10 Biggest Ball Hogs In NBA History

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:Hypun
 

 
10 Biggest Ball Hogs In NBA History

 
10. Al Harrington Al Harrington has been all over the place in the NBA. He’s bounced around the NBA to 7 different teams, which include the Pacers, Hawks, Nuggets, Magic, Warriors, Wizards and Knicks. If you are bouncing around the league as much as Harrington, then you must be doing something wrong.
Don’t get me wrong, he has always possessed All-Star talent, but he chose to take bad shots his entire career. If Harrington was given the ball, there was a 90% chance he would shoot it himself and most likely miss.
 
9. Pete Maravich Despite Pete Maravich creating a Hall of Fame career, the guy just couldn’t seem to win. Pistol loved having the ball in his hands and would show off his skillful handling skills and passes during NBA games. The problem was that he just didn’t move the basketball enough, which ended up hurting his basketball team.
He averaged less then 5 assists per game and was known for frequently turning the ball over. He just couldn’t muster up the leadership ability to make his teammates around him better.

8. Allen Iverson
Allen Iverson shot 42 percent over the course of his career and only shot over 44 percent once in his Hall of Fame career. While Iverson had the quick thinking ability a great point guard should have, he just wasn’t a likable player to be on the court with.

Tim Thomas, Larry Hughes, and Jerry Stackhouse could have all contributed to Iverson’s game play but none of them wanted to play with the young Iverson as he just had the ball in his hands too much and it ended up being inefficient for the entire basketball team. When he lost his quickness, he resorted to jump shots in which he often missed.

 
7. Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Anthony’s ball hogging is much different from the rest. Melo has never been surrounded by an emerging second star, which has caused him to take control of the whole offense countless times.

When Melo gets the ball, you can pretty much forget about it because you know he’s going to try to make a play himself. It’s not Melo’s fault per say, I mean what else is the guy supposed to do?

 
6. Glenn Robinson
Glenn Robinson was an NBA champion in 2005 and earned the honors of being a 2-time NBA All-Star. Robinson was a scoring beast and would often take complete control of the offense as he only averaged about 3.6 assists per game.

 

Robinson’s game is the mid range jumper and was able to survive in the league for 10 seasons playing alongside players like Sam Cassell and Ray Allen but it wasn’t until he got to the Spurs that he was able to win an NBA championship.

5. Kobe Bryant
Don’t have much more to say on this one other than that Kobe Bryant is still one of the greatest players in NBA history despite hogging the ball for the majority of his career.

 
4. Steve Francis

When Steve Francis was in Houston, he practically ran the whole show that is until Stan Van Gundy and Yao Ming joined the show. In his fourth season with the Rockets, Stan had Francis run the offense through Ming, which did not make Francis too happy. He got himself traded to Orlando where things didn’t get too much better. Francis played like a shooting guard and just didn’t like to give up the basketball. He averaged 6 assists per game only because he played point guard for most of his career.

 
3. Gilbert Arenas
Despite being a bust in the long run, Gilbert made an immediate impact in the league at first. He was selected to his first NBA All-Star game in 2005 and guided the Wizards to their first 45-win season and its first playoff birth since 1997.
Arenas led the team in scoring with 25 PPG and finished 6th in the league in steals averaging 2.24 a game. He was known for his competitive and fierce play on the court and was even given the nickname “Agent Zero.”
 
2. Stephon Marbury
Stephon Marbury became the best point-guard that nobody wanted to take a chance on because of his ball-hogging attitude. If he was not the center of attention and the offense front then he would throw a fit. He left the Minnessota Timberwolves in jealousy of Garnett signing a bigger deal than he had.
 
1. Ricky Davis

When Ricky Davis was with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the beginning of his career, he was the go-to player. However, when he was forced to share the limelight with star players like LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, and Paul Pierce he wasn’t too happy about it. Davis was a very athletic player but his hunger to be the best player on the court caused him to make rash decisions and throw up crazy shots, which ultimately led to his down fall as a player in the NBA and by the age 30 he retired.

 

 

 

[Hurricane Season]

How the fuck was Gilbert Arenas a bust?  He was a second round pick that went through a 3 or 4 year stretch where he was an elite offensive force, and one of the best scorers in the league.  Dude averaged 20+ ppg for his career.

 

[buzzy]

And technically I don't think you can be called a bust as a secound round pick.

 

[Pugz]

When Steve Francis was in Houston, he practically ran the whole show that is until Stan Van Gundy and Yao Ming joined the show.

hmmm

 

[Pugz]

How the fuck was Gilbert Arenas a bust?  He was a second round pick that went through a 3 or 4 year stretch where he was an elite offensive force, and one of the best scorers in the league.  Dude averaged 20+ ppg for his career.

hes a bust because of his final contract. im assuming thats their reasoning

 

[elcheato]

This list has a lack of Corey Maggette 

 

[cruzg24]

4 Knicks in the top 10, thats how we represent!

 

[BwareDWare94]

This list has a lack of Corey Maggette 

 
Came in to say this. Maggette was one of the more worthless players in league history. So much talent, so little understanding of the game.