Thanks for Nothing
Another Classic Kwame article from Michael Wilbon, written the week Kwame was traded to the Lakers for he who should be an All Star - Caron Butler.
So Long, Kwame, Thanks for Nothing
By Michael Wilbon
Saturday, July 16, 2005; Page E01
Highlites:
- The saddest thing of all is that Kwame Brown appears to be as clueless today as the day he arrived. It was okay to be a fool at 18, fresh out of high school; the great majority of us were. But he’s 23 now and a full-fledged bust whose tough talk on the way out of here makes it so much easier to wave bye-bye without feeling a bit of remorse.
- But there’s just as much evidence that suggests Kwame Brown will go to the Lakers and be the slacker he was here, the kid who overslept practices or only halfway practiced when he did show, and always found somebody to blame but himself. Oh yes, he’s a bust.
- The word “bust” doesn’t even begin to adequately describe what a stunning disappointment Brown has been.
- Reasonable progress toward competence would have made him palatable, but he wasn’t capable even of that. Instead, what he became was a quitter who had to be suspended in the playoffs.
- Brown said he’ll only worry about how he plays and how he is judged from this point on. Seems those four years were as worthless to him as they were to the team and to all of us forced to watch his sorry, halfhearted attempt at growing up. Good riddance.
