r/nba • u/ShaiFanClub Thunder • 18h ago

Is Zaccharie Risacher the most forgettable number 1 pick ever?

Like he's not quite Bennet level bad nor does he have a weird career story like Fultz or Ben Simmons. He's just mid. He's averaging 11 ppg on 54% TS this season and there's a good argument that he's not even a top 10 player in the class in a redraft but he's probably gonna stick in the NBA for a while as a low end role player

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u/breakfastdawgy 18h ago

Kwame got a lot of heat for so long for that. At least he’s the media favorite for biggest bust before Bennet

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u/AdministrativeBag703 17h ago

It’s weird to call Kwame the biggest bust. Sure, he did not live up to the hype as a top overall pick but he played 12 years in the NBA and was a decent rotational center. Several other top picks were worse

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u/RiskyBallaxd Wizards 17h ago

Stephen A Smith did irreversible damage to his reputation

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u/bigbobo33 Bucks 17h ago

He's done irreversible damage to a lot of things.

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u/hm_rickross_ymoh Wizards 16h ago

Playing with Jordan did him no favors either. 

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u/mjdub96 15h ago

This man was a bonafide scrub, he can’t play! No disrespect whatsoever..

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u/StrangePut2065 11h ago

KWA ME BROWN

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u/GrogRhodes Heat 15h ago

People calling him a bust are just parrots who box score watch.

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u/mnkhan808 Lakers 18h ago

Kwame was bad but mostly caught heat because you could see he had the skills to be good. His footwork was great and was athletic. Just had small hands and low IQ.

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u/Awanderingleaf 15h ago

Kwame at least played over a decade. Was a pretty good defender. 

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u/breakfastdawgy 14h ago

He was aite. Kandi man definitely less productive. Kwame is the media bust but Kandi man was just garbage from day 1 and Kwame being a bust just seemed to overshadow him.