LaMelo bests Miller for most potential. Now who has the most wasted potential in Hornets history?
August 22, 2024
LaMelo bests Miller for most potential. Now who has the most wasted potential in Hornets history?
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My vote goes to Malik Monk.
He’s actually a proven good basketball player unlike some of the other candidates like Kai Jones or James Bouknight.
His issues here were drug abuse and self admitted just not taking professional basketball seriously.
He’s become the player we all thought he could be elsewhere and truly did waste his real potential here with poor off the court decisions.
MKG gets my vote – no injury excuses like with Adam Morrison. Dude straight up just could not learn to shoot as the league became extremely 3 point centric during his career
Emeka Okafor feels like a good candidate. His unrealized potential was mostly due to injuries, but still fits the criteria
So IMO this has to be a high draft pick that people thought could be all star level and never really panned out. Also don’t think you can include traded picks like SGA or Kobe. As Monk has already been named I’m leaning towards Noah Vonleh or old school JR Reid from OG Hornets.
I’m gonna go with Noah Vonleh though. Was supposed to be a great C prospect and was a nobody from the start. Never even turned into a decent backup like a lot of failed C prospects.
I’m going to go a different direction here. The one that got away and wasted the potential of a rising Charlotte Hornets franchise.
My candidate for most wasted potential is Alonza Mourning.
Dude was a young, rising star player who we traded because of contract negotiation issues that we absolutely should have worked out. Mourning himself has come out and said he would have stayed if we would have not been so insultingly cheap. Went on to become a Hall of Famer who we didn’t get to enjoy.
Devonte Graham
PJ Hairston
Sadly, it’s Larry Johnson and it’s down to his back injury not him wasting his potential himself. He was on a Hall of Fame trajectory before his back problems derailed his career path. Rookie of the Year followed by a Second Team All-NBA season where he was 22 and 10 and was one of the rising stars of the league. He’s easily one of the Top 5 What-Ifs in NBA history.
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My vote goes to Malik Monk.
He’s actually a proven good basketball player unlike some of the other candidates like Kai Jones or James Bouknight.
His issues here were drug abuse and self admitted just not taking professional basketball seriously.
He’s become the player we all thought he could be elsewhere and truly did waste his real potential here with poor off the court decisions.
MKG gets my vote – no injury excuses like with Adam Morrison. Dude straight up just could not learn to shoot as the league became extremely 3 point centric during his career
Emeka Okafor feels like a good candidate. His unrealized potential was mostly due to injuries, but still fits the criteria
So IMO this has to be a high draft pick that people thought could be all star level and never really panned out. Also don’t think you can include traded picks like SGA or Kobe. As Monk has already been named I’m leaning towards Noah Vonleh or old school JR Reid from OG Hornets.
I’m gonna go with Noah Vonleh though. Was supposed to be a great C prospect and was a nobody from the start. Never even turned into a decent backup like a lot of failed C prospects.
I’m going to go a different direction here. The one that got away and wasted the potential of a rising Charlotte Hornets franchise.
My candidate for most wasted potential is Alonza Mourning.
Dude was a young, rising star player who we traded because of contract negotiation issues that we absolutely should have worked out. Mourning himself has come out and said he would have stayed if we would have not been so insultingly cheap. Went on to become a Hall of Famer who we didn’t get to enjoy.
Devonte Graham
PJ Hairston
Sadly, it’s Larry Johnson and it’s down to his back injury not him wasting his potential himself. He was on a Hall of Fame trajectory before his back problems derailed his career path. Rookie of the Year followed by a Second Team All-NBA season where he was 22 and 10 and was one of the rising stars of the league. He’s easily one of the Top 5 What-Ifs in NBA history.