NBA Duds: The Bottom Five

The NBA has some great talent: Gilbert Arenas, LeBron James, Tim Duncan.

But not every player that is given a large amount of potential utilizes it and creates a great career out of it.

Some even just take their pay check and then go and do their best to lose the game for their team.

Here, five players who just seem to take talent and toss it in the trash more than all others.

Kwame Brown

This guy makes you want to completely stop watching the NBA all together. I am not the only one that ended up huddled around the toilet after watching his performance in the 3rd quarter alone against the Phoenix Suns. He had 7 TURNOVERS in that game.  That's too much for a 4 game span let alone just 1 game.

And he was even the top player who "gets the least out of the most talent," as voted by his peers in the latest Sports Illustrated.

To make his mediocrity even more astounding, he was the #1 pick in the 2001 draft.  I guarantee the Lakers are kicking themselves in the behind after trading eventual All-Star Caron Butler for what I can only call...THIS?

We expected more from a guy that makes 9 million dollars a year. 

Eddy Curry

Eddy Curry is at the center of a team that could possibly be the most underachieving team in NBA history: How could he not be on this list? 

He shows up at every game that the Knicks play. Not mentally, no, but he's at least there to hear the boo's night in and night out.

He doesn't do much else. He was supposed to become a star in this league. Some Bulls fans were even mad when he was traded because they saw the potential that he had.

They are now ecstatic that they made the right move. Curry shows that he has no love for the game.

He starts as a center and averages just 5.4 rebounds per game in his career, much of which he has been a starter.  And after this year it's probably going to get even lower as he is averaging 5.2 rpg this season.

Kobe Bryant, the ultimate let-me-get-my-points-and-leave player, has more rebounds this season than he does. 

Darko Milicic

Five years ago, he burst onto the scene for the Detroit Pistons, a young gun from Serbia and Montenegro who was ready to take America by storm.

He had a great career in Yugoslovia as a member of their top team at the young age of 16.  How could he not come in and dominate as a member of the NBA?

Then we watched him come in and just be mediocre. He can really scare you with his play. No surprise he is on a team that has just 10 collective wins.

Tim Thomas

Sure, he averages a serviceable number of points some games. But he is a forward who has never averaged more than five rebounds per game in any of his 10 seasons.

You would think that he would be able to jump up there and grab at a 5.1 a game clip at least once. Point gaurds get involved in rebounding more than Tim Thomas does. It just shows how little he cares about the game.

Miami Heat

I know that they aren't a particular player.  But how can a team that has Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade, a team that won an NBA Championship just two years ago, a team that hasn't really changed a lot, be the worst team in the NBA?

When they lost to Minnesota, the world got a look at what people in Miami had been enduring for the last few months. The Miami Heat are awful, and they have no reason to be.

And that's worse than any one player can do.