How A Single Possession Ruined Their NBA Careers Forever

Let's take a look at 3 NBA players who saw their careers get ruined after a single play. Enjoy the video!

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[SuperNASCARrocks]

Looking at you Ben Simmons. That single possession in the Atlanta Hawks playoff series encapsulates his career perfectly.

[napalmpudding]

Brandon Knight, dude never made a big mistake like bargani or JR Smith, but dude got cooked so often that nobody could take him seriously. Poor man

[senorpanda]

I 100% thought Denzel valentine would be in this video

[johnpineda]

Atleast for jr smith he won another title with the lakers

[bigbearkat]

I have to disagree with the whole "we didn't know it at the time" about Ben Simmons. When the game was over it felt like everybody knew he wouldn't play for 76ers again if only for his own safety.

[professortoketcg]

Seeing Ben Simmons crumble will always baffle me bro really was on his way

[necromora]

Nick Anderson had two confidence breaking possessions in a row in 95 missing 4 free throws in a row

[Jaymanwon]

My favorite part of the Bargnani clip is after he missed you can see J.R Smith put up his hands in frustration. EVEN J.R NEW NOT TO SHOOT THERE!!!

[youngchieffromth]

I watched Game 1 of the NBA finals live and mannnn I was SO pissed, but not at the fact of what JR did, but at the fact that, if GEORGE HILL didn’t brick BOTH of his crunch time free throws which led to JR grabbing the rebound, then JR Smith wouldn’t have been the scapegoat of anything from that night.

I was already screaming at George Hill from my couch before JR sold the game into overtime and was even more mad at the fact he didn’t receive as much backlash that JR did

[Balonious_Crunk]

When the money gets good, it destroys the game in a way - you have guys fooling the world with their supposed “talent” when in reality they’re just chasing after a bag via hype and good marketing. I’m willing to bet that the majority of the league isn’t even playing for the love of the game - just chasing the almighty dollar.

[DibbzTV]

Ben Simmons is forever a “bonafide scrub”

[TheMrMasterChief]

Ight man JR Smith spent 16 fucking years in the league...

[flibbidyx]

JR wasn't the only one to dribble out the clock in a key NBA Finals moment - Magic Johnson did it in game 2 of the 1984 Finals. The Lakers ended up losing in overtime, and even worse, they went on to lose the series with SEVERAL key mistakes from Magic at the heart of it. The main difference of course was that Magic was able to put those blunders behind him and lead the Lakers to winning 3 of the next 4 championships, so no one really talks about his miscues from that Finals series.

[Dontizzle]

Bargnani saying that while knowing rebounding is part of basketball is extremely wild lol

[dochudson]

You need to add Javaris and Gil's gun possessions ... totally ruined both careers and they didn't even their shots off 😅

[eatdawontonsoup]

Bargnani has this Italian leadership in WWII in him

[KoolerThanKen]

I thought this video was gonna mention Denzel Valentine, his career ending similarly to Bargnani with a bad shot losing their team the game. Hopefully he can find a place in the league again

[Kings]

Bruh, I have 2 cousins who are Sixers fans, and one of them told me that once the Sixers lost and Ben Simmons playing like dogshit the way he did, she literally felt like she wanted to stop watching basketball all together and I don't blame her one bit. The 76ers has the easiest path to the Conference Finals that year out of any playoff team, and for Ben Simmons to play terrible and costing his team multiple times, yeah I don't blame Phily fans for criticizing him. Now I did pick the Hawks to win that series for 2 reasons, I thought the Kawks had a chance to win the series because I was being delusional, and 2, I just really really the 76ers and their rude and terrible fanbase

[sneakerking]

I will forever love the jr smith one the amount of memes and just overall why would he do that still blows my mind lol

[sanpanf]

as bad as Simmons was that series, doc rivers threw Simmons under the bus to protect his own job, and the team was on a high because they were the first seed and they seemed to think moving foward keeping doc rivers around was better long term, only to fire him a year later bc he's one of the worst coaches ever atm.