I miss the sounds of sports: the crack of the bat, the loud check into the boards, the roar after a late game-winning goal. I even almost miss the sound of an unthinkable four-bounce shot.
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Illustration by Chris Thompson
Of the four worst players in the NBA by box plus-minus, a perfectly solid catch-all metric used by Basketball Reference, three are rookies, none of whom are old enough to buy their own drinks, one of whom was a second-round pick. The fourth is Isaiah Thomas. Those youths have promise and potential, in varying measures; Thomas is a husk. He plays for the Washington Wizards, and despite his team’s catastrophic lack of genuine NBA talent, Isaiah manages to make them demonstrably worse every time he takes the floor, which is often. He is the worst player in the NBA.
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Zion Williamson is big fun. Imagine all the Zion things that would have been blogged. Wouldn’t those have been fun blogs?
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A young NBA player who is butt. (Illustration by Albert Burneko)
Many young NBA players are springy and cool and good, such as, for example: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Luka Dončić, Trae Young, Jayson Tatum, etc. Future stars of the sport! On the other hand, many young basketball sons are sorry bozos with puke skills, fit only for the bottom of the dumpster. Below, in no particular order, is a list of some NBA youths—no rookies! Rookies are not eligible for this list—who fart rancid ass upon the hardwood.
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