14 Greatest NBA Careers WASTED on Bad Teams

[@jordanmetzger3772]

I feel bad for Tracy mcgrady and even really Lebron James. Not a huge fan at all but from the time he got there in 03 to the time he left to Miami he had really nobody.

[@josiawhig]

and lebron haters act like the people he had were even good or better yet all star level

[@wessteinfeld3337]

Lebron is wAayyyy overrated. He sucks compared to Kobe and MJ was better than Kobe so do the math. LePuss is at the bottom of the chodem pole

[@TheMiracleShot]

@@josiawhig bro played with kyrie irving, dwayne wade, chris bosch, kevin love, anthony davis and russel westbrook💀 bro had stacked teammates ever since he left the cavs the first time

[@MisterVicky9]

@@TheMiracleShot no way you're acting like 2022 russ is prime russ And no way you're acting like 2018 Bron didn't carry a bunch of make a wish kids to the finals

[@TheMiracleShot]

@@MisterVicky9 that still leaves kevin love, kyrie, ant davis, d wade and bosch💀

[@nevenpatrk9661]

Bruh how can you sit here and say that Russ spent some of his best years "on a bad team" when he has played with at least 1 superstar for the past 5 years and when Westbrook's limitations were one of the reasons why those Thunder teams were so bad. Yes, in his MVP season, the talent around him was lackluster but that was 1 season. In his final 2 years on the Thunder, he had Paul George on his roster, with one of those years being a season where PG was an MVP candidate. It's just not comparable to any of the other scenarios you mentioned, and even some that you didn't mention like LeBron's first stint in Cleveland.

[@someshnarayan7368]

You clearly didn't watch okc in the playoffs with pg then. There was a reason he was pandemic p. He had 2 points in the elimnation game against utah while russ was dueling with Spidey and they lost by a single possession. He was horrible for okc in the playoffs pg is not a good playoff player

[@therealest297]

Agree with somesh with the pg comment, he kinda of underperformed whenever it came to the playoffs. But I think Austin is also trying to paint these guys in a positive light. But people who actually watch basketball knows how it was and how some of these guys still are.

[@nevenpatrk9661]

@@therealest297 No I completely understand that and don't worry, Paul George deserves a fair amount of the blame for that OKC collapse. It's just that in comparison to some of the other examples, I don't see how they are the same. Most of these examples were of player's primes being wasted through factors that were mostly out of their control like injuries and poor team building by the front office. Westbrook on the other had, has only had 1 season where he wasn't playing with at least 1 player that was considered an all star or all star caliber player and most of the years that he was "wasted" came down to poor performances from either the superstars around Westbrook or by Westbrook himself.

[@TheIcemanthomas]

@@someshnarayan7368 russ was just as bad so that’s not a valid excuse.

[@someshnarayan7368]

@@TheIcemanthomas he wasn't my man. This is just a narrative now that it's fashionable to bash Russ. I watched his playoff performances from okc to Washington last year. he is a playoff performer he might not have always won but he played great in the playoffs. He dropped 45 and sparked a 25 point comeback to force a game 6 against Utah and damn near dropped 40 again while pg gave him 2 points and they lost by a single possession. Not to mention how there was a time when a discussion was ongoing whether he was better than curry or not he was that good. He has fallen off for the last couple of years as his athleticism has declined but make no mistake he was a beast in his prime and a huge reason why the okc thunder were a force in the west for almost 7 years if Beverly hadn't injured him his career would have been different

[@asufutumaehaefutbw5857]

Never forget: The 2009 Denver Nuggets were the only Western Conference team to ever make the Eastern Conference Finals. Quite an accomplishment if you ask me!

[@generull6552]

Huh

[@amauritorres4406]

Translation?

[@Altitude_Cardz]

Fr I caught that too

[@asufutumaehaefutbw5857]

@@Altitude_Cardz He also said “the ‘08 Nuggets” 😂 I like Austin though, so I’m not gonna hold it against him. I catch errors like that in all kinds of videos.

[@DiscGolfLeagueMVP]

@@amauritorres4406 Go listen closely to the Melo part of the video

[@commander3719]

If you put Wade and Bryant on this List then you DEFINATELY should have put Dirk Nowitzki, too. He spent over 20 years on a team that never really had a real Chance.

[@commander3719]

@Kevin Green Wade and Bryant won multiple Championships and are on the List. I am not a Rockets fanboy. I am a Mavs Fan.

[@TheIcemanthomas]

That’s absolutely not true. They were consistently solid for most of his career and had several season where they were absolutely dominating the league but choked coke playoff time. The mavs were always mid to high level contenders from 03 till around 2009 when they retooled to start building that title team.

[@Shawn-ho6de]

Wasn't that 2011 run awsome???!!! Not even a Mavs fan but I loved that team

[@charlesenigbokan5735]

Kemba Walker should be on here wasted his good years in Charlotte

[@540trey88]

Tracy McGrady was incredible in his prime. Kobe Bryant said that was the best player he ever played against

[@TheIcemanthomas]

No he didn’t. He said he was his toughest matchup.

[@540trey88]

@@TheIcemanthomas what's the difference?! 😅

[@540trey88]

@@TheIcemanthomas he said he could do everything and was bigger than him, he flat out said it out his mouth. They had an hour long special interview about it.

[@Shawn-ho6de]

Man....I remember T Mac but that was before I had ESPN and Cable.....wish I saw him in his prime. All of my friends as a kid said he was ballin

[@540trey88]

@@Shawn-ho6de TMAC was the kevin Durant of the early 2000s but better all around tbh. He averaged like 32 in the early 2000s, thats like 38 in today's fast paced league. He scored 13 points in 33 seconds, TMAC started the 1,2 crossover with the hesi pull up you see KD perform. He was UNBELIEVABLE

[@zachhk6108]

The 06-08 Denver Nuggets team was a legit mega-superteam and should have won a few titles but they just couldn’t compete with the teams. Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson, Nene, Marcus Camby, Kenyon Martin, Joe Smith, JR Smith, Chauncey Billups, Juwan Howard, Renaldo Balkman, and Chris “The Birdman” Andersen. Those teams had all-stars and MVP’s and yes a NBA champion which was Chris Andersen in 2013 with the Miami Heat. That team should be considered as one of the Top 10 teams ever assembled.

[@gigahoe42]

Melo caused his situation in NY of course. The teams he was on would have been way better if he'd not forced the move there when his contract was expiring

[@davidarrington4144]

I honestly don’t think Beal would be that good on a different team. I think he prefers the empty stats and money, because the empty stats look good on paper and he can blame his team

[@davidarrington4144]

Also… John Wall will go down as better than Bradley Beal all time

[@agencer50]

to be fair, LaVine and Booker were called "Empty stat guys" because their team wasn't winning... but when they started winning, their stats didnt even change. Plus Beal averaged 31 on 48% FG on a bad team. Just imagine that he will go to a good team, he will have more space with the ball and more room.

[@SirTinkle221]

@@davidarrington4144 whenever wall starts to play again 🤣

[@ObiC]

@@SirTinkle221 tbf it ain’t even John fault he ain’t playing literally the rockets just don’t wanna play him 😂

[@davidarrington4144]

@@SirTinkle221 Ima be real, in Walls comeback season though I thought he played very well all things considered. Houston’s roster was constantly fluctuating and he was still out there giving his all. It was on bad efficiency, but bro averaged 20 & 8 coming off destroying his Achilles

[@chrissullivan6572]

I can't agree with Washington with Gil, Dane in Portland Iverson in Philly, or T-Mac in Houston. Not being a championship caliber team is far from terrible.

[@Kingbossdon]

T-Mac and Yao were never healthy at the Sametime trust if they were that 2009 rockets 🚀 would have a championship T-Mac Yao Ron Artest Shane Battier Aaron Brooks Luis Scola member they took the Lakers to 7 just think if Yao didn't get hurt and T-Mac is there they win that game 7

[@Kingbossdon]

Gilbert after that 06 run 🏃‍♂️ it was downhill from there but he doesn't get hurt they do make a deep playoff run at least twice I would say. Iverson got Chris Webber late and him and Melo didn't establish a better report with each other. The trailblazers should have fought harder to keep L.A with C.J coming along they could have made it more of a series with the warriors

[@duncan2560]

Blazers have always been shitty with dame, hes only had one all star teammate in his whole career and it was aldridge who left in like 2014

[@lemini4k]

T-Mac wasn't just a bad teams issue, he had back problems that only progressed quicker once he joined the Rockets.

[@TheIcemanthomas]

Not to mention he had several choke jobs in series he should’ve won

[@lemini4k]

@@TheIcemanthomas You'd choke too if you had deteriorating discs in your back too. Lol

[@johnmilligan2964]

Pistol Pete takes the prize! The Jazz teams he was on were pathetic. His teammates were a bunch of hacks and the organization was doing nothing to make the team better.

[@KingSouja35]

Iggy also had a short appearance in Denver after leaving Philly.

[@VLE-Grimace]

Iggy can step on a rusty nail

[@mikesullivan229]

In my opinion I would say Vince cater because he never one a championship and the deepest he’s never been on the raptors was the second round and his raptors averages were 25 points and 6 assists so in my opinion he wasted his career in bad teams

[@TheIcemanthomas]

No. He played on a lot of really good teams. He just never elevated his game to be a franchise superstar like he should’ve. He was content with just being a star.

[@Shawn-ho6de]

Isn't that cool he played till he was well into his 40s?? That is pretty cool and amazing

[@jimboslice303]

One of Sacramentos biggest draft flops that was surprisingly not mentioned in this video: Jimmer Fredette

[@kohsmoger1567]

How about Lebron until he went to Miami. Those teams were god awful

[@ace2nice]

Best record in the league tho for two straight seasons

[@Xinikss]

@@ace2nice look at the cavs record the years after lebron left. that’ll explain it lol

[@TheIcemanthomas]

@@Xinikss duh. It’s common sense that if u build a team around a star with mostly role players that if u remove the main piece the others will struggle. The team was built perfectly for brons game.. but the issue with bron let teams has always been that HE WANTS TO DO EVERYTHING. Therefore everyone else is relegated to corner spot up guys with very little other shot creators. So no shit if that’s the team u built l, and the main star is ur foundation, if u remove the foundation everything else starts to crumble. That doesn’t mean the players were bad.

[@heidrun13]

@@TheIcemanthomas yeah but the cavs were always trash without Bron till this year, they are doing great this year

[@top3hree823]

The nuggest in 2008 was the first western conference team to make it to the eastern conference finals😭

[@K_Revival2]

Kings also got rid of Hassan Whiteside even though he kinda regressed

[@aidsjayy33]

surprised to not see kemba walker

[@aidanowens5646]

Or dame

[@ruffgodz9543]

@@aidanowens5646 ....

[@jamesbrakewood3632]

Melo is in the Westbrook genre of “great players”. Stats. Swag. But uncoachable and not winning players. The real waste in the Melo career is the NYK not seeing it and wasting all those years.

[@Deemy]

love the videos Austin !

[@Drake_24]

Love the vids man

[@christopherhawkins7388]

Denver tried to build around him. honestly it felt like he tried to sabotage them just to get what he wanted. Even took talent from them after he left. Him being top 75 over people like klay truly blows my mind.

[@Shawn-ho6de]

Totally agree!! Klay got robbed

[@nonamewillbegiven9989]

Well you dont seem to got much of a mind then

[@nonamewillbegiven9989]

@@Shawn-ho6de nope

[@Shawn-ho6de]

@@nonamewillbegiven9989 Are you telling me Klay wasn't robbed on the all time 75 ranking? You are wack jack.

[@nonamewillbegiven9989]

@@Shawn-ho6de he wasnt. I.diot

[@aklunar3063]

Demar wasted his career on the raptors were he never went to a nba finals and only one conference finals and got replaced for kawhi and saw his team win without him.Demar deserved better

[@champt1526]

Next video idea: ranking every teams 6th man.

[@bumblebeehumble]

TMac and Vince made the playoffs at a young age. It was TMac who left a good team cause he didn’t want to play in Vince’s shadow

[@Shawn-ho6de]

I like how he gets to the point and doesn't waste a lot of time

[@aktionpaccmb9434]

Carmelo Nuggets team was actually good all-around I actually think he should have stayed there. The nuggets made it to the playoffs every year no matter who was on there team and they were in the West. Nuggets always got far while melo couldn't. Nuggets is probably the best organization far as making playoffs. I also feel Iverson team wasn't bad even though A.I. was mostly the offense Philly was the top defensive team for 2yrs straight they was number 1 in defense.

[@Kingbossdon]

How Vince Carter not on this list with the Raptors

[@TheIcemanthomas]

They weren’t a bad team

[@Kingbossdon]

@@TheIcemanthomas but, part of his career was wasted because they were bad

[@rodericsanchez6852]

I love this guy’s voice bruh I makes me sleepy

[@MrMiD.Life.Crisis]

4:58 - it's impossible for them to reach any conference finals if they had only won 6 playoff games total. I get the 08 ECF was a slip!

[@LinasCMB]

TMac had so much potencial… It is sad that some players are injury prom:(

[@LehamCS]

hate being injury prom😢😢😢

[@quackmemes5410]

@@LehamCS same it’s so sad 😭

[@bikr2381]

@@LehamCS agreed :(

[@PriestDaSensei]

Prone* do you not have autocorrect

[@Dantana773]

SO you must not be aware of Mitch Richmond and his Time with those SAC kings teams from 1991 to 1998 but Mitch was putting up buckets and making the all star team...

[@joaquin-aguilar]

What year do you guys realistically see the Kings making the playoffs for the first time since 2006?

[@xlelitedan9186]

Whenever they trade fox imo I don’t think they’ll make the playoffs with him as the center piece

[@nevenpatrk9661]

I thought that the Kings finally had something going when they barely missed the playoffs in 2019 but then they fired Dave Yager for no reason and replaced him with one of the worst coaches in the NBA.

[@NevaSnitchTBO]

When they hire me as a coach

[@anom9970]

@@xlelitedan9186 lol

[@mikkyrevelljr7289]

I don't care what team a player plays for how good or bad they might be if somebody gets drafted to the NBA and produces over a long stretch of time what is a winner not they have a successful career. We put way too much on winning rings nowadays so much so that we don't even look at the players who haven't won one. Charles Barkley doesn't get taken nearly as serious as he should because he doesn't have a ring

[@TheIcemanthomas]

Cool story. But that has nothing to do with this topic. Lol.

[@ToastyDawg]

You already knew who was gonna be on this list🤦‍♂️

[@wyxttliv24]

Just woke up at 6am for this vid

[@juliantperez]

bro it's 3:44 pm

[@cactusprods]

4:47 dinwiddie is interested

[@andrewleitman4466]

Lebron actually made those cavs teams (03-10) look good. We all know how terrible those teams were.

[@TheIcemanthomas]

They weren’t terrible at all. They where average. Two completely different things.

[@MortanAMrk]

Indeed they eventually became okay

[@owengriffin2691]

For clarification, Garnett never wanted to leave Minnesota. He was traded without having a say in the matter.

[@dysfunctional4912]

How the timberwolves haven't retired the man's jersey who literally carried them for years and even managed to win the regular season MVP award shows how bad of an organization they are

[@TheIcemanthomas]

Not true. He spoke on him choosing his teams for the trade on all the smoke.

[@Arthimain]

Fax, great vid!

[@bigdrop87]

Gotta calling 🧢 on Tracy. Yes the team was bad but it was only because Tim Duncan didn’t sign and Grant Hill was injured the entire time he didn’t just sign to Orlando for any reason. They were going to be the original big 3. S.N. Grant Hill definitely should of been on this list.

[@MineShackle]

TIL The Nuggets made the Eastern Conference Finals in 2008

[@yungdudda2x]

he got year and the conference wrong

[@onlydopekid]

We will eventually have this talk about Embiid

[@nonamewillbegiven9989]

Not really

[@ridiculousgaming8582]

Reggie miller spent his entire career caring the Pacers bruh

[@Coolkidbois]

Kobe won so much in different times until he got injured he was in his prime

[@papadoc331]

I feel like this says more about some players then the teams

[@champt1526]

What about Kemba?

[@AyakaAkira31]

I feel bad for T-mac the most

[@curtisgoulard3106]

I bet you if Tyreke Evans would have worked out and not played out of positions and the kings actually kept him it would have been different

[@foualter102]

Beal choose to be on a Bad TEAM... He must not ask for a better roster as he has a chance of leaving that team but instead he choose the MONEY

[@gmoney2126]

You should add Patrick Ewing. This guy had No one but role players.

[@nonamewillbegiven9989]

M.oron

[@kianpettersen2400]

i dont think there is such a think as wasting talent on bad teams the historic plays and moments will always be there no matter the team u dont have to be in playoff contention to have a good career the small markets deserve to have superstars sometimes

[@maximinogarcia593]

feel bad for dame

[@ajmars1768]

you include Wade and Kobe, but not LeBron? cmon the Cavs were terrible during young LeBron & year 2018

[@pmeditzz]

I ten years (if he doesn’t leave for a super team) Luka Doncic

[@dusandjordjevic8556]

Do not forget Boban Marjanović!

[@MrMarchollywood]

Don't forget Mitch Richmond

[@leos_27]

Gobert on the Jazz

[@alfredhung901]

T-Mac left the Raptors, it was a sign and trade to Orlando. The Raptors were an up and coming team. He could have stayed in Toronto to play with Vince Carter during both of their prime. He chose to go to bad team. Get your facts right; it was his personal choice. Bad video.

[@nonamewillbegiven9989]

He wanted to team up with Grant Hill as well as Tim Duncan who considered the Magic

[@Tayeeeeeeee]

Cuh meant western conference finals 😂

[@juzt_sebas]

I think you could’ve also mentioned dirk, Vince carter, and lebron at the beginning of his career.

[@TheIcemanthomas]

It’s about their whole career not the beginning. It’s a given that most lottery picks will be on bad teams.

[@juzt_sebas]

@@TheIcemanthomas brodie he added iguodala, kevin garnett, kobe, and dwade to the list

[@juzt_sebas]

@@TheIcemanthomas some of them was good in the beggining but bad in the middle or was bad in the beggining and good at the end

[@simpatiko3269]

If McGrady did not left the Magic, he gonna teamed up with Howard and injuries will never ruined his career + he can reach the semis/ecf. I hope Garnett joins the Celtics earlier in his career like the early 2k's so he's not gonna wasted his talent due to his loyalty. I wish Beal and Lillard left their team while time is running out.

[@Basketball_is_Life66]

Bro.. Marcin Gortat was a staple in their playoff runs. Ask John wall. That was a weird comment

[@aleksandarboskovski5026]

SACRAMENTO KINGS should lose their Nba game licence .... Like literally the worst franchise ever

[@matthewsanchez3906]

Lillard is the most talent wasted currently

[@diegoruacho8620]

Bro Charles is 6 6 while Dr.J is 6 7 why does Dr.J look Shorter than Charles

[@lincolnhamilton7043]

Dominique Wilkins World B Free Shareef Abdul Raheem Stephon Marbury

[@lordblood380]

Damian Lillard is gonna be number 1 on this list

[@Historicutuber]

Carmelo really did waste his prime

[@Jaden_Iv3y]

Luka kinda looking like that rn

[@lordblood380]

You need to timestamp your "picks"

[@williamblake7386]

I do not understand the criteria. It seems like sometimes its career and sometimes just a couple of years.

[@melosmith3183]

melo 😢 wasn’t a waste

[@jamesbeachem2003]

There is a difference between a bad and underachieving team.

[@TheIcemanthomas]

People seem to think any team that doesn’t have at-least 2 stars is automatically bad.

[@issotoudabueno0433]

Must of the player you mentioned played with good and great teams when in prime.. you need to know the difference between being in the peak of there prime and playing with bad teams so thier number get inflated ... Wade in his prime played with shaq and lebron, Kobe in his prime won title and team was built around him, Russ is his prime played with PG melo then harden then Beal ... You out of ur mind if those are bad teammates

[@TheIcemanthomas]

Wade didn’t play with shaq in his prime. He was still young when shaq came. Shaq was gone and most of the team retired or left by the time wade took off as an mvp caliber talent. Not to mention he spent several years dealing with knee injuries during that span after the 06 title.

[@jonathanjay1423]

Beal is all about 💰….🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Rico47USA]

Dame Lilllard

[@lookatmyshirt347]

I feel bad for dame tho

[@gregdubs3763]

Nah he’s chosen to stay multiple times, he just likes putting up good stats on a mediocre team and taking no blame when they don’t win

[@NevaSnitchTBO]

@@gregdubs3763 nah he just not running from the grind💪💯💯

[@KyleNamiteVlogs]

Is it just me or the video does not look smooth?

[@burgermane8839]

How could you put Wade and Kobe here. Should’ve put Cavs Bron on here then

[@Linmus]

How about Paul Pierce before the '07-'08 season? Outside of Antione Walker (who at best was an ok allstar) he played with out of their prime players, scrubs, or young guys who would go on to be better years down the line.

[@eloisajoydomingo2665]

what about dirk

[@Michael-vn2jj]

How is Chuck on here? Lol PHX had a good team all 4 years, he then went to a defending champ HOU team with Hakeem. Yeah older but not a bad team. They made WCF. Chuck has played with a ton of all stars and even HOFers, never won but wasnt wasting away on bad teams lol he had a couple years on a bad philly team, thats it

[@JustCav101]

1st off denvers in the west so Melo made western conference

[@bassdogmarco]

Your 2 second Toronto McGrady analysis is dead wrong as you're too young to understand what truly happened there. In the end, he walked because he couldn't handle the cold weather and didn't want to share the spotlight with Carter. Go look at the current vids that he talks about regretting leaving Toronto. He picked a Florida sun and broken down Grant Hill to play with over Vince Carter. The Bulls also came close to getting him but Chicago was just another cold ass place like Toronto with no MJ.

[@treystorr9859]

Bruh how can you say iggy wasted his career when he has 3-4 chips and a finals mvp

[@ruffgodz9543]

that's why he said he's going to mention players who wasted their prime.

[@ruffgodz9543]

@Kevin Green His prime was wasted on a bad team. His prime was at philly not in gsw.

[@lesterjohntalde296]

No Kemba??

[@MrAnonymous389]

Did bruh say New Orleans jazz?🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[@coreyroberts47]

They moved to Utah? Like their name is literally jazz bro thats the most nola thing ever. Maybe other than gumbo

[@Coolkidbois]

How's Russ wasted that's one year of his prime he still wouldn't win a championship that year

[@jimbobfisher8904]

bro how tf are wade and Kobe on here when they both got 3+ rings on the same team lol they can't make the playoffs every damn year not even Jordan or Kareem did that....and you don't have any of lebrons Cavs teams where he played with crackheads and janitors.

[@440-fishermandrock8]

nothing is wasted when you're making hundreds of millions of dollars LOL. they did just fine

[@lebronjamesbandwagon5970]

How tf are you gonna miss Cavs 1st stint LeBron James?

[@teodorhristev7864]

Half of those literally should not count, let alone you missing LeBron...

[@jackjosephturell90]

He signed with Orlando, Bum

[@Yung_Baby_Lotion]

Bradley Beal was terrible this season

[@CowbellStudioss]

early gang!

[@jamespoulter1074]

Damian lillard

[@Wegottfanzz]

Jesus loves you and is the only way to heaven

[@Yung_Baby_Lotion]

If KG isn’t on the list ima cry