The Official "Whatever happened to....?" Thread

[JS22]

First off I'll start out with some players that make you say to yourself: "hey, whatever happened to them?"

Charlie Bell (All-American at Michigan State, right?)
Gheorghe Muresan (Never retired, just dissapeared)
Leon Smith (HS prospect that wasnt drafted last year)
Korlean Young (same as smith)
Paul Mcpherson (was traded by phoenix, but has some solid skills)
Dino Radja (????)
Harold Minor (Labeled as the next Jordan)
Todd Day (Was always a very solid player. EXCELLENT college player. I still wish phoenix kept him.)
God Shamgod (Excellent player at Notre Dame)
Marc Macon (??? I remember "giving him a chance" in nba live 99!)
Ed O'Bannon (Great college player)
Charles O'Bannon (same as Ed)
Priest Lauderdale (7'4" 385 pounds. Never given a shot. I even used him once in my sig)
DeJuan Wheat (???)


And here are CURRENT players in which we may be saying "what ever happened to..?" Some of these are probably outrageous. (OK, MOST) But hell, its for the sake of discussion.

Eddie Griffin
Joseph Forte
Mengke Bateer
Earl Boykins
Tayshaun Prince
Chris Wilcox
Jake Tsakalidis
Stromile Swift
Lamar Odom
Jared Jefferies
Grant Hill

 

[slinslin]

Chris Wilcox was only a rookie and had his moments every once in a while.

Stromile Swift had a pretty good season. 01-02 he wasn't bad either for a 2nd year PF. He will be in the league for a long time.


Leon Smith played some sort of minor league basketball this season preparing to get another invitation to a training camp this year. He could still make it in the NBA.
He wasn't drafted last year.

Paul McPherson is playing with the Globe Trotters I think.

Dino Radja returned to Europe a long time ago because he didn't really like the NBA lifestyle I think.

Charlie Bell is playing for Benetton Treviso I think.

I'm pretty sure O'Bannon is also playing somewhere in Europe

 

[schutd]

And God Shamgod (when translated means God GodGod) played for Providence, not Notre Dame. I remember cause they almost beat the U of A in 97, our championship year.

 

[JS22]

oh yeah, thanks for clearing that up. I had a lapse.

 

[NDSunsfan]

DuJuan Wheat played in the Midwestern Basketball Association for the Buffalo City Thunder (Jamestown, ND). The MBA is a hybrid of the old IBA. They started the year as the XBA and then folded/switched names and ended as the MBA. There was a team in Fort Dodge, Iowa that Richard Dumas played for at the beginning of the year, but their team folded midway through the season.

Wheat was a stud in this league. Small, though, couldn't have been 6' and 175 lbs. but was easily the quickest player on the floor, seemed to have a good jumpshot, but never really pushed anything on offense. Obviously, in a league like the MBA, he was a stud.


Brad

 

[fordronken]

Forte was already in the Seattle doghouse, but now...

http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2003/0513/1552972.html

 

[Billythekid]

Richard D was awesome. He was my favourite player back in 93.

Pity, so much talent and all he had to show for it was 93 and an overweight out-a-shape return in 95 for Pho and Philly.

I remember he was compared to Dr J by I think Magic Johnson. I have a game on tape v Atlanta where he just goes off. 32 pts. And remember that game when Shaq tore the ring down in Phoenix, he scored 31 that night. And KJ dunked on Tom Tolberts Head

I caught a globetrotters game last year and Cedric Ceballos was playing.

Whats happened to Chris Porter? he was destined for the lottery but chose to return to finish college. Alot of good getting an education did.