Great Careers Ruined By Injuries Thread

[Goatpoacher]

Does Len Bias count?

 

[GzUp]

The point gaurd from the clippers

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Garrison Hearst



I believe dude was a top 5 pick.


[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dgrjrp6jXE[/ame]


Could never stay healthy, but for the rare times he was able to play, you could just see that dude was a talented runner.



Andre Wadsworth....When dude was at Florida State, people where calling him potentially the best DE ever

Dude was strong, fast, used his hands well, and had a squeaky clean image.You wanna know how highly regarded he was by scouts? A lot of scouts had him rated the #1 player in the draft over Peyton Manning


He was drafted by the Cardinals and missed all of training camp because they were trying to low ball him on his signing bonus.Dude signed a contract a day before the first game of the season and had to take a private jet to meet up with the team.He was in shape, but not football shape.He ended up getting injured and only playing 8 games.....I believe he still had 6 sacks.He never recovered from that shyt

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Penny Hardaway is probably the one that hurt me the most, I thought he was gonna change the game. Was the first college player I tried to watch any chance I could get..

Did he tear his Achilles?

 

[3rdLetter]

Ima throw out some obvious soccer ones

 

[K-Apps]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZlk1SCYmJ0"]Pavel Bure Highlights Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

Could've been one of great goal scorers of all time. Imagine if he could've played in today's NHL

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Penny Hardaway is probably the one that hurt me the most, I thought he was gonna change the game. Was the first college player I tried to watch any chance I could get..

Did he tear his Achilles?

As a kid, I patterned my game after Penny's.



He had every skill.Ball handling, sick J, passing, defense, post game, hops, and he used both hands well.


I was living in Los Angeles at the time, but my uncle would always call me from NY and give me pointers on the game.He's one of those basketball fundamentalist/purist types.Coched AAU and trained with the Lakers back in the 80's.


The player that he told me to study if I wanted to work on my all around game and get my skills right was Pete Maravich.He actually sent me that Pistol Pete basketball drill series

.shyt had me feeling clairvoyant out there on the court.



But when Penny first hit the scene, my uncle was raving about him.He just hit me on the horn one day like "This new boy Anfernee Hardaway, you keep a eye on him, and watch how he plays"


Penny wasn't a super athlete type.He was a very good athlete, but he was cerebral, to.He carried himself with composure and never got rattled.His game was never out of control....if I had to use a word to describe his game, I'd say "graceful" nh....Damn shame he couldn't stay injury free

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

This Guy used to do cats dirty on the court...

One of NY's finest...Bernard King

 

[seanjohn21276]

Techmo Bo

He wasn't the same after the knee injury in 91

 

[mastermind]

edit: prior pic of Bernard King was used

Im probably reaching here, but dude was looking good before the injury.

 

[OPTiMO]

 

[EffedUp]

What about Larry Johnson?

Fortunate to play 10 years but shyt wasn't the same after hurting his back (going into his 3rd yr.).
fukkin' up your back and you ain't even hit your prime yet...