Linsanity was so special. Dude continues to be one of the most humble players. He got to experience every aspect of life in the NBA, from nobody to superstar, even if it was for a short while. And he's got a damn Harvard education. He owes nobody anything.

I was rooting for Lin, man-as I'm sure quite a few people were. I'm glad he's still playing, but after Linsanity was treated like a fart in the wind, I saw the beginning of the end. Given his age and the far better young talent in the league today, unfortunately he'll never see another NBA minute

Rookie at 26 is wild. Highly commendable. Brief or not, all these guys achieved the dream.

You missed one of the biggest parts of Tyreke Evans. He was banned from the NBA for violating the terms of its Anti-Drug Program. He was banned for nearly two years.

Lin was actually doing pretty well in Charlotte with Kemba plus when he got traded to the Nets he was still great but that opening game injury destroyed his NBA career...was really sad to see but he''s doing well playing in Taiwan right now though, he never gave up and I respect that.

dude your videos are so refreshing. Got sick of those monotone, 10 minute, redundant videos. I love the length of your vids, the energy you bring, and the fresh nuance in your takes. Excited to watch your channel grow!

Surprised that you didn't mention Tryeke Evans getting banned from the NBA for drug use. It's sad, and I don't think the NBA should do that to players who test positive for hard drugs. But it is a part of Tyreke's story.

Lin is a serviceable role player. Hardly a flash in a pan. Just shows if you give an opportunity and the right system for a player, he will bring out his best

Lin brushing off kobe to hit the deep 3 is one of the biggest flexes anyone has ever done in a basketball game

I wouldn't call Bynum a One Hit Wonder though. He had a couple healthy season that lead to 2 championships.

I’m glad Lin ended up with a ring, and imo he has a pretty good reputation among most people, even years later. Besides the occasional Shaq or whatever, his legacy is pretty solid.

REgarding Barros, I think it's worth mentioning that his 46% was during one of the 3 years the NBA moved the 3pt line in pretty significantly from 23.9 ft to 22 ft in 1994-95, 95-96 and 96-97. If you look at some of the 3 pt numbers from that era, they are pretty skewed. He still was a hell of a player and had a more than respectable career in the NBA.

Watching Aaron Brooks during his first Rockets run was unreal. We thought we had our answer at PG to take some of the pressure away from T-Mac and Yao.

This was so well written and researched. Great clip!

i was so shocked when i saw ur subscribers, ur videos r just perfect and so professional! so underrated bro, wish u all the best fr

Carmelo Anthony f up linsanity

This channel keeps getting suggested in my feed lowkey even coming thru 😮‍💨

Glad I found this channel! Perfect length & never a dull moment

The year Barros shot 46 from three was also the year the NBA moved in the three point line.

Love your video, man. Keep it keep.

Didn't expect much before watching, but this was gold. Keep it up!

Thank you for including really detailed and well punctuated subtitles and closed captions in the video, i really appreciate it

Best video so far broski keep grinding ❤

Please keep up the great work bro, fantastic!

I just randomly scrolled past this and thought you were calling these guys one year wonder frauds but i was certainly wrong you did a great job explaining why some of these guys production dipped ... also Jeremy still had the same talent in hou and Charlotte that he had in ny imo had a team made him the number one guard he probably would have still avg 20 ppg & 8 apg

You make great content, you're my favorite nba channel rn

First time viewer, solid content. Good pacing, background audio to compliment the visual.

Tyreke Evans would've stayed great if they kept him at the PG position. They kept trying to play him at the SF or SG.

Thank you for including that Mike James season. I remember Raptors point guards from this era fondly: Rafer Alston, TJ Ford, Calderon of course.

I don’t think people understand how hard it is to stay at the top especially in a place as competitive as the NBA

MCW was genuinely fantastic for the Magic. No he wasn’t a star, but his defense and hustle was an integral part of us finishing above 500 in 2019. Stats may not tell the whole truth but dude was an absolute dog every time he touched the court for us.

ty evans also kinda deteriorated cuz Sacramento tried playing him at diffirent poisitions instead of his main PG role

Great video!! Hope too see more like this!

I was just looking for a 20+ video. Posted this right on time

Already 2023 here in Germany so happy new year my G! Hope you have a great 2024 - looking forward to your videos!! All the best 🫶

you've earned a sub great content

Interesting that you didn't mention what killed Evan's career which was getting banned for 2 years for smoking Weed (i think) and then basically getting shadowbanned by the league. Without that he was probably the closest to living up to his potential. Just the year before getting banned he averaged 19 and 5 on the Grizzlies after finally playing as a Point Guard. Yeah he's not becoming a superstar but i can see him going in that Jamal Crawford,Lou Williams,Mike Conley tier of one of the best to not make the All Stars

These stories really take a lot of research for and commitment thanks for the vid this tells the cold truth about being a athlete

aaron brooks and kobe in the same sentence is wild 😂

The fact that the term itself "Linsanity/Linsanity run" is forever part of sports lingo should show how popular he was in his prime. So happy I got to live through it.

You should do a follow-up part 2 - and include Isaiah Thomas, Yao Ming and Joe Smith. Thanks!

Not everyone can be a legend, but all these guys still lived out their dreams

Good stuff my man 👍👍

I remember wanting to see more of Lin before he finally got his chance on a team that was floundering. I figured he could at least play some opportunistic defence and run the pick and roll, though I felt his biggest perk was not being Ray Felton. I figured he was a good, under-utilized player. In the end, that’s what he was. He wasn’t Linsanity, but he was a solid, serviceable player.

Sheck Wes out here catching strays 😅

Great video man, surprised you only got 17k subscribers with this level of content

Are you sure to vanilla ice ? You are so funny ...

You know you’ve left a legacy when there’s a phrase based on your name. To have a Linsanity run

Man this video brought back some memories of guys from the earlier 2ks 😅 MCW and Evans were so goated

Love your stuff, suggestion, a look at 1979 the first year of the 3 point line.

**Video idea**: One team wonders Players who built themselves on a team, leave or get traded and are never the same, even if it’s their prime or not. Seeing lance stephenson reminded of it. But there are many other examples

I remember Aaron Brooks giving us a show against Kobe and the Lakers. Man, that was special. Kobe my GOAT but he made me root for him cause he looking like my favorite player, my boy, BRoy for a moment.

Linsanity is the only one hit wonder who achieved nba champion status

Don't get me wrong he was never as good as when he ran the point but callin' Tyreek Evans a 1Hit Wonder is disrespectful AF😂

Tyreke Evans doesn't really belong on this list. I get that when a rookie averages 20-6-6 you don't expect him to end up being just a slightly above average Starter but out of 10 seasons in the league he averaged 15 or above in 7 of them. So being between 15-20 for most of your career (while largely playing out of position and even averaging 19 and 20 respectively whenever you actually play in your proper position) is hardly a one hit wonder. Same for Guys like Andrew Bynum and Roy Hibbert. Those guys don't really belong on the same list as guys like Aaron Brooks,Jeremy Lin and Carter Williams

Very Interesting perspective & Narrative

Ahh the stanky leg is such a classic dance move 😏

bro its already passed 15 years. enough for most players who played in NBA for 15 years.

As soon as I saw the title of this vid, mike James was the first guy that came to mind lol

“If you ever find yourself watching Venezuelan pro basketball, you might…” Be kidnapped in Venezuela or in even worse trouble than that

I was very sad when Jeremy Lin was traded from the Knicks to the Rockets.

Great piece! My all-time NBA what-if is my buddy Kevin English? "Who??" you ask? All time leading scorer at the University of Hawaii, and only played for three years. Back then, bigs didn't shoot threes in the NBA. Would love to see what he could've done in today's NBA landscape. Still, he had a successful career in Europe. Makes the whole province of Newfoundland and Labrador proud.

14:32 I think it was a locker room era . Somebody started messing with his wife and his game just fell off the map

Tyreke Evans was gonna be a baller. Great video.

Tyreke was still good after the first year injuries man

Man, I thought Larry Sanders was HIM!! Glad to see the man doing better and taking care of himself!

Damn it’s crazy bc I rmb almost every player on this list and I never rmb them actually being bad or falling off it was like they just disappeared after setting the league on fire

Bynum and gasol was the reason I became a laker fan and the riots after they went back to back 😅

Linsanity will definitely be embedded into the basketball culture forever. If it's not for injuries, Jlin would've had a solid career

Larry Sanders found himself RIGHT after he signed a 4 year 44 million dollar deal.

Great vid new sub 👍🏾

If anything Dana Barros was a pre Iverson

As soon as he said Aaron Brookes, i thought 'wasnt Kyle Lowry in that team'? Then he said about Lowry taking over!

Lin lowkey had a comeback with the nets before he tore his ACL then he was never the same like D-Rose sadly

Jeremy Lin could’ve been a big star if the Knicks knew his potential and gave him an actual chance

Jeremy lin really set the world on Fire without driving left

How was Tyreke looking like Kyrie when he was in the league before Kyrie💀🤣🤣 also Tyreke got caught up on that Anti drug thing that’s why he was out of the league

Great fuckin video 🔥

Little remembered fact about the Linsanity game: After a hot start, he went into an 0-8 shooting draught, but it didn't phase him and he got right back to work once he got one to go down, finishing the game 10-19. Mamba mentality!

Lin was good and severely underrated. The problem is ppl especially asian community milking his 2 weeks long linsanity too much. I think there's at least 5 linsanity movie already. Totally unnecessary

Brooks a hood legend

Michael Carter Williams was just the strangest career

One player I feel a lot of people forget had the league in a chokehold for a bit is Kendrick Nunn. The first half of his rookie season the league had no clue how to stop him. Now I don't even know where he is

Hibbert's spot really could have been filled by him, Drummond and Monroe. It always surprised me just how cold the NBA went on all 3 of them. Almost overnight

Weird question but where did u get the posters you have in the back

The rise and fall of Lin should be studied at Harvard

As someone who’s had a past with hard drugs ( I never ended up strung out or homeless and without but it messed up my potential) I always rooted for Tyreke Evans. I even kicked it with him a few times when he played here at U of M… I think the NBA should help try to rehabilitate players with these struggles but you have to want to get help too.

Aaron brooks was a stud to pick up in a 2k franchise

Made this video 7 years ago with MCW, Tim Frazer, JLin and others, literally the same type of video with stats and explanations, it got maybe 500 views in that amount of time

I'm surprised AAron Brooks was even mentioned in this video. That's how big a one hit wonder he actually truly is.

you can add TJ Warren to the one hit wonder. he was dubbed as the Michael Jordan of the NBA Bubble. too bad he was plagued with injuries

I agree with everyone on this list, except for Tyreke Evans. He was much more than a one-hit wonder, he had a solid five-six year peak.

Good vid. The real 1 hit wonder tho… Sundiata Gaines.

Man I love Sheck Wes Mudboy Album 🥲

He need to change the Title because A one hit wonder wouldn't have 4 or 5 successful seasons and play 10 seasons in the league

Man Aaron Brooks was a CHEAT CODE in 2k11

Stop it. MCW was never good. Dude put up empty stats on a horrid team.

Aaron Brooks played with Lamelo in Australia with the Hawks

I grew up in Japan where like 99% of population is homogeneously yellow, so there’s very few people noticed the gravity of Linsanity at that moment. Altho for me personally, that was a historical moment even it was really short period, he changed the world for us.

Don’t forget that Lin also won a chip with the 2019 Toronto Raptors.