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  • @swishcountyproductions
    @swishcountyproductions  2 місяці тому +22

    Subscribe while you're here plz:)

  • @gerryfegan3608
    @gerryfegan3608 2 місяці тому +196

    Just glad the first guy was able to get over the drugs and get his life together. I was addicted to heroin from the age of 16 to about 22.I'm twenty eight now and i've been six years sober from heroin

  • @jpmnky
    @jpmnky 2 місяці тому +92

    In 2001 ESPN made a documentary on the turmoil of the 1986 draft. Been looking for it the last 23 years.

    • @logosfocus
      @logosfocus 2 місяці тому +7

      twas all but a dream

    • @EduQueirozRocha
      @EduQueirozRocha 2 місяці тому +9

      And I'm still looking for Drazen Petrovic's documentary to this day.

    • @elijahbruno2814
      @elijahbruno2814 2 місяці тому +6

      ​@@EduQueirozRochathe 30 for 30 about him and Vlade Divac was really good. Once Brothers it's called I believe

    • @jpmnky
      @jpmnky 2 місяці тому

      @@elijahbruno2814- That was one of the best 30 for 30 docs. And stood out among all those awesome documentaries of those first couple seasons. It was his documentary, Divac’s. And he was still heartbroken 20 years after losing Drazen’s friendship. Once Brothers.

    • @jpmnky
      @jpmnky 2 місяці тому +6

      @@logosfocusLOL. Nah. It was real. I watched it the night it aired and haven’t been able to find it anywhere at all. And the fact it was 23 years ago is insane.

  • @patrickhook4424
    @patrickhook4424 2 місяці тому +13

    I went to Chris Herrens basketball camp, the guy is a legend. At the end of the camp on Friday, he took a microphone and made a speech about life, and then walked to half court and made a half court shot, first try. The whole gym went nuts as we all watched from the stands.

    • @allen35315
      @allen35315 22 дні тому +2

      My one regret as a basketball fan in Boston; Never got a chance to see Herron play in high school. One game I attempted to get into was sold out. That’s the kind of draw he was.

  • @GRUBB-MUDD
    @GRUBB-MUDD 2 місяці тому +29

    I used to be an addict, so hard to quit

    • @JayLandon64
      @JayLandon64 Місяць тому +2

      Technically, once an addict, always an addict. Just depends on if you are recovering or using.

  • @rickyspanish3821
    @rickyspanish3821 2 місяці тому +44

    The 1986 NBA Draft was is in shambles from 1 drug...
    RIP Len Bias...
    ☘️🙏🏽

    • @MrReymoclif714
      @MrReymoclif714 21 день тому +1

      That was a DARK DARK MOMENT for everyone who watched!!! He took a big hit of crack and his heart was broken.

  • @russellst.martin4255
    @russellst.martin4255 2 місяці тому +24

    Dumas was one of my favorite players as a kid. 16 and 5 on over 50% as a rookie on a Finals team....all while under the influence.

    • @CJEstradaMartinez
      @CJEstradaMartinez 10 днів тому

      Suns owner Jerry Colangelo was strongly against drafting Richard Dumas, saying “I have seen these kind of players before.”

  • @borganfreeman
    @borganfreeman 2 місяці тому +137

    Yinka Dare is the biggest bust ever IMO. Nobody talks about him but he was a disaster for the Nets. They gave him a 6 year deal out the gate and he gave them absolutely nothing on the court whatsoever. He got hurt in 3 minutes tore his ACL and it was over. They thought he was going be the Nigerian version of Shaq. Not even close. He died of a heart attack at like 30 or something. It's interesting that hardly nobody covers his story. He was hyped up coming out of college too but vanished after the NBA. There was no news on him until he died.

    • @shazaalala28
      @shazaalala28 2 місяці тому +32

      dare was drafted 14th overall. rarely do you see 14 overall picks become hailed as hall of famers pre-draft, so it’s not like he’s as big as a bust as a number 1 pick like oden or bennett.

    • @borganfreeman
      @borganfreeman 2 місяці тому +23

      @@shazaalala28 you got to be old enough to remember that he fell in the draft and was projected to go top 3. Go rewatch the draft and look up pre draft predictions. He was looked at as a steal in the draft. Nobody thought he would go outside of the top 5 especially after that NCAA run. He carried George Washington to the sweet 16 and was hyped up big time going into the draft. He was the next pick after Jalen Rose. If Jalen Rose flopped he would be labeled as a bust even at number 13. He was a project but he had hype that's why he went that high. 14 isn't necessarily a low pick

    • @kylenickelberry1602
      @kylenickelberry1602 2 місяці тому +24

      ​@borganfreeman Yinka Dare is a draft bust, but only because he just wasn't good. I was 29 in 1994 so let's kill the too young noise. Any talk about being a top 5 pick was draft scuttlebutt. Nobody's taking Dare over Robinson, Kidd, Hill, or even Eric Montross (who was a way more polished big man) so let's stop trying to rewrite history.

    • @bjray9778
      @bjray9778 2 місяці тому +5

      I mean that says more about the nets if they giving a 6 year deal to the 14th pick like he was a generational prospect 😂

    • @shazaalala28
      @shazaalala28 2 місяці тому +4

      @@borganfreeman ok, but if 13 teams decide that would pick random players over a predicted top 3, then is he really a top 3 pick? maybe according to draft boards, but that isn’t reflective of the view of actual gms. he isn’t a bigger bust than an actual top 3 pick.

  • @Bigedub101
    @Bigedub101 2 місяці тому +16

    Giving ur child beer at 5 is diabolical

  • @CarmenBelcher
    @CarmenBelcher 22 дні тому +3

    The fact that there are sooooo many more stories about nba drug addicts makes this even sadder.

  • @dokuson1017
    @dokuson1017 2 місяці тому +67

    “Nobody busted harder in the NBA than Chris Washburn “ AYO

  • @Iwasherelol14
    @Iwasherelol14 2 місяці тому +24

    Chris Herren has been to everyone’s high school at this point

  • @chrislewis5069
    @chrislewis5069 2 місяці тому +8

    Not a far cry from being an nba star. Getting clean sober and living in recovery is more courageous than most people can truly understand if done the way the 12 steps teaches. You're changing your thinking and actions, every way you've thought and acted up to that point. You're working to clean up your past and make amends to people harmed. You're taking daily inventory of your actions and looking where you can be of service to others. You're focusing on what you can control and not what others are doing. I've done it and it's far more courageous than being a nba star. It's different at the very least and Chris Washburn is a courageous man to be able to recover.

  • @mathewomolo
    @mathewomolo 2 місяці тому +24

    The tragedy of hard drugs. Especially with people whose lives had a golden path laid out for them is even sadder fr. Seek therapy guys.

  • @MarkCzmic420
    @MarkCzmic420 2 місяці тому +9

    Washburn is a sad story. Every rookie coming in should know about. Roy Tarpley also

    • @Bigedub101
      @Bigedub101 2 місяці тому

      Crazy thing I know people who went to school to Washburn and said he was good but he actually was seen on the streets of North Carolina. They had to force him to get up got games like he worked a crappy part time job

  • @adamberndt4190
    @adamberndt4190 2 місяці тому +15

    0:10 I don't think it's "Stealing" if you take food from the trash. Your labeling him a thief for NOT stealing? Smfh watch those accusations, they hurt people.

    • @matthewrodriguez3297
      @matthewrodriguez3297 2 місяці тому +5

      My thought exactly

    • @jbthestoner5504
      @jbthestoner5504 11 днів тому

      Technically once it ends up in a dumpster it's property of the trash collection company. So in theory it is stealing, but I don't think the garbage man cares.

  • @barbaranewton8732
    @barbaranewton8732 2 місяці тому +6

    I don't know how these guys could even play. You can't stop smoking crack once you light up your first hit until money runs out. Crashing on this drug is the pits mentally.

  • @BlackSheepbro0307
    @BlackSheepbro0307 2 місяці тому +18

    0:30 Can we stop saying Sam Bowie was a bust. His career longer than Washburn and Bennett put together. He just underperformed during his career but he got injured.

    • @SpicyLoaf-uw1hp
      @SpicyLoaf-uw1hp 2 місяці тому

      thats what a bust is, someone who didnt pan out how they couldve

    • @yusefinc1096
      @yusefinc1096 Місяць тому

      Sam Bowie is a bust. Unfortunately he had bad legs. Bowie unfortunately was drafted #2 between future champions and HOFers Olajuwon and the GOAT Jordan.

  • @janboblarry
    @janboblarry 2 місяці тому +4

    Glad Washburn turned his life around. Want to look up that interview he was doing now.

  • @j-mac7401
    @j-mac7401 Місяць тому +3

    Another player that comes to mind and had all the right tools to easily be a multi year All-Star :Roy Tarpley. Tarpley was a stud on the court but after many 2nd chances - the NBA let him go. He couldn't leave the street life that ultimately ended is life.

    • @CJEstradaMartinez
      @CJEstradaMartinez 10 днів тому

      It was shocking to learn that Roy Tarpley had passed away after squandering many chances.

  • @GARBO96
    @GARBO96 2 місяці тому +12

    So when people say Jordan was playing coke heads they are not exaggerating

    • @coomsicle
      @coomsicle 2 місяці тому +10

      jordan himself said he went into a hotel room at the hotel his team was staying and the whole team
      was there doing blow and smoking weed and drinking with groupies, when jordan was a rookie. the 80s was a big coke era, every rich aspect of society was into it.

  • @CHSN-1
    @CHSN-1 2 місяці тому +7

    The 85' draft class was one of the worst ever? Its actually ranks as one of the best draft classes ever lol. Karl Malone, Charles Oakley, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin, Joe Dumars etc to name a few. 5 Hall of Famers with 3 guys that played on the Dream Team. I thought this was common knowledge lol? The 84-85 draft classes were amazing

  • @thebestcentaur
    @thebestcentaur 2 місяці тому +5

    I'm just glad Haywood made the HoF at the end. Could have had a far better career, but ABA Rookie of the Year and MVP in your first season, multiple-time All-Star, AND an NBA title?! Yeah, dude was going into Springfield sooner or later

  • @ThatBoyPause
    @ThatBoyPause 22 дні тому +2

    “No one busted harder” is crazy

  • @michaelsteding7720
    @michaelsteding7720 2 місяці тому +8

    It's like Rick James said. Cocaine, it's a hell of a drug.

  • @Rinaldiii
    @Rinaldiii 2 місяці тому +4

    You know you got a little bit of money when you can file for bankruptcy 😂😂😂

  • @Kobe-jz2zz
    @Kobe-jz2zz 2 місяці тому +6

    Drinking a 6 pack before every game ?
    Wtf...

  • @bigd5092
    @bigd5092 2 місяці тому +3

    Chris was my neighbor when he got drafted..... still see him daily....

    • @Bigedub101
      @Bigedub101 2 місяці тому

      I knew someone who he knew him too and during his dark days

  • @miguelitoasuncion1948
    @miguelitoasuncion1948 2 місяці тому +6

    Drugs are definitely a problem when you got money, but a broke person can’t do nothing At all. Go figure

    • @mrsikes410
      @mrsikes410 Місяць тому +1

      Oh how little u know

  • @divinedelaware7541
    @divinedelaware7541 2 місяці тому +3

    Never even heard of that Swift kid. He must have gotten no burn. Straight outta highschool too. Where, When?? How he's well

    • @Bigedub101
      @Bigedub101 2 місяці тому +1

      I remember him from playing NBA Live

  • @zeke3388
    @zeke3388 2 місяці тому +1

    Chris Herren was a good player, and his story is wild

  • @valvenis2601
    @valvenis2601 8 днів тому

    I lived in Massachusetts in high school I remember when Herren came to my high school . Real ass dude, took time to talk to every single one of us individually. I bet he still could’ve ran us all in a game if we pushed him lmaao

  • @Maronator
    @Maronator 2 місяці тому +1

    "Chris Washburn, you're in... The Haaaaaaaaal of Shame!!!"

  • @tewodrosii2875
    @tewodrosii2875 Місяць тому

    0:53 magic is from my hometown, hes wearing the jersey for Everett High School, my moms high school.
    Also, magics parents used to babysit me as I went to the same church as them and they ran the nursery, but his dad would look after me and sometimes even watch basketball with me. I remember him watching a knicks game with me and saying "John Starks aint got nothin on my boy!" God, i miss that guy 😂

  • @RexT3rra
    @RexT3rra Місяць тому +1

    A feen told me that u do it one time you’ll be hooked for life

  • @archstanton2818
    @archstanton2818 Місяць тому +3

    NBA was great. It sucks now

  • @anthonypile395
    @anthonypile395 2 місяці тому +1

    Reminds me of the Genesis song Throwing It All Away

    • @CJEstradaMartinez
      @CJEstradaMartinez 10 днів тому

      I’m reminded of this line from “Love Takes Time” by Mariah Carey:
      “I had it all, but I let it slip away”

  • @tapedlocks
    @tapedlocks 2 місяці тому +2

    imagine failing an exam the same day a known crackhead drops 30 on you

    • @GreatMewtwo
      @GreatMewtwo Місяць тому

      Imagine realizing that the crackhead was a 3-time high school All-American.

  • @Noifsnobutsnococonuts-rj4kk
    @Noifsnobutsnococonuts-rj4kk Місяць тому +1

    “Upwards of just under” ???

  • @YouTube_Disciple_YTD_Demon
    @YouTube_Disciple_YTD_Demon 2 місяці тому +2

    Dam his Mom is 40 years older than him .. that's his grandma he just don't know it .. I heard back in the day when daughters would have a baby as a younger teenager 12-15 sometimes their mother would raise the child as her own as the the birth mother's sibling
    I don't know how true it is so maybe someone 50+ can confirm or deny but I'm sure at has at least happened before since nothing is new under the sun.

    • @Bigedub101
      @Bigedub101 2 місяці тому +1

      I wouldn't be surprised it's same as people love acting like back then was so different, it just wasn't internet to get info as fast.

  • @Maronator
    @Maronator 2 місяці тому

    1:35 is he saying his mom and dad gave him crack or told him not to do crack? Maybe explain tbat better

  • @zubsiro
    @zubsiro День тому

    Thank the basketball gods for David Stern

  • @matthewwhite5600
    @matthewwhite5600 Місяць тому +2

    I remember Richard Dumas,man he gave Pippen fits in the 93 Finals

  • @bxmmo2x
    @bxmmo2x 2 місяці тому +1

    Shoulda put steven jackson on this list first person inna league off the wock😂💯

  • @antwanharris8902
    @antwanharris8902 2 місяці тому +5

    Bro, just imagine Spencer Maywood get a past just bc of his fucking manger. He had the biggest opportunity. 10 percent of nike or 100k he wanted the 10 percent manger took the 100k behide his back.smh 10 percent of nike today think about.

    • @Bigedub101
      @Bigedub101 2 місяці тому +1

      😂😂He be by far the richest

  • @Renzo_Benzo
    @Renzo_Benzo 2 місяці тому +2

    yuo go from triple digit paychecks to 6 figures a month and you dont know what to do with all that money

  • @SadLayfWayUyab
    @SadLayfWayUyab 2 місяці тому +1

    how about david thompson?

  • @awakenthewoke1091
    @awakenthewoke1091 13 днів тому

    I couldn't imagine blowing some lines then playing a basketball game.

    • @johnbutler2780
      @johnbutler2780 12 днів тому

      Ya maybe the dope they get is different. Really can’t do much of anything after some lines. The whole your Stronger faster sharper isn’t what I see or know. Your stuck with your heart beating out of chest then 20 mins later you need a line rinse and repeat.

  • @HeresTheThingOfItYoutube
    @HeresTheThingOfItYoutube 15 днів тому

    Dumas was a really fun player

  • @virgillesaca
    @virgillesaca Місяць тому +1

    Damn Washburn was a tall ass bum

  • @brl0522
    @brl0522 Місяць тому +1

    I have never heard of crack laced weed.. hmmm sounds fishy

    • @MrReymoclif714
      @MrReymoclif714 21 день тому +1

      Just put the rocks on top of the weed. When Jamaicans smoke it with a joint they call it an oooooley! 1986!

    • @brl0522
      @brl0522 21 день тому

      @really? Never heard of it..Scary shit imo

  • @HAHAZODIACK
    @HAHAZODIACK 2 місяці тому

    LIBRA, you know like Benny Anderson, the fab five with Clyde Davis and Elija one do you remember that college team? you remember Chapman Derek Rose it’s always drug problems. LIBRA the scale weigh up and down. You never know what you’re gonna get.

  • @MrReymoclif714
    @MrReymoclif714 21 день тому

    Some guys in here I’ve never seen! Waittaminutte!!! That’s RICHARD Dumas and not JOE DUMAS???

  • @DevanteWilliams-u1g
    @DevanteWilliams-u1g 2 місяці тому +1

    I see dumas like every other day and the spice got him

  • @coreybanks8636
    @coreybanks8636 12 днів тому

    How do you STEAL food outta garbage can?

  • @FULANODETAL
    @FULANODETAL 2 місяці тому

    so in NBA or usa..you went from unprofesiona college to NBA without any intermedial phase...?not even luka don did that on real madrid

  • @JayLandon64
    @JayLandon64 Місяць тому

    David Thompson would have been good for this video.

  • @popcorn9791
    @popcorn9791 19 днів тому

    What is he saying in that gym talk? All echo.

  • @williamsmith1738
    @williamsmith1738 2 місяці тому

    Where Bill Walton??

  • @conormcgregor7325
    @conormcgregor7325 2 місяці тому +1

    Are drugs that good? What should I try?

  • @bandito241
    @bandito241 2 місяці тому +12

    We were lucky MJ didn’t used that shit.

    • @XylophonesWrld
      @XylophonesWrld 2 місяці тому +2

      Some people think he used Coke.. me personally I don't think so

    • @shagg21
      @shagg21 2 місяці тому

      I'm sure he would have tried to be the best at it

    • @cedricliggins7528
      @cedricliggins7528 2 місяці тому +2

      Rumor has it that he did occasionally

    • @tapedlocks
      @tapedlocks 2 місяці тому +5

      @@XylophonesWrld jordan could never do moderation lmao if he did coke he would make sure he was the best at doing coke and probably die

    • @Bigedub101
      @Bigedub101 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@@tapedlocks😂😂😂That be bad but why I laugh. His competitive spirit 😂😂

  • @Dteeeeeeeeeeeee
    @Dteeeeeeeeeeeee 6 днів тому

    The narrator referred to Dumas as a crackhead, addicted to crack. Neither is true. It was pure cocaine. Nice though to see them overcome their struggles.

  • @Mamameloracing
    @Mamameloracing 2 місяці тому

    Bronny is fighting Hard for that Label

  • @The2006Scaper
    @The2006Scaper 2 місяці тому

    The north remembers

  • @97mrick
    @97mrick 2 місяці тому +2

    Quit with the typing sounds and shit lmfao I want to scratch my eyes out. Otherwise the video is prefect

  • @MmGocrazy-rs1cc
    @MmGocrazy-rs1cc 9 днів тому

    The nba crack head era was crazy

  • @dailymeme6476
    @dailymeme6476 2 місяці тому

    Nobody busted harder is crazy

  • @brandonoliver7624
    @brandonoliver7624 Місяць тому

    I love the video bro but by no means did u give Chris enough credit yeah he fucked off what he could’ve been but he got it right and is now earning a solid living

  • @frog5104
    @frog5104 2 місяці тому +2

    Why are we hearing a keyboard?? This is irritating

  • @HAHAZODIACK
    @HAHAZODIACK 2 місяці тому

    When are you gonna talk about Chris Washburn? or should I say Lenny Cook Dennis Rodman Charleston, White James Brown, Marcus, Dupree Hunter, and they all got the same big ass smile. Those Pee-wee Kirkland. talented than a motherfucker people, but as soon as one of them, motherfuckers hit any kind of drugs it’s over

  • @SteveIrunguJermaine
    @SteveIrunguJermaine Місяць тому +1

    Dear Lord Jesus help me to make the right decisions in life in Jesus Christ name Amen

  • @IceManLikeGervin
    @IceManLikeGervin 2 місяці тому +2

    Eddie Griffin...

    • @terrys4351
      @terrys4351 15 днів тому

      Yeah. That is tragic story.

  • @StinkyBoar
    @StinkyBoar 2 місяці тому +3

    Damn

  • @pgdog888
    @pgdog888 2 місяці тому

    Chris was lazy very lazy and big headed. I'm a Dubs fan. A wasted pick.

  • @JeremyTaylor-bh6dx
    @JeremyTaylor-bh6dx 2 місяці тому +8

    No offense, bro, but drug addiction is not stupidity it is a disease just like alcoholism cocaine even took a hold of a pope back in the 1800s where he drank Italian wine laced with cocaine I know from experience from my uncle going in cocaine rages out of nowhere and it would definitely frighten me seeing how much bigger and stronger he was than I was at 18 hopefully he's doing much better and I still love him dearly as someone I'm proud to be his nephew of and as a former crackhead myself, I have to tell you in everybody to have mercy on people who get on this drug yes it is a bad decision, but the hell you go through from such a horrible drug is that including cocaine all in and of itself is something that should be extinct coca leaves should not exist anymore in the way I even got into most drugs and yes you name the drug, I probably done it these are just men who fell into something that was created by Satan himself the bigger they are the Harder They Fall

    • @RayzeCruxis
      @RayzeCruxis 2 місяці тому

      You said it yourself its a decision and if they keep making a bad decision with all the help available, then it is stupidity and mind you this is coming from a child of an alcoholic and coke addict father and opioid addict mother.

    • @RayzeCruxis
      @RayzeCruxis 2 місяці тому

      An illness with many services to help and to me if you don't want the help with ppl begging you to get help, you earned the stupidity label.

    • @antoniotutt4894
      @antoniotutt4894 2 місяці тому

      No it's stupidity. A disease is something one cannot control getting. A stupid choice is just that-a stupid conscious choice. Period.

    • @WoodT92
      @WoodT92 Місяць тому

      Its a self inflicted disease. Addiction is terrible and i know its almost impossible to get over it but if you willingly get into it, i feel that the responsibility lies on you.

  • @sfrank8687
    @sfrank8687 2 місяці тому +1

    Ben simmons!!!

  • @JackLalane-yt4iu
    @JackLalane-yt4iu 2 місяці тому

    Can't wait until the NBA's PED scandal to get exposure.
    LeBalco is gonna get the Lance Armstrong treatment.

  • @NormanEspina-ov6bn
    @NormanEspina-ov6bn 2 місяці тому

    Hi

  • @GARYDARNELL-w4e
    @GARYDARNELL-w4e 2 місяці тому +3

    ADAM MORRISON JACKASS
    WHO LOOK LIKE YOU 💯💯🏀🏀