Most Overrated player in sports history?

• sleeper

  

  Can it be anyone other than Allen Iverson?
  
  The guy is trash and chucks more than Kobe. He couldn't even stay in the league past 30 or so because he didn't want to ride the bench on the Bobcats.
• sleeper

  

  Plus he ruined basketball for everyone else. All these cats you see running around the gym try to be like AI; chuck a bunch of shots up that go in 1/50 times, never pass the ball, and never play defense.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  I think he was older than 30 when he last played.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Terry Bradshaw and Joe Namath come to mind for me.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  The Boz
• sleeper

  

  bigdaddy2003;1212906 wrote:I think he was older than 30 when he last played.

  Good point. He's still trash.
• Hb31187

  

  Lmao you're still at this eh? smh
• Ironman92

  

  I'll go Joe Namath for sure.
  
  Ocho Cinco
• BR1986FB

  Commander of Awesome;1212911 wrote:Terry Bradshaw and Joe Namath come to mind for me.

  Good call on this. Both were mediocre QB's who made the HOF due to their rings.
• sleeper

  

  Hb31187;1212919 wrote:Lmao you're still at this eh? smh

  42.5% FG shooter. One season he shot 38% from the field. 31% 3-point shooter.
  
  The guy is a chucker and pure trash. Never won a championship, never played defense. Overrated garbage.
• sleeper

  

  The guy average 25 shots per game. What a joke. LOL
• like_that

  

  Commander of Awesome;1212911 wrote:Terry Bradshaw and Joe Namath come to mind for me.

  +1
• Hb31187

  

  sleeper;1212939 wrote:42.5% FG shooter. One season he shot 38% from the field. 31% 3-point shooter.
  
  The guy is a chucker and pure trash. Never won a championship, never played defense. Overrated garbage.

  You have to be a good 3pt shooter to be a great player? News to me.
  
  He was a good off ball defender and singled handedly carried that 76ers team to the NBA finals.
  
  11x All star
  League MVP
  4x Scoring champion
  3x steals leader(he doesnt play defense though)
  3x 1st team all nba
  3x 2nd team all nba
  Rookie of the year
  
  
  Damn hes overrated :/
• gorocks99

  

  Troy Aikman comes to mind.
  
  61.5% completion
  165 TD
  141 INT
  32,942 yards
  
  Average season for Aikman was 2,745 yards, 14 TD, 12 INT. He succeeded because the amount of talent around him was ridiculous.
• sleeper

  

  Hb31187;1212956 wrote:You have to be a good 3pt shooter to be a great player? News to me.
  
  He was a good off ball defender and singled handedly carried that 76ers team to the NBA finals.
  
  11x All star
  League MVP
  4x Scoring champion
  3x steals leader(he doesnt play defense though)
  3x 1st team all nba
  3x 2nd team all nba
  Rookie of the year
  
  
  Damn hes overrated :/

  Thanks for posting his fraud trophies. Isn't that by definition overrated? In that he was rated highly but his results were piss poor in reality. You don't have to be a great 3-point shooter to be a great player, but 42.5% and 25 shots a game is an absolute joke.
• Hb31187

  

  sleeper;1212941 wrote:The guy average 25 shots per game. What a joke. LOL

  No he didnt lol
• Hb31187

  

  sleeper;1212958 wrote:Thanks for posting his fraud trophies. Isn't that by definition overrated? In that he was rated highly but his results were piss poor in reality. You don't have to be a great 3-point shooter to be a great player, but 42.5% and 25 shots a game is an absolute joke.

  Lol Idk why I even bother responding to you sometimes. You just get bored and troll to bait people in and I fell for it. Oh well
• sleeper

  

  Hb31187;1212962 wrote:No he didnt lol

  21.7 is pretty close to 25. He's trash.
• sleeper

  

  Hb31187;1212966 wrote:Lol Idk why I even bother responding to you sometimes. You just get bored and troll to bait people in and I fell for it. Oh well

  I think you are more upset that your favorite player never won a championship and chucked his way to stardom.
• Hb31187

  

  sleeper;1212968 wrote:I think you are more upset that your favorite player never won a championship and chucked his way to stardom.

  Precisely
• BR1986FB

  gorocks99;1212957 wrote:Troy Aikman comes to mind.
  
  61.5% completion
  165 TD
  141 INT
  32,942 yards
  
  Average season for Aikman was 2,745 yards, 14 TD, 12 INT. He succeeded because the amount of talent around him was ridiculous.

  Another good one.
  
  Although not one of the "great" QB's of all time, Bernie Kosar is pretty overrated in the eyes of many Browns fans.
• dlazz

  Eli Manning deserves an honorable mention.
• Hb31187

  

  Lynn Swann
• sleeper

  

  Hard to label Greg Oden. He's definitely a bust, but you have to wonder the "what if" he didn't get hurt. As such, I reject your opinion.
• BR1986FB

  sleeper;1213008 wrote:Hard to label Greg Oden. He's definitely a bust, but you have to wonder the "what if" he didn't get hurt. As such, I reject your opinion.

  Yeah, in order to be "overrated", I'd think there would be an implication by some, or many, that the player was actually good or great. Oden & Leaf were neither. Now they might have been "overhyped" coming into the league.