ITT athletes who never could deliver on their early hype

ITT athletes who never could deliver on their early hype.

Bonus points if unrelated to injuries

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>someone somewhere was still comparing him to pelè in 2013????!

women's tennis is a joke

Shooped

It was fine until "Serena wins lol", but that era has ended. The women outearn the men.

She won like 2 majors.
You should've picked someone like Kournikova who didn't win a single pro tournament in her life.

>The women outearn the men.
kek

Harry Kane.

>Patrik Stefan you should be ashamed of yourself

>She won like 2 majors.
and a gold medal at the olympics

kournikova isn't a great example imo, i don't think anyone expected her to be 'great'

larbon james

Tony Mandarich

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Would Monica Seles count? In the early 90s she was on track to be even better than Steffi Graf; After the 1993 Australian Open she had won 7 of the last 9 Grand Slam events... then she got stabbed. It took over two years for her to come back and she was never the same afterwards.

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You now remember anthony bennett

>when even the worst team in the NBA waives you

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Gilbert Arenas

whatever happened to Jason Bay?

I don't think fabricated hype counts.

Vince Young
Freddie Adu
Reggie Bush
Len Bias

every England squad ever

Todd Marinovich

Anyone post this legend yet?

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he retired 3 years ago

the fact this guy got drafted 1st was a huge shock...but yea his pro career has been a farce

Alexandre "the Duck" Pato

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>Russian Muslims

And they almost cursed QTinho comparing him to Pato

Juuuuust a bit outside

>hop in the car, ese, we're going for a rip

>Pato
>Ganso
>Leandro Damião
>Réver
>Jô
>Grafite
>Nilmar
>Keirrison
>Gabigol
>Walter the fatass
>Diego Tardelli
>Jucilei
>Bernard " the boy with happiness in his legs"
>Deivid

We are filled with these.

>Walter
he's world class tho
youtube.com/watch?v=qgzKJSeK8F8

this

the best british footballer in decades came from fucking wales

Greatest Cardinal's hitting prospect since Pujols.... and now just like Pujols, he's an angel now

No birthday cakes for you!

Pretty much every Seattle Mariners first round pick in the last decade.

>Jeff Clement
>Brandon Morrow over Lincecum
>Dustin Ackley over Trout
>Nick Franklin
>Danny Hultzen
>Mike Zunino
>DJ Peterson
>Alex Jackson


Also, pic related

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lin sanity was fucking lit though

>biggest draft bust ever ends up being canadian

i have a yakupov jersey kek. kind of like it its a little ironic as opposed to 98% of everyone wearing a mcdavid jersey nowadays

>E!SPN hype

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He died..so it doesn't count.

Greg Oden

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Tell that to the Celtics

>le pacey cracker
>decades

I guarantee you're Welsh. Having one good season and then swapping it for literally "Celtic in the Sun" doesn't make someone a great player. But what am I saying, you don't need to be consistently good anymore to be considered world class, you just need plenty of hype and to have a good 6 months.

>inb4 "I meant Giggs"

Love when Willie McGinnest dominated him in the 1996 AFC Championship game. Lot of people unaware Belichick beat Coughlin in the playoffs twice before their SB matchups (as an assist, though).

Lampard is from Wales?

bale was the best player in the premiership by far when he left, and he's still a regular at madrid.

if that isn't world class what is?

christ

>by far
Bit hyperbolic. Was a really good year for Suarez and Van Persie. The PFA team of the Year was probably the best ever, I reckon.

>Tfw you remember that he was the first pick
>Yfw he was drafted over the sedins

Daigle was a fucking meme

What's more impressive about this guy is that, after flopping impossibly hard thanks to steroids and an uncanny hype machine, he actually managed to scrape himself up from the bottom of the barrel and had a decent professional career.

He went from everything to nothing, and unlike most busts, managed to still become a good pro.

>saying "I reckon"
>that flag

Please end yourself ASAP

t. small baller

Stay in your lane Argy.

t. planck baller

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LeBron James

>won a ring with the Lakers
not a bust then

Also the same thing happened to Donald Young except he went pro at 15

I love his face