charlie Ward - chose NBA over NFL but think he would've done well as a QB in the league

Charles Rodgers - was closest thing to Randy Moss in college i think

Sean Taylor (RIP) - no fault of his of course but i believe my boy was a future HOF.

 

[Swiffness!]

Allen Iverson

Poor diet, stayed up all night, never seen a weight room, didn't work on his game or attitude

Despite all that he is my favorite player of all time. Goat little guy. Best pound 4 pound. He even made it to a 3 point contest even though he looked high as hell. He could of extended his career and shattered records.

Yeah I was gonna say this.

You forgot the alcohol.

The way that new book tells it, the man is an alcoholic.

Knowing that now, IMHO he's basically the Mickey Mantle of Basketball. Mantle was a notorious alcoholic who was either drunk or hungover during damn near every game.

Mantle also tore his ACL in his rookie year and never had it properly treated because the surgeries didn't exist.

So yeah, it tells you how great guys like that really were that they could basically trash their bodies and still be some of the best athletes ever. Keep Mantle healthy & sober and people speculate that dude coulda hit 800 home runs. Keep Iverson healthy & sober and dude retires with 30,000+ points.

I just hope A.I don't go out as a sad drunk with liver disease like Mantle smh....

 

[Rampage12]

Micheal Moore the boxer

Don't think he was wasted potential, hell he won the Heavyweight title, dude just had a glass chin and unfortunately that's something you can't fix.

 

[Rampage12]

Cecil The Diesel Collins (LSU RB) - beast RB but unfortunately beast off the field too (in a bad way)

Ike Ibeabuchi (boxer)

Lawrence Phillips

Charlie Ward - chose NBA over NFL but think he would've done well as a QB in the league

Charles Rodgers - was closest thing to Randy Moss in college i think

Sean Taylor (RIP) - no fault of his of course but i believe my boy was a future HOF.

Co-sign on Ike. Alot of people thought he could've been one of the best Heavyweights ever. He was 20-0 with 15 KO's and had already laid beatdowns on Chris Byrd and David Tua while they were both in their primes before he ended up raping and beating the shit out of that stripper which he ended up doing 15 years for.

No-sign on Charlie he knew he was too small to play QB in the NFL and would make better money in the NBA either way.

And Cecil Collins was just a freaking weirdo. Dude liked to break into girl's rooms and sniff their panties and caress them while they were sleeping and shit. He got kicked out of LSU for that shit and then kept pulling the same stunt in the NFL, at least he didn't pull a Najeh Davenport and drop deuces in their rooms though.

 

[O.G.]

I cosign the nosign on Charlie Ward. He was too small for the NFL. He did the right thing going to the NBA.