That's a much more mature attitude than I had. I remember really liking everyone else on that team and he was just sort of there.

Undisciplined

His legacy was probably hurt by coming to the NBA at all. He had so much hype to live up to and his body was pretty much shot.

That's what I remember, too (the giant lumbering ruined body) but it had the opposite effect on me: the guy was still, even as a husk, a substantial player.  It made me think, jfc, if he's 

 somehow this good, how good was he a decade ago?

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NBA What If's

> His legacy was probably hurt by coming to the NBA at all. He had so much hype to live up to and his body was pretty much shot.

That's what I remember, too (the giant lumbering ruined body) but it had the opposite effect on me: the guy was still, even as a husk, a substantial player.  It made me think, jfc, if he's _still_ somehow this good, how good was he a decade ago?