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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

The Best Players Who Never Were Part 2

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Nate and Danny list their best players who, due to injury or tragedy, were never able to fulfill the promise it seemed they had.  Then we pick the players whose careers we most would have liked to see to their completion. Note that COVID Daily News is now a separate pod. Please subscribe to that show on its own feed via Apple, Spotify or RSS Feed, or by searching “Nate Duncan” in your podcast player. You can subscribe by searching “Dunc’d On” on your favorite podcast player.  And if you like this pod and want additional bonus content, please subscribe to support Nate and Danny at Patreon.com/DuncanLeroux.  Merchandise available at NateDuncanNBA.com, sponsors list also available at NateDuncanNBA.com. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA and Danny Leroux @DannyLeroux).

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0:00.0

All right, we had to take it to a part two because we had so many players we want to talk about these are the players who whether due to injury or

0:07.7

Unfortunate tragedy weren't able to fulfill their potential. We talked about number of players back in part one

0:13.6

I suggest y'all go back and listen to that if you haven't listened to it yet

0:17.1

And I guess we can get right into it here Danny

0:19.8

We can continue on with our list who you got let's go a little bit more modern

0:25.5

We have players from all over and talk about Gilbert Reenis arena sign you know was a early

0:31.4

You know the Creek you know the inspiration for the arena's role was after he assigned a two-year deal with the Golden State Warriors

0:37.6

And then the Washington Wizard signed him to a contract that the Warriors could not match and then he blossomed into a legit star in

0:44.7

Washington and then his career became sidetracked due to injuries really starting around his age 25 season

0:50.0

Yeah, I mean it 0607 towards the end of the 07 season

0:54.2

Injures his MCL, but was basically never the same that it was a the injury was so bad that he only played 13 games the next season

1:02.0

But those three years I talked about him a lot on a pot I do with John Honder about players from

1:07.4

Yesteryear who would have been even better today and he was really ahead of his time very James Harden asked actually in terms of his game

1:14.6

Got to the free throw line of time took a ton of threes. He topped out at eight threes a game

1:19.3

Most of them off the dribble and also took almost 10 free throw attempts a game as well during that time

1:26.9

Those Wizarded Offences were very good offenses. They were much better almost 10 points for 100 better when he was on the floor

1:33.5

Offensively then when he wasn't across 0506 and 07 and I really thought he could have been a top 10 NBA player

1:39.9

For another three four years. You know what would have happened to the Wizard during that period

1:45.0

I think he had Ernie Grunfeld as the GM

1:47.1

I don't think they would have broken through to really be elite in the east necessarily

1:51.3

But he ended up just getting traded to the magic didn't have it had that ugly incident with the gun in the locker room

1:57.9

Where he faced a substantial suspension, but it was really I mean he never got back to being the player that he was and was essentially out of basketball

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