Top 5 Least Favorite NBA Players

Fellas,

As you all get to know me better, you will realize (If you already haven’t) that I love to talk about anything negative. I love to hate on people, and decided a great way to combine my true passion and skill (Talking bad about people behind their backs), along with NBA basketball would be to do a post in regards to my Top 5 least favorite players in the NBA.

5. Dwight Howard

Let me start by saying this-I absolutely love this guy’s game. He is extremely skilled defensively and plays his butt off. Thanks to the work of Hakeem, he has a developing post game with a couple really good counter moves. Outside of his on the court performance is one of the most annoying players in basketball. I’m not going to say he isn’t competitive because he is, but this guy is leaving so much on the table with his goofy, childish personality. Does he appear to be a nice guy? Yes. Is he funny? No. On top of not being funny, he is constantly trying with his 6 year old child personality. Maybe other people find him funny and that’s why he can’t stop trying, but I can’t remember the last person I laughed at because he had a “Goofy” personality. You would think a 6’10” physical freak would be one of the most intimidating players in the league. Personally, I’m more scared of Matt Barnes.

4. Rashard Lewis

I will begin by stating the obvious-It’s unbelievably insane and ridiculous that he is one of the highest paid players in the league. That being said, it’s not his fault the NBA GM’s (See Otis Smith, David Kahn, Ed Stefanski) are some of the most idiotic employees on the planet. My problem with Rashard is that he is really, really bad at basketball and even worse to watch. He gains publicity as a 3-point shooter simply because he is tall and more than willing to shoot it. The only other way Lewis can score is by doing what every 6’10” “Big” should never do if they were the least bit tough, smart or good-Fade away. For some reason, NBA GM’s think Lewis can create matchup problems because he can spread the floor and be a tough cover for other big man. The issue is that Lewis possesses no positive attributes that should warrant being defended by a PF or Center. He is weak, slow, un-athletic, passive, and does not enter the paint. He does not rebound or defend on top of it. The guy is just an all-around bad basketball player and someone I find completely impossible to like. Fortunately, it’s time he begins to rot away on a team he fits in perfectly with-The Washington Wizards. I would bet the house without John Wall they would be the first team to go winless.

3. Kyle Korver

Man this guy sucks. What I hate most about Korver is the fact that when he enters the game, the entire offense runs through him. Since he is worthless is every other facet of the game outside of 3-Point Shooting, Chicago has to make sense of putting him in the game, so they do so by having their entire team focus on setting him screens and setting him open for his shot. I give KK credit-He does have a lightning quick shot. It’s frustrating though watching them try so hard to get him the ball for the 6 minute increments that he checks in, and how little ROI they receive from it. It’s actually pretty impressive if you think about how little he scores and you consider the fact that he is the focal point of the offense every second he is in the game. Having the likes of Deng, Boozer and Rose focus on how they can set up Kyle Korver for a shot is comical. It’s even more comical because he never seems to get open…. Or hit any shots.

2. Brooke Lopez

Lopez does not appear to be a bad guy. I’m actually guessing he is a really nice, likable guy. My hatred for him is 50% basketball related and 50% fantasy basketball related. I drafted Lopez in the second round of the fantasy hoops draft thinking I was getting a 20 point, 10 rebound, 1.5 block guy that would fill it up because he was 7 foot and on such a talentless team that he had no choice. Through 10 games I was starting to become curious as to how he was grabbing between 4-6 rebounds per game and how he was managing to turn the ball over 2 times a game. I mean, if your 7 feet tall, you have very few opportunities to turn the ball over since, you know, you’re supposed to be on the block the whole game. After a dozen games, I finally caught a Nets game to try and figure out what this guy’s problem was. I figured it out real quick-He just straight up does not appear to like or care about the game of basketball. I’ve NEVER seen a player so disinterested in every part of the game. Think about it, if you hang around the basket the entire game you can usually (Andrew) luck your way into 5 rebounds a game. That doesn’t factor in the fact that Lopez is 7 feet tall. I’ve never seen anything like it. He loves his midrange game (Anything to get him further away from the basket), despite having a nice arsenal of post moves and relatively good touch around the goal. Is he a good talent? Yes. If I’m the Nets, I’m shipping that guy off immediately while he’s young and before the rest of the idiot NBA GM’s realize you can’t win with a guy that doesn’t care about hoops.

1. Chris Bosh

Man I HATE this guy. It’s funny that I managed to walk away from The Decision completely disgusted by LeBron’s antics, but yet somehow found myself hating Chris Bosh for it. I didn’t know much about Bosh in Toronto outside of the fact that he was an elite rebounder and a guy that scored a lot of points. I also really liked his dreads. Thanks to him going to Miami, I’ve started to learn more and more about him and couldn’t be happier about it. Watching this guy to anything positive in any way makes my blood absolutely boil. I can’t tell you how excited I was when the camera was on LeBron after losing the Finals, and in in the background is Chris Bosh falling to his knees, crying like a child. If D. Wade would have fallen to the floor crying, I would have supported it. I have no problem with heart. Problem is that I’m convinced Bosh started crying because he was scared to death of how D. Wade was going to rip him for his soft, weak, gutless playoff performance. Over the course of the year Bosh admitted he was playing scared, wasn’t good at handling the big moment and that he was/is not the least cool of a guy (Seriously he said that). I’ll give Wade and LeBron this-They look good as headliners and know how to act the part despite not liking either of them. Bosh is PATHETIC at trying to look/act cool and I can’t get over that. Beyond all that, the guy is so bad defensively and at mixing it up that the Heat had to start Joel Anthony, one of the worst (If not the worst) basketball player in NBA history. I look forward to the Heat shipping him off and him going back to what he does best-Be a high scorer/rebounder on a bad team where he has no pressure to win. My nightmare would be hanging out with this guy.

Just missed the cut: Matt Barnes, Mo Williams, Vince Carter, Kevin Garnett.