The World Thought Xavier Henry Was Gonna Be A STAR! Stunted Growth

[@stuntedgrowth]

Had just about all the tools to be a star, and opportunity. But sometimes things don't go as planned then what?

[@papito2lindo]

Only Die Hard NBA fans would know this guy… Your a real one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TheBsheep]

Fun fact: In 2009 Xavier Henry was actually committed to the University of Memphis along with Demarcus Cousins. John Wall was waiting on Tyreke Evans to leave and he was committing. Calipari left for Kentucky and took Walls and Cousins with him. Instead of following Cal to Kentucky, the school allowed Henry to de-commit and he chose to joined the University of Kansas.

[@kickgamesoccer2360]

Wall said he aint wanna play with henry anyways🤣😂

[@The918dad]

I played in the same AAU program as Xavier. Good guy! Had an NBA body as a Freshman in high school. I agree he just wasn’t ready for the pros when he went and injuries. Salute to Xavier! Oklahoma legend!

[@giuseppec3257]

Next up...Thomas Robinson! from same Kansas team and has also a personal amazing story life ;)

[@winstonjames2583]

Already done I think

[@giuseppec3257]

no unfortunatly@@winstonjames2583

[@Cwilk_Sucks]

Finally! Been waiting on this one everyone in OKC thought he had next

[@jydaflyest]

Real talk.

[@The918dad]

I’m from Tulsa and used to go down to the City to play with him sometimes when he was in 8th grade and Freshman year. One of the best to ever come out of Oklahoma. Big and left handed. Him and Moose had Putnam beating everybody when he was a freshman.

[@showtimesportsmedia6906]

That was my man on them old Kobe lakers I thought he was next for us when he was in the league he had some good nights 😂

[@johntheprofessional5039]

I swore this guy was going to be the next Jim Jackson.

[@joenumbashhm]

When I tell you I literally just looked this man up, I did yo. Appreciate you being on time with this ep as I've always wondered where Xavier went. Keep em coming SG. Salute!

[@raghurajaram700]

damn out the league @ 23!!! insane. he was a cool pickup for LA when he was there i thought! and for these reasons, xaivier henrys growth, was stunted! i love how u end videos like that...peace and much love bro!!!!

[@EverybodyLovesJorrye]

He looked the part of an NBA wing but you could tell after the nonconference slate for Kansas that this dude wasn’t it…he disappeared too easily bc he couldn’t dribble all you had to do was cut off that left hand and guard him closely on the perimeter

[@chester2847]

Let's not forget he was NICE with the Lakers... sucks that he suffered an injury but he was fantastic addition to that team...

[@elliemyers6435]

Loved this!!! Would love to see one on Shelden Williams :)

[@justineebourgeois3420]

Xavier Henry > Killian Hayes

[@Ez3s]

Tyler Ennis > Hayes

[@Anythingshort16]

not

[@justineebourgeois3420]

@@Anythingshort16 yes he is better then soft-ass Killian 🤷‍♀️

[@Anythingshort16]

@@justineebourgeois3420 nah! killian runs the point xavier henry is just a darvin ham 2.0

[@justineebourgeois3420]

@@Anythingshort16 Killian Hayes is soft lightskin boy and has 0 dawg in him. Maybe because he grew up rich in France 🤷‍♀️

[@jaybrown7811]

He helped out Kobe for a couple games before he got hurt from what I remember

[@jydaflyest]

Leaving after his freshman year was a bad idea. Had he stayed one more season, he would've gotten considerably more minutes on a team that was just as good -- if not better , than the previous year (the 2010-11 team had the Morris twins and Thomas Robinson, and made it to the Elite Eight in 2011). Looking at the 2011 draft, it's not that to see Henry going in the Top 10, and possibly to a team that would've been willing to give him more time to heal and develop. He got drafted by the Grizzlies who, at that point, were a perennial playoff contender, and didn't really have a role for him, or the patience to develop him either.

[@maceothompson2172]

Throwback to the 2014 season. As a Laker fan I thought he was a gem

[@elmayimbe_the_amateur_mechanic]

Next up...Josh Selby. I thought these 2 were gonna make it from KU

[@aboutmillions]

My little brothers hooped with Xavier at Putnam with him. They still keep in touch with him, he was COLD af back then. most dont know but Unfortunetly he developed a "Skiing" habit in the league. That alone killed his work ethic.

[@Nick-er8wx]

You mean coke?

[@stanhelsing1000]

Man was “hitting the slopes” like Tyreke Evans.

[@mitchy2311]

​@@stanhelsing1000thought tyreke was on the WEED(Stephen A Smith voice

[@mikebears4954]

​@@mitchy2311tyreke failed for weed coke and jiggas 😂

[@kennyblackbird5674]

Yeesh!

[@tonybell333]

"it doesn't matter who you're parents are" applies to everyone except Bronny

[@MrBuliths]

so let's look at it from his perspective. lets say he stayed in college. his injuries started his rookie year which mean it would have been his sophomore year. The injuries continued well into his final year. So if he stayed in college when the injuries started there's a good to great chance he doesn't make it to the nba bc of this. So yes, he was stunted but he was allowed to achieve his dream.

[@Lutongnabahay808]

He looked great off the bench for the Lakers during the 2013-2014 season. Damn shame that knee injury pretty much killed it for him.

[@akeemjackman9582]

Can you do an episode of Austin Freeman from Georgetown or Keenan Evans from Texas Tech?

[@chiefwidemarsh]

Of all the guy's you've covered, this is the first one I like actually completely forgot about. Guy had an incredible amount of hype heading in.

[@jrodzilla24]

Basically all players coming out early, look at the league now! anyone can dribble iso and shoot at will! he would’ve been great in this era..

[@elliemyers6435]

This is good one....I wonder if he had gone somewhere else, if he could've developed more of that Alpha Dog mentality...That KU team he joined was just so loaded, and he fit in perfectly there, but never really had to carry the load himself. He was just so talented and smooth...I am partial to lefties, and he really did have a pretty lefty stroke. Bummer he didn't make it in the league

[@justinhaterproof1276]

My childhood friend. We grew up together in eagle ridge in NW OKC

[@jayrodriguez2408]

Henry was one of my favorite players on those bad Laker teams, unfortunate injuries ruined his career.

[@clwashington35]

Great video. Another player from the AI era was Speedy Claxton! I love to see you do a video on him!

[@vinf.9233]

i remember in 2k11 xavier henry was very hard to beat as a rookie.

[@austinwilliams7379]

Oklahoma legend man😢😢

[@anthonyalston2607]

😂😂 no way John Starks

[@austinwilliams7379]

@@anthonyalston2607 both can’t be? Anyone born in the 90s-2000’s don’t really know about him lmao ironically he’s my family too💀

[@stevenstubbs9821]

PLEASE DO LOUISVILLE POINT GUARD REECE GAINES.

[@Geelow_Swingin]

Hooped with him in an open gym and he was a straight beast.. thought for sure he would be a star in the league

[@IamJMcGill]

Oklahoma Legend 🫡

[@gordonowens7741]

You should do on thanasis antetekumpo how or why has he been on a NBA roster so long

[@manontheemooon2335]

One of my favorite prospects and lakers

[@JayTeeAyy]

So close to having Shannon Brown and Xavier Henry on the same Lakers team 🙄

[@lilernez2347]

His brother cJ Henry (Memphis) was good too

[@jydaflyest]

CJ was drafted in the first round by the Yankees in 2005.

[@amart0]

this is random, but is there a different person running the channel from a few years ago? The voice has changed completely since I last watched a video The content is still great btw

[@RatedKwong1]

Derrrick Williams from Arizona

[@skfotedar]

He did him already

[@oceancycloneblue5356]

Always thought he had weird proportions for his height. Very powerful but undersized for a pf.

[@ncnyc4418]

Him and lance were the first players n my class I heard about n 8th grade

[@knowledgeBornSupremeAllah]

What happened to UNLV guard Anderson Hunt

[@darmor85]

As being a grizzlies fan ...i thought we were the only ones who remember bruh😂..we drafted him thought he was him bruh never quite got there

[@josewayne412]

I put him on nba live back in the day

[@bladebrowntv7822]

He was just in Houston getting that chiropractic ring dinger

[@johngittings4673]

Maybe what John Wall said about Xavier Henry carried some weight. Guys who are inefficient chuckers in high school and college definitely don’t last long in the NBA. Another player Stunted Growth should do a video on is Archie Goodwin.

[@XabzintheNBAGuru]

Happy new year man

[@zombiesheepherder1482]

I know you make BASKETBALL VIDEOS Think about making a video about the Band CROWN THE EMPIRE It could be the exact same format, except the video isn’t about a player, its about a Band that also had Stunted Growth

[@eddietalley534]

Man Xavier was supposed to be that guy. I remember those dark Laker days

[@faceman7966]

dope video I totally forgot about him

[@WestCoastWYN]

Fasho thought I was gon get a shoutout for this one 😂

[@josewayne412]

He was nice

[@Major613]

Stacey Augmon Damon Flint Terry Dehere

[@winstonjames2583]

Just saw him getting his back cracked on a yt short...

[@Nardyma201]

How are you not at 100k subs

[@skfotedar]

Do Marcus Liberty

[@buzzerbeater3350]

Wow! You remember Marcus Liberty?!!! Big ego on that guy. I never met him personally but, I remember his interviews.

[@DJBlack909]

Xavier should have stayed in college longer. That way his game would have grown and his physical and mental being as well.

[@troylee4196]

Shouldn't have went to Kansas, that place develops no one

[@altaariq]

He doing a lot of carrying with that ball

[@IZZICC]

He is a classic case of being too good too early which made him not work as hard because it came easy. What the top high school kids don’t realize is from high school to the NBA for some of those kids is 2 years and their mentality stays on the high school level therefore lacking the preparation it takes to be successful in the league.

[@troylee4196]

Was he that good though? I feel plenty of players from 2007 to 2015 were highly rated but didn't even do anything in college yet drafted high

[@J.E.T.Lee16]

Finally 🙌🏾🔥

[@johnreesekl6249]

Can you do Courtney Alexander =)

[@Crazy_e193]

He shouldve followed Cal to UK

[@christiansamaroo]

Any guy who joins the Lakers the fans think is going to be a star.

[@Realest1ne]

I thought he was gonna be so cold

[@cameronpalmer401]

I just remember John Wall saying he DID NOT want to play with him in college 😂

[@shun8733]

Do you have a Wesley Johnson one ? He was supposed to be something too

[@troylee4196]

That whole draft he was in was filled with players like that Didn't even hear of him in college But he went to the TWolves when they were career suicide so that was probably it

[@CasterShellz]

He came out of college way too early. Should've stayed at least another year. Maybe he got some intel that if he left school early, he was going to be a lottery pick.

[@johnreesekl6249]

"Arguably?" Nah, Injuries are the #1 reason people bust, and it's not even close.

[@shayang5837]

Marquis Daniels?

[@Kplattjr1]

Xavier Henry = Brandon rush = JaRon rush🤦‍♂️💯

[@muscleboundmovers9446]

I’m extremely familiar with this story. When you look back at most of his highlights, you’ll discover that his skills werent polished enough for the next level. You made good points about his mother and father (Carl and Barbara) both being great athletes, but you left out the part about his brother Carl Jr., who was arguably a better athlete than Xavier. Xavier was bigger and so much better than everyone else he competed against ih high school, that there was no barometer to measure against therefore he was not pushed to work harder and polish his skills in order to excel at the next levels. He ended up being just a slightly above average shooting guard with the injuries too much to overcome. He had all kinds of basketball people and spirits around him, but he did not possess the “dog mentality” to go along with it to excel at the NBA level.

[@RAZYRAZY1124]

You gotta be from OKC cause this is all facts he didn’t even have to play defense in HS, those years of 6A were fairly easier

[@muscleboundmovers9446]

Yes Sir. I was a member of the 6A State Championship team Northwest Classen Knights in 1982 so I'm getting old. I played in the Mid State Conference against Xavier's Dad Carl, who played for U.S. Grant. Putnam City, the school that Xavier played for was in our conference back then and I don't ever remember losing to them. @@RAZYRAZY1124

[@DerrickL23]

Not from Oklahoma but i graduated from MWC in 2008 ... Xavier Henry would have destroyed 6A beyond measure if he played today lmao ... They had no answer for Carl'sheon Young this year at the 6a level and Henry was leagues better at that same age

[@RAZYRAZY1124]

@@DerrickL23 na you got it backwards, MWC is 5A this year, they barely beat my BTW for 5A state this season. 6A was won by 5 star sophomore at Owasso who is actually nice.

[@Jboogie._]

Can you do Vernon Carey jr or Frank Jackson?

[@maki-sy2fr]

Can you do Justin Brownlee please?🙏🥺

[@modernmythology]

do James Michael Mcadoo

[@Vcuuuuuuu]

Have you done Scotty Hopson?

[@davontaylewis9986]

Tyreke Evans

[@JaeSproo]

note/fun fact: "ZAH-VEE-AYYE" is how his Xavier is pronounced.

[@THop2323]

Can you do a story Kat Williams?

[@jrcrashin4575]

Bro I like your content been a sub for a couple years but I personally feel like your intros give out too much info . You basically told me eveything I needed to know no need to keep watching the rest of video

[@comfortmobilecarwash9561]

Do Patrick Christopher he is Josh Christophers oldest brother & went viral a couple years ago for looking like lebron while siiting in the stands at an nba hame

[@comfortmobilecarwash9561]

he also played a couple games for the Jazz (i think) & was on the verge to get a regular contract, but got hurt in a game

[@comfortmobilecarwash9561]

went Cal-Berkley for college

[@WakethBaketh]

Dude from Cal. I remember him

[@danielward8645]

should have went to Kentucky tbh.

[@user-mm6fu5gw5y]

Kareem townshe

[@illdaniel]

He looks like Ish from the Joe Budden podcast 😂

[@rose4mvp2012]

Add another one to the "way too damn good on 2K but kinda sorry in real life" pile. He was a mf problem on the game man. Like if you never watched the NBA and only played 2K you would think he was a top 5 SG in the NBA that's how good they had him.

[@jrodzilla24]

Ball brothers on 2k too

[@troylee4196]

Terrence Williams

[@ACFord]

Most guys need 3 years to get ready for a decent NBA career. Unfortunately, today's ONE AND DONE climate forces guys out before they're even close to being ready.

[@Alajuwon]

I remember when i seem him in KU i knew he was trash. Im not surprised at all he wasn't any good or gonna last.

[@lboogie501legend]

football i can understand but how intelligent do you have to be to play basketball

[@yarrell2467]

Lmfaooo I thought this dude was really gonna be elite for the lakers smh

[@philstewart345]

"Stunted Growth" making success off of people's failures! I ain't mad at you!😂

[@scoobydoobap68]

nobody cares