The Basketball Section

When it comes to the NBA Draft, hindsight is 20-20. No matter how much scouting a team does, you can never tell for sure how good a college prospect will adapt to the NBA. With that in mind, some decisions have come back to bite certain teams in the ass. Whether it be drafting a bust right before taking an All-Star or trading away a bust for an All-Star, these decisions have gone on to haunt teams & fans for a long time. Here are 7 mistakes made on draft day. Drafting Al-Farouq Aminu over Gordon Hayward & Paul George (2010) Let's start with a simple one where a team selected an OK player over future all-stars. Coming off a poor 2009-10 season where they went 29-53, the Los Angeles Clippers got the #8 overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft and opted to select a small forward to replace Rasual Butler and pair up with Blake Griffen, who would be debuting next season after missing his entire rookie season due to injury. There were three viable options to choose from with the...

Every high draft pick in sports comes in with a lot of hype. Basketball is no exception. Players like LeBron James, Michael Jordan, and more recently the likes of Kyrie Irving and Karl-Anthony Towns, have been drafted and have all lived up to the big expectations set for them by fans & analysts. This year alone saw loads of hype built up for the #2 pick Lonzo Ball, even if a lot of that hype was built up by the human embodiment of the Cocoa Puffs bird that is his father. While it's impossible to tell if Ball Brother #1 lives up to those standards, it's not impossible that he won't, and if he doesn't, he wouldn't be the first. That being said, here are 5 players that didn't live up to their hype. Jimmer Fredette Jimmer Fredette was pretty much unstoppable in his last year at Brigham Young University. In his senior year, he led the nation in scoring with 28.9 points per game, helped BYU win over 30 games that year and led them to a #3 seed in the NCAA ...