Paul Pierce is a very respected former NBA superstar. The forward was the best player on the Celtics championship team. Any guesses at 1 Hint: His name is in the title. When Anthony was 8, he and his family moved to Baltimore.
Melo played for Oak Hill Academy, a boarding school in Virginia. He would play one of his eventual close friends LeBron James every-so-often. Anthony continued his basketball career at Syracuse University for a year, where he won the national college championship in his first and only year before his journey continued. Anthony was picked third overall by the Denver Nuggets.
Anthony came in second for rookie of the year voting behind James, but many say that Anthony was the one who deserved it. Anthony averaged 21 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 assists, while leading the Nuggets to an 8th seed in the playoffs, eventually losing to the MVP Kevin Garnett. James averaged 20 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists.
Carmelo Anthony believes that sport is a business, and loyalty should not be expected from athletes. The NBA community tends to adore superstars who are loyal. Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and Magic Johnson are only a few examples who became legendary mainly because they stayed with the same team throughout their careers.
These arguments have also become factors in fans hating athletes who dared leave their cities. Burning his jerseys and booing him on court became commonplace. If you go back and watch the tape though, all of his game-winning three-pointers were of the catch-and-shoot variety. He would stand in the corner, receive the ball without a defender in sight and drain the shot.
What goes overlooked is that those were shots he could have hit in his sleep thanks to the lack of hands in his face. We remember Horry for the handful of game-winners he hit. Why don't we remember that he shot for from downtown in his playoff career, good for just It wasn't like Horry knocked down every big shot he took. But if you don't want to believe me, believe Horry himself.
Here's what he said after making a game-winner against the Sacramento Kings back in "If I hit it, we win; if I miss, y'all are going to blame the stars for losing the game anyway. There's no pressure on me. Allan Houston was a great scorer for the New York Knicks until knee problems forced a premature end to his career. Mark Jackson was always viewed as one of the better point guards in the league when he played, and his shimmies were a poorly received sight if you were going up against the New York Knicks.
The floor general may have been one of the better passers that the game has introduced to us fans, but he was also a turnover machine with a low-usage rate. I really hesitated to put LeBron James on this list, but as long as people are still comparing him to the greatest player of all time, I have to out of fairness. James is the best player in the league now without any doubt. His issues in crunch-time are overblown, and he's having one of the greatest seasons anybody has ever put together.
But leave it to guys like Scottie Pippen and the diehard James fans to still make him overrated. Thanks to his playoff performances, high-flying, dunk-machine ways and the Grandmama Converse commercials, Larry Johnson was always in the spotlight just a little bit more than he should have been. Bill Laimbeer is only included here because I don't believe that dirty play should lead to your name being remembered down the road in a positive light, especially when your basketball skills were anything but great.
An incredible player who is well deserving of his Hall of Fame spot and placement in the top 20 basketball players of all time, Karl Malone is overrated because some people are willing to overlook his faults and put him in the top Despite the fact that he was given the nickname "The Mailman" because he always delivered, Malone managed to succumb to the pressure in the playoffs each and every year. He failed to ever win a title despite a great supporting cast around him and one of the greatest point guards of all time running the show.
Pistol Pete Maravich is in the Hall of Fame because of his college basketball prowess, not because of his brief tenure among the elite players in the NBA. Stephon Marbury was always bickering with coaches, shot just Yet, he was still a star, or rather a Starbury, because of his flashy offensive contributions. He was shipped off by multiple teams during his career once they realized just how overrated he really was.
Just in case you haven't noticed the theme, selfish scorers who don't contribute much are generally overrated in the mind of this writer. Bob McAdoo was a great offensive big man with a soft jumper, but soft could describe just about every other part of his game as well, except this time, it wouldn't be used as a compliment.
In February , Sports Illustrated ran a poll asking current NBA players who they thought was the most overrated player in the game.
I've always been a huge Kevin McHale fan, and I'm firmly convinced that only Hakeem Olajuwon has ever had a better set of post-moves, but he's still a bit overrated.
After all, it's a lot easier to put up numbers and win championships when you're playing alongside Robert Parish and Larry Bird on a nightly basis.
George Mikan is an interesting player from a historical standpoint because of his dominance in the infancy of professional basketball. He was the first true superstar and the player most commonly ranked highly in all-time lists from his era. But does anyone actually think that Mikan could compete today? Would he have won titles if the league had consisted of more teams and more good players?
Does it take away from his career? No, but if he did have better leadership qualities many would be more comfortable labelling him as a top NBA player. Has Carmelo Anthony had an impressive career? Yes, but it is a career that has been overstated.
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