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Potentially great careers cut short by some circumstances such as injury, personal choices, or just any other issues beyond their control?

Mine would be

1. Grant Hill

2. Penny Hardaway

3. Len Bias

4. Michael Ray Richardson

5. Oscar Schmidt

Honerable Mentions: Roger Brown, Arvydas Sabonis, Ben Wilson

Most basketball fans have an all time team of greatest players, an all time team of players without a championship, all decade teams, and all time teams for franchises. But you don't often hear about all time teams of the most forgotten players.

My all-time underrated team

PG: Michael Ray Richardson: Drug problem ruined the career of a shorter Magic Johnson

SG: George Gervin: Led the NBA in scoring 3 years in a row, scored 33 points in a quarter before the NBA adopted the 3 point line and was capable of making shots from that distance

SF: Alex English: highest scorer of the 1980s, the NBAs best decade

PF: Terry Cummings: before the knee injury, was a 20-10 player and made many all-star games

C: Bob Lanier: One of the best players of the 1980s but fell under the radar of Kareem, Moses Malone, and Robert Parish

Scottie Pippen said today that he was LeBron before LeBron. I saw them both play and I want whatever he was drinking that made him say that.

To me, the closest players to LeBron in terms of size, athleticism, and skillset were Grant Hill when he was healthy and George McGinnis when he was in the ABA (look it up on YouTube).

Can anyone else think of anymore or have I nailed down the only 2?

I'm not a LeBron fan but I thought it was interesting Scottie Pippen would say that.

We always hear questions about the best players to never win one and the best teams of all time, but who are some of the best teams that didn't end up winning it all?

They kissed their national championship hopes goodbye last night when they got murdered by South Carolina. Since Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall are only freshmen, do you think that UGA has a chance at it within the next couple of years assuming these 2, especially Gurley, don't get hurt? God I hope they don't, Todd Gurley could do great things in the next few years. He's pretty damn good regardless of what he did, or didn't do, for that matter, in the South Carolina game.

My girlfriend are going to Carowinds next week and I want to know if there are any good Barbecue restaurants nearby that also has fish on the menu. My girlfriend is on a fish only diet, but I decided there is no way I go to North Carolina and South Carolina and not get Carolina Barbecue so I'm trying to find a place that would be good for both of us. I haven't been outside of the airport in the Carolinas yet so I have no idea what is around there.

How the hell did Miami get a reset on a jump ball. I know on a foul it's reset to 14 but since when do they reset on a jump ball? Makes no sense. Should've been a 24 second violation and OKC could've taken a 2 for the lead instead of rushing a 3 to tie.

The team with Kobe Bryant's 2 biggest individual rivals, LeBron James and Dwayne Wade, or the Thunder, the team that eliminated them in the 2nd round?

This game (series) is in the refrigerator, the door is closed, the lights are out, the eggs are coolin, the butter's gettin hard, the jello is jigglin!

If you consider yourself a Lakers fan and you don't understand that saying and thought it's a dumb expression or don't even know who said it, which wouldn't surprise me, PLEASE DENOUNCE yourself as a Lakers fan NOW. Any REAL Lakers fan would cuss you out for it.

I can't help it but I have to rub it in since SO MANY of you are such assholes talking a bunch of stupid **** from October to May. I have to know how it feels.

The Lakers traded Derek Fisher away before the trade deadline and he ended up on the team that beat the Lakers in the playoffs and now has the chance to catch Jordan before Kobe does in Championships because of the trade.

Also, if LeBron stays in the East for the rest of his career and Houston makes it back to the Finals before he retires and they beat LeBron's team in the Finals, he'd be the only player in NBA history to lose the Texas Triangle in the Finals.

Who else has thought of both facts and what do y'all think about them? LeBron has a long career ahead of him and the Thunder can win it all this year for both of those things to possibly happen.

I'm moving from California to Indiana next week and I was wondering if there was still snow and ice on the ground in that part of the state. I know it's in the Rockies, have been through there once, but it was in the summer. I hate the thought of going that way but it's probably the fastest way for me to go. Since I've lived in Sacramento my whole life, I'm a bit scared of driving on icy mountain roads since I've only driven with snow on the ground 3 times in my life.

I think one of the things killing the country the most is the 2 party system. People just vote along party lines for the most part, regardless of that politician's view on the issues. They also agree with every single bill originated by someone from the party they tend to vote for.

Will it ever be possible to start depending more on Independents and shift away from this Republican and Democrat horseshit that we've been putting up with for so many years already?

I live on the West Coast, California, to be specific, but I cannot eat vegetables in that part of the country. However, I can always eat them whenever I am in the Midwest and especially in the South. I don't know what it is, but they do them so much differently in the Midwest and the South than they do on the West Coast. Is it just that I've got a Southern and Midwestern bias toward food or is food on the West Coast just as terrible as I think it is?

I live in Sacramento and I saw on her website that she is going to be in Oregon next month. I know that Oregon is one state away from me but the California-Oregon line is about 400 miles from where I live and then I'd have to go another 250 into Oregon after I cross over so I can't really do that. She is my favorite female country singer and 2nd favorite overall and I'd really like to see her live sometime.

I know that Calculus is a class many Econ majors take. Modern Business Math is also known as Business Calculus, just called Modern Business Math in my school's catalog. I want to go into business so I thought Calculus with economics and business concepts discussed throughout would probably be better for me than a regular calculus class. It is easier for me to grasp a subject like that when it is tied to business since I'm interested in it.

I live in California, we have had SEVERE budget cuts, so Business programs all over that state have been labeled as impacted, and it is very hard to get business courses. I want to graduate as fast as possible because I'm 2 years behind because of past health problems and I DESPERATELY need to get out of California.

I wanted to know if that would be recommended, I want to eventually go for my MBA.

I just had fried green tomatoes yesterday for the 1st time and I want to start doing them myself. I want to know if I have to get them from the tomato garden or if I could buy them at a grocery store.

I live in California by the way, so I know that decreases the chances, but can you at most stores?

I currently have a 2.4 overall GPA. I know that it is not considered good for everyone, but I have had severe brain damage from a year of 5 seizures a day and I had part of my brain removed to stop them. That damage has really inhibited me from doing what I once could. Now considering I'm on 90% of a brain, is the 2.4 good?

I'm worried that it will keep me from getting into the marketing program after I pass the pre-major lower division courses.

Is it just me or does it look like they have the camera a lot farther away than they usually do. I watch it and feel like I have a nose-bleed seat right now.

I am majoring in business so both classes are required before I can take upper division business courses. I have already Taken Macro and passed. I will be taking Micro next semester. I was wondering which one is easier so I know what to expect as far as difficulty. Based on your experiences, which one was easier for you when you took them?

I am transferring to CSU Sacramento next semester and I still have one more semester to decide on my concentration. I've been thinking about accounting but recently I thought I'd like to do consulting of some sort. They have a program that combines Accounting and Management Information Systems which I have been looking into recently. Should I do just accounting and get more classes in that or combine and go half accounting and half MIS?

From experience, which looks better to employers?

Thank you for your advice