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KWAME BROWN: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY
Published on June 27th, 2015 by Astramskas, David | 16,249 views
After attending the last failed bargaining session to possibly end the NBA lockout in New York on Monday, Kobe Bryant was in a psychology classroom this week at the University of California-Santa Barbara answering questions from students and a professor about his stellar 15-year career. At one point, Bryant was asked about his lone most valuable player award in 2008 and used it as an opportunity to share a story about his former teammate and forever Wizard Kwame Brown.
Is Kwame Brown the worst #1 pick ever? For that consideration, it means he was a bigger mistake than Sam Bowie over Jordan. Bigger than Olowokandi over Paul Pierce & Vince Carter or bigger than Greg Oden over Kevin Durant.
But how can a player who played 12 years and earned a paycheck from 7 teams be the worst ever? Well, he is the player that used to cry when Michael Jordan would verbally abuse him. He is the player who once sat out a game because of “acne?” He is the player who once told Kobe he didn’t want the ball because he was “nervous.”
'But like, the game before we traded for Pau, were playing Detroit and I had like 40 points towards the end of the game. This is back when Detroit had Rasheed [Wallace], Chauncey [Billups] and those guys, so we had no business being in the game. So down the stretch of the game, they put in a box and one. So I’m surrounded by these players, Detroit players, and Kwame is under the basket, all by himself. Literally, like all by himself. So I pass him the ball, he bobbled it and it goes out of bounds.
“So we go back to the timeout and I’m [upset], right? He goes, ‘I was wide open.’ ‘Yeah, I know.’ This is how I’m talking to him, like, during the game. I said, ‘You’re going to be open again, Kwame, because Rasheed is just totally ignoring you.’ He said, ‘Well, if I’m open don’t throw it to me.’ I was like, ‘Huh?’ He said, ‘Don’t throw it to me.’ I said, ‘Why not?’ He said, well, ‘I’m nervous. If I catch it and they foul me, I won’t make the free throws.’ I said, ‘Hell no!’
“I go to Phil [Jackson], I say, ‘Hey Phil, take him out of the game.’ He’s like, ‘Nah, let him figure it out.’ So, we lose the game, I go the locker room, I’m steaming. Steaming. I’m furious. Then, finally I get a call, they said, ‘You know what, we got something that’s happening with Pau.’ I was like, ‘Alright. Cool.’…That’s what I had to deal with the whole year.”
The Kwame Brown experiment.
By coming out of high school as the number one pick, there was a lot of pressure on 18-year-old Kwame Brown. However, being hand-selected by Michael Jordan to help in his comeback was next level. Kwame wasn’t ready for it.
While Kwame thought he would receive mentorship from the greatest basketball player alive, he ended up receiving more abuse, which was well-documented.
According to multiple sources, Jordan would say and do everything he could to Brown in order to make him cry in front of the team. It worked, and like so many players before him, Kwame never recovered.
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anthony bennett will blow the biggest #1 pick bust title out the water.Brown was at least serviceable
