The Basketball Section

It takes a lot to get banned from a professional sports league. Some of the more famous examples come from sports like baseball, with players like Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson being banned for gambling on games and for involvement in the Black Sox scandal, respectively. However, since this is a basketball blog (it even says so in the name), I'm going to be looking at eight people who have been banned from the NBA over the years. Some got reinstated, some were never welcomed back in the league, but at one point, all of these people were dismissed from the NBA. Exempt from this list is disgraced referee Tim Donaghy because apparently, despite betting on games, he is not actually banned from the NBA, though I doubt he'll be welcomed back with open arms anytime soon. But with that out of the way, here are 8 people who got banned from the NBA. OJ Mayo Starting with the most recent player to be banned from the NBA, a lot of hype surrounded OJ Mayo as he made...

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 ...