According to the Washington Post,
The least distinguished careers in NBA history
Who’s done the least with the most seasons played?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...mepage%2Fstory
You now what else Dahntay Jones has? An NBA ring.
I'm a fan.
Take it as an honor. The NBA is a cut-throat meritocracy--there's always another guy in the D-League (or G-League) or Europe who's working his tail off to make the NBA, and then you get a new crop of rookies every year. If you can bring a particular talent and refine it such that NBA teams want to employ you for nine seasons? You're a obviously doing something right.
Congrats to NBA champion Dahntay Jones. Hope he can sign up somewhere for one more season.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill
President of the "Nolan Smith Should Have His Jersey in The Rafters" Club
Boy, do I wish I could have had a "crappy" career at the pinnacle of my profession, to the tune of $18 million over 13 years.
The entire premise of the column is asinine.
Of the several billion people who have played basketball, he is currently among the 500 best in the world.
How would you rank in your chosen profession worldwide?
Entertaining article, but there is ZERO shame in being a 10+ NBA veteran.
Dante is a winner in life.
My thoughts exactly. It may not seem like much of an "honor" at first but he deserves a lot of credit for scraping and hustling to keep his NBA career going for quite a long time. Plus, he has made a decent pile of money along the way. All the more power to him!
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
I appreciate the article and the care and detail the author went into. But -- maybe this is just me -- but looking at the list from 1 to 20 -- I couldn't tell if #1 or #20 was the "worst of the worst" of the "best of the worst."
I did note that 7-5 Chuck Nevitt played only 826 minutes in nine seasons (although some were apparently less than full seasons).
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Randy Livingston is high up on that list (2.3 win shares in 11 seasons). Every time I see his name I think of what he could have been. He was one of the greatest high school point guards ever, ranked as the #1 player in his class.
In high school he was the kid who could do anything he wanted on the floor. If his team needed scoring, he was a lethal shooter and had the hops to get to the rim and finish over much taller players. If the opposition double or triple teamed him, he was a savant passing the ball, expertly finding teammates with passes they could barely see coming but which led to easy buckets. He was a psychic on defense, picking pockets or intercepting passes with ease.
Like I said, he was the #1 player in his class... a class that included Rasheed Wallace, Jerry Stackhouse, Jacque Vaughn, and other great players.
And then he blew out his knee while playing pick up basketball over the summer and he was never the same. Not even close. The fact that he scraped out a 10+ year NBA career is a miracle given how bad his knee injury was.
-Jason "what might have been... I saw Livingston play in high school once... and it was simply unreal" Evans
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WaPo won't let me read the article, but our almost Blue Devil, one Adonal Foyle, must be on the list, right (not that I really know what the list represents...).
Thirteen years in the league, I'd say by comparison Dahntay was a superstar*. (edit: foyle average 4.1ppg, dahntay 5.4, in your face, Adonal!)
*ok, i exaggerated.
What is Nazr Mohammed doing on that list? He had several years where he was a very useful NBA player. He was a starting center for much of his career (350+ starts) who did a decent job grabbing rebounds (5+ rpg in 7 seasons) and protecting the rim (8 seasons with a strong 3.5%+ block percentage).
His win shares per season only looks really low because he stuck around a while late in his career doing next to nothing. He had 5 seasons where his win shares were higher than 3.5. By comparison, Avery Bradley (3.1), Dwayne Wade (3.4), Derrick Favors (2.7), Rodney Hood (2.6), Willie Cauley-Stein (2.9), Nick Young (3.2), Devin Booker (2.0) and plenty of other very solid NBA players had less than 3.5 win shares last season.
-Jason "the more I look at that article, the more silly it seems" Evans
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Chuck Nevitt currently works where I work. I see him walking around now and then.
Where is Damien Wilkins on this list? 13 seasons, 12.2 WS, 6.3 ppg.
https://www.basketball-reference.com...wilkida02.html
It is like the folks who wrote that article barely did any research.
Alan Anderson - 7.4 WS in 8 seasons
Randy Foye - 23.5 WS in 11 seasons
Joel Anthony - 15.3 WS in 10 seasons
Jamal Tinsley - 17.2 WS in 11 seasons
Mike James - 22.3 WS in 13 seasons
But they all pale in comparison to Melvin Ely... 4.0 WS in 9 seasons. That's impressive.
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So he's kinda like Chucky Brown (holds the record for most different NBA teams played for)...12 teams (with twice in Charlotte and Cleavland)...and is the second player to win an NBA title and CBA title in the same season!
Chucky Brown sports an impressive 19.0 WS.