It’s sad and comical at the same time … which .. kinda makes him a clown heheh

taught me to largely ignore what struggling athletes say in interviews. When interviewed while on the Wolves, both sounded quite intelligent, aware of their faults (to some degree), and about to make a major step forward in their career.

Both played as dumb as a box of rocks and failed to improve.

I hate seeing talent like McCants do nothing with it.

Anyone played GTA San Andreas?

This dude has “OG LOC” written all over him, right?

Since they’re nearly the identical players, and Kobe can only survive with the team built for him in LA, isn’t it natural that he just take over after Kobe so the Lakers can extend window of opportunity?

It probably makes sense to start taking minutes from Kobe to YBG right now.

if even Isaiah Rider was this stupid? Rider at least showed up to teams who had an interest… well when he wasn’t smoking pot…. at least JR managed 8 (10 lacklustre games with nuggets don’t count for season 9) seasons in the league some of them pretty successful too lol

McCants is a story of a player who has supreme talent and just had teams get in the way of it. Due to him not being drafted as high as Kobe he was never really allowed to dominate the nba like he was capable of. With out doubt if someone would have let him establish himself the way he wanted he would have been scored 35 points a game.

Well at least in his own mind while somewhere out there (I think LA) Ryan Gomes for all his lack in talent is making a paycheck and helping is team.

at his apartment his first or second year to be his personal chef. It was the worst interview I’ve ever had. I spent 40 minutes playing phone tag with his agent inside his apartment(it was unlocked when I got there) only to realize he was asleep in his room the whole time, by which point I barely had enough time to cook before game time. He was kind of an asshole while I was cooking for him. Needless to say, I did not get the job.

To serve as an example to others.

Rarely do you see someone sabotage themselves so completely. I remember when he was drafted – was hoping we’d get Sean May because I didn’t want Shaddy’s Rider-esque attitude problem on the team. Interesting to note that Ray Felton is the only member of that UNC title team that has made any real impact in the NBA. Also interesting to see who was drafted after Shaddy that year (besides Granger, who we’ve bitched about ad nauseum) – Hakeem Warrick, Gerald Green (ummm, yeah…), Jason Maxiell, David Lee (1st round), C.J. Miles, MONTA ELLIS (yikes!), Andray Blatche, Ryan Gomes, Amir Johnson and Marcin Gortat (2nd round).

Didnt hold out for Eddie before making their waves

is the greatest athlete he as ever known. A legend in his mind.

of great talent and even greater delusions about that talent. He might have talent on par with someone like George Hill, but he thinks (literally, it seems) it’s on par with Kobe and LeBron.

If he were moderately overconfident, he’d be in the NBA making seven figures, but he’s delusionally (is that a word?) overconfident, so he’s unemployed, or owns other business or something.

Funny article. I feel bad for the guy, and hope he gains some self-awareness and humility so an NBA team will hire him before it’s really too late to cash in some on that talent.