With all of this talk of about Malone, I thought it would be fun to discuss which:
Players we hated most BEFORE they played for the Suns.
Players we hated most AFTER they left the Suns.
Players we still loved most AFTER playing for a different team.
Top 5 players we hated most BEFORE they played for the Suns:
1. Mario Elie
2. Danny Ainge
3. McDyess
4. ?
5. ?
(I struggled with this one. I think I want to put Barkley on this list because he was hated so much for spitting on a little girl right before the Suns traded for him.)
Top 5 players we hated most AFTER they left the Suns:
1. McDyess
2. Kidd
3. Horry
4. Barkley (for the first couple of years it was a bitter pill to swallow)
5. Richard Dumas
Top 10 players we still loved AFTER playing for a different team (I didn’t know where to stop with this list):
1. Majerle
2. Horney
3. Ced
4. Dennis Johnson
5. Westphal
6. Nash
7. Walter Davis
8. Michael Finley
9. Connie Hawkins
10. Larry Nance
11. Outlaw
12. Elliot “sox” Perry
13. Joe Klein
14. Mark West
15. Tom Chambers
16. Danny Manning
For list #2 no one is even close to Kidd. The things he said about the suns and phx, and specifically the stuff he said after the nets beat phx the first time they played, I can never stop hating him. Watching him lose in back to back finals was beautiful.
For list #2 no one is even close to Kidd. The things he said about the suns and phx, and specifically the stuff he said after the nets beat phx the first time they played, I can never stop hating him. Watching him lose in back to back finals was beautiful.
Ditto on that one hsandhu. I've had my problems with McDyess, Sam Cassell, and Charles Barkley after they left, but I absolutely loathed Jason Kidd.
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1: Jason Kidd
2: Jason Kidd
3: Jason Kidd
4: Jason Kidd
5: Jason Kidd
5a: Joumana Kidd
5b: TJ. Kidd
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I thought about AC. He was a good guy. I just don't know if anyone cared.
As for Marbury, I chose not to put him on the list because I felt that he really wasn't with the team long enough create an attachment with the fans. And part of that is because the team just wasn't that good.
As for the "jbeecham's" new list involving players we hated while they were with the Suns? I don't know. "Hate" seems kind of harsh. All of those guys were put in a tough situation with injuries and depth charts and extremely high expectations. I think they're more tragic characters than anything. Yeah, how about a tragic list.
Most tragic Suns players of all time:
1. Danny Manning (knee problems)
2. Googs (knee problems)
3. Penny (knee problems)
(so sad that three allstars in a row went down with essentially career ending knee injuries. No team in the history of the NBA has ever had to endure that much bad luck)
4. Dumas (drug problems)
5. Rex Chapman (wrist injury)
6. Randy Livingston (caused injuries to other players)
7. KJ (my favorite player who struggled with pulled hamstrings and groin pulls for the last few years of his career)
8. Hot Rod Williams (back problems)
9. (wasn't there a player who died in a plane crash)
10. Jarod Mustaff (wasn't he involved in a murder with a cousin or something?)
Who can add some more to the ALL TRAGIC SUNS TEAM?
BTW I didn't do any list in any particular order. But yeah, I would put Kidd at the top.
Last edited by se7en; November 23rd, 2004 at 09:32 PM.
Steve Nash Eddie Johnson
Van Arsedales
Joe Proskey
Marco Milic (sp)
for #2
Sam Cassell
Robert Horry
Jason Kidd
Kevin Johnson
Rodney Rodgers
and newly added Stephen Jackson
For #1
Danny Sheas (sp)
Charles Barkley
Rex Chapman Tom Chambers
Tim Kempton
You hated KJ, Rodney Rogers and Stephen Jackson? I don't understand? That's crazy. Who on earth and why would hate KJ of all people.
As for your list #1, why did you hate those players before they came to the Suns? I'm just curious since I have very little recollection of those players before they became Suns with the exception of Barkley. I didn't know anything about Chapman, Shayes or Kempton before the Suns at all.
1. Danny Manning (knee problems)
2. Googs (knee problems)
3. Penny (knee problems)
(so sad that three allstars in a row went down with essentially career ending knee injuries. No team in the history of the NBA has ever had to endure that much bad luck)
4. Dumas (drug problems)
5. Rex Chapman (wrist injury)
6. Randy Livingston (caused injuries to other players)
7. KJ (my favorite player who struggled with pulled hamstrings and groin pulls for the last few years of his career)
8. Hot Rod Williams (back problems)
9. (wasn't there a player who died in a plane crash)
10. Jarod Mustaff (wasn't he involved in a murder with a cousin or something?)
9. Nick Vanos - the guy killed in a plane crash (I think)
I'm trying to remember the deal with Sam Cassell. What did he do?
I think people were just afraid he was here as a part of some alien reconnaissance mission before the actual invasion.
Remember the miniseries, "V"? He didn't even try to look like a human.
Joe Mama
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