NBA / Jan 8, 2009 / 12:19 pm

The Most Unpopular Players In NBA History

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Fresh off Sasha Vujacic’s beef with Chris Paul, the Orange County Register put together a list of the most unpopular players in NBA history. Citing him for “his pesky defense and questioning of almost every foul he’s called for” as reasons for hatred outside of Laker Nation, Vujacic heads the list of some of the most notorious NBA players.

The list includes:

Sasha Vujacic
Vlade Divac
Dennis Rodman
Bill Laimbeer
Rasheed Wallace
Ron Artest
Rick Mahorn
Danny Ainge
Charles Barkley
Josh Howard
Vernon Maxwell
Stephon Marbury

What other players belong on this list?

Source: Orange County Register

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  • fallinup

    So it was that move, PALakerFan? Not the 31 pts., 6.6 rebs., 11.4 asts, 2.8 stls he averaged that he pasted on the Lakers on his way to his first ring? The 90′s must’ve been an unhappy time for you.

    Just wubbin’ it in. haha

  • LakeShow84

    And once again.. we dont “own the Spurs”

    But we do beat them when we meet.. I was sweating last years Western Finals because we had them.. i didnt want that, i wouldve rather had the Hornets and their golden NBA boy, Paul..

    But i think its Phil and like i said Pop cant figure out the Triangle.. Or the triangle jump trumps he defensive philosophy somehow..

  • PALakerFan

    Let’s not forget, Manu was a shell last year. A healthy Manu is a handful. Mason’s shooting worries me a little too. Let’s drop this before it comes back to bite us in the ass.

  • http://www.nba.com Jay

    I know I hate Sasha more than any other player in the league. Actually, Sasha is the ONLY play I hate. Sad thing is he isn’t nearly good enough to warrant any hate, it’s just he’s so damn annoying you can’t but hate his guts. Between the complaining EVERY CALL, pounding his chest for anything, chucking whenever he gets any daylight, and his undeniably homoerotic hugs with Kobe… I can’t see how anybody outside of Laker nation can like this guy.

  • doug

    i’m a laker fan an i hate vujacic that guys real annoying and he always wants the ball. It’s like everyone knows he’s a role player and he just didn’t get the memo. This cat thinks he should get as many touches as KOBE and it’s most evident when theres a minute left in the game and the lakers have like a 10 point lead, the opposing teams fouling like crazy, this cat will not pass the ball even because he wants to get fouled and take the free-throws of which he will miss a lot of times. This dude is a clown and I wouldn’t miss him if he left.

  • TomGfromCanada

    any1 who says Reggie Miller needs a kick in the teeth.

  • Rangerjohn

    Manu is the only player I can think of that no mater what ALWAYS gets booed in every arena except SA

  • E$

    way to much hate already in this world, it’s hard to hate anyone in the “L.” Karl Malone is the only guy that comes to mind, I hate Dale Ellis for being such a great shooter. I hate Tmac can’t “Go Hard”……

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y1aeW-t4AM (No Curry talk today?)

  • Captain Obvious

    JOHN STARKS

  • TD

    Sure are a lot of HATERS today

  • IGP

    sometimes when I play NBA Live some random player will light it up and I end u hating the fucking guy in real life.

  • darthwitha j

    mine would b:
    isiah(what a douche)
    Laimbeer(see above)
    Danny Ferry(big pale AS@hole)
    John Starks(nominally talented little prick)
    Kobe(great player, horrible person)
    Danny Ainge(we all knew he was a dick)
    Christian Laettner(total dickbag)
    S Jack(for not recognizing when to get the fuck out tha hood)
    BRUCE BOWEN (anytime you injure or try to injure another player, it moves you to the top of the shitty human list)

  • vinny

    abdul-rauf- for his political stance
    Lambeer-cause he was a dirty mf.
    rick barry-cause he was so fucking arrogant!
    wilt-cause he slept with 20,000 women!
    mj-if you werent a bulls fan u hated his goat ass!! but u respected him! cause he was a bad man!

  • vinny

    and for all u ewing and starks haters………stop the hate. Hate reggie miller’s punk ass!

  • added

    Bruce Bowen – dirty fucking prick trying to injure other players

    KG – what a punk this guy is

    Antoine Walker – the ‘shimmy’ anyone?

    Rip Hamilton – I hate that diving, faking, flopping shit he does when he kicks that leg out for a jumper

  • http://www.alltexasforums.com rangerjohn

    ok i have to say this, for all the “bruce bowen tries to injure players” people out there, HOW MANY PLAYERS HAS BOWEN ACTUALLY INJURED? i mean damn how man? count them!! i can think of ANY!!!!! he has never injured anyone. name them come on you bruce bowen hating/loving if he was on my team fucks!!!!

    damn i love smithwicks!

  • Raj Johnson

    Isiah Thomas has to make this list. Between the freeze out on Jordan in the all star game and walking his team off the floor without shaking hands he wasn’t making too many friends!

  • Ian

    palakers fan
    hahahah so true thats the dumbest move ever he could just lay that crap in LOL u see people gettin excited about that shit.

    lakeshow
    comon let me defend my team bro lol 04 fisher lucky shot 08 manu injury before that we were 2-2 spurs 99 and 03 lakers 01 and 02. timmeh was injured for the 00 playoffs damn. btw if manu leaves the spurs i wont like that flopper hehehe.

  • Ian

    btw what do u mean i was your fav spur fan im not anymore?????

  • Ian

    doug where have u been?????

    lakeshow
    and me defending my team im not talking out my ass i said we are the second best team in the west right now and im 100% sure we are meeting in the playoffs unless kobe or duncan get injured. and yes the lakers do beat us alot but we cant out the sucky laker years that not fair u only counting when u have a better team than ours.

  • Phileus

    Surprised Rick Barry isn’t on that list! After players on that list retired, people would still talk about them fondly like “he was such a goddamn prick he was good” but Barry is just 100% persona non grata in anything NBA-related.

  • added

    @rangerjohn

    how’s this?

    http://7gameseries.com/bruce-bowen-dirtiest-player-since-john-stockton/

    besides, i said that he ‘tries’ to injure players all the time, i didnt say he was rambo. im talking about that ‘ankle step’ he does when a player is landing and undercuts them, eg; like he did on melo, amare, etc…not to mention that knee to the groin of nash…c’mon, dont tell me you think this is accidental?…once or twice is an accident, but several times in the same cicumstances?

  • Ian

    added
    i think bowen is a little what we call here “alitraniao” it doesnt have an english translation but its what we call someone who doesnt have complete control of his body when he tries to do something that is more or less the def of the word which btw is an insult. people with this dont usually know they do it.

    for example lets say u throwing a baseball and u go all girly and it either goes to one side intead of where u were plannin on throwin it or it slips outta your hand u r un alitraniao.

    not sayin bowen is clean but he has that shit which doesnt help his case

  • Ian

    if bowen isnt like i think he is and does all this in purpose well damnnn

  • Ian

    added
    lol saw the link wallys video was the best hahaha

  • Atom

    - Bowen
    - Garnet
    - Vince (not me, but people HATE that guy), lot of Kobe hating too,
    - Rick Fox
    - Sprewell
    - Webber
    - Marbury
    - Dunleavy

  • http://www.alltexasforums.com rangerjohn

    @added

    and which one of those guys got hurt exacly? and there are TONS of youtubes of other guys doing the same thing, people just dont like bowen because he is annoying and he is a spur.

    where the video of steve nash kicking yao in the back, where is the vid of steve nash kicking kobe in the nuts? you dont see steve nash on the list. where is the video of chris paul hitting that kid in the nuts in college, where is the other angle to the bowen paul vid where cp hits bruce in the nuts before over acting the bump with bowens leg? dont see paul on the list. how about the vid of jason terry hitting finley in the nuts? man there are sooo many youtubes of little shit like this against almost anyone. the majority of the “bruce bowen is the dirtyest” vids come from jackass suns fan (are you a jackass suns fan?) looking for excuses as to why their team can NEVER beat the spurs in the playoffs, when they should be looking at their players and coach not excuses.

  • My 2 Cents

    Wow this is a popular article, alot of comments.

    I hate Robert Horry, this guy is a dick! He was a passenger on championship teams and as a result he thinks he’s a legend of the game because of the rings he has!

    Come to think of it you can add Steve Kerr to the list and also some of the current celtic’s bench warmers.

  • vinny

    ranger- didnt both vince carter and ray allen sprain there ankles when bowen undercut them??

  • PALakerFan

    I’m all for hitting Nash in the groin. Go Bowen.

  • PALakerFan

    Kick Shaq in the nads while you’re at it.

  • http://www.alltexasforums.com rangerjohn

    vinny, actually neither of them where actually injured. both DID complain that they COULD HAVE sprained an ankle.

  • Spartdog

    ANTOINE WALKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hate that damn shimmy with his slalomly shaped body.

  • George W Kush Sr

    Bowen is hated by everybody.
    Kobe gets enough hate.
    Never liked Karl Malone, either.

  • j

    kobe kg, id spit on both of them if i saw them on the street

  • JAB

    i hate cowboy boots wearing, rodeo riding, child molesting and dynasty destroying karl stupid ass malone, where’s my mail punk

    of course lots of other players to hate, what is watching sports without rooting against players like a sissy who’s called the admiral, the best dunker ever who’s afraid to drive through the lane and steve nash – i know he’s a good player, and maybe a real nice guy but every sportswriter used to make vacation in his butt, i just didn’t like the way how everybody was sucking up to him

    oh i forgot irk nowitzki – every time i want to watch basketball games in germany they show dallas, i’m tired of watching games through sopcast

  • theginge30

    Brad Miller(Redneck), Big Country Reeves(Fat Slob), Shawn bradley(captain useless), Tyrone Hill(ratfaced), Micheal Ruffin(Idiot), Tim Duncan(Sloth like), Allen Iverson(Loser primadonna), Kobe(cocky, whiny panzy, douchebag, rapist,rat,too good), Jonathan Bender(Biggest waist of potential of all time!), Sean Marks(why are you in the league?), Dajuan Wagner(Messiah tattoed are your arm, hope you become a cult leader), Mike dunleavy Jr(epitome of why i hate duke), JJ Redick(get to the pros and can’t do shit), Adam morrison(ditto as JJ, shave that god damn mustache you ironic hipster loser), Bruce Bowen(ass clown), Carlos Boozer/Elton Brand/Grant Hill(why’d you have to go to duke?), Vince Carter(Bitch), Anderson Varejao(just because some people like you), Steve francis(excellent career decision maker), Kurt thomas(looks so damn scary), Cherokee Parks(too many things), Doug Christie(his wife, and the headbanger hand symbol that means he loves her?), Fran vasquez/yaroslav koralev/saer sene(combined they are as useless as shawn bradley), Martynas Andriuskus??(Complete idiot, go in the god damn draft earlier, also would of been hated anyways), Darko Millicic/Zarko Cabarkaba?(Darko for his blond hair, Zarko for not being in the league anymore), Kwame Brown(olowokandi 2.0), Micheal Olowokandi(version 1.0), Andrea Bargnani(be consistently good, though right now he’s doing pretty good), yao ming(you should dunk/rebound everything! and your monstrous cankles), stephen Jackson(captain jack is a dumb nickname, who makes someone with guns tattooed on his stomach a captain, just shoots his gun in the air outside strip clubs, at least be a man and shoot people like pac-man), dermarr johnson/jay williams(learn to drive your motorcycles! Jay went to duke), Darius Miles/Quentin Richardson(should of never split up, rage against the machine of basketball players).

    could keep going but i got bored

  • http://bucksketball.blogspot.com Jeremy J

    Spree is tops on the list I think. He embarasses Milwaukee

  • MP

    Rick Barry certainly belongs on the list — a great crybaby but also a phenomenal all-around player. If he wasn’t such a jerk he would also be more highly rated as a small forward.

  • NBAfan90

    What about Reggie Miller and Bill Lame-beer…even Charles Oakley’s bullyin ass….Kg will be there pretty soon too

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/djkianoosh djKianoosh

    Jordan
    Kobe
    Magic
    Bird

    … if you’re a sixer fan.

  • http://jewz.com Jeff

    Suja Vujabitch fuck I hate him he thinks its soccer out there.

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