7. Jayson Williams (1998)

After he was selected in the first round of the 1990 draft, Williams just couldn’t find his groove in the NBA. The Sixers gave up on the 7” center only two years thereafter. Finally, in 1998, Williams started to get in sync. He was second in the league with 13.6 RPG and helped the Nets win 17 more games than the previous season. He was selected to the All-Star team alongside his teammate, Jason Kidd.

Things went south from there. Williams would only play one more year in the pros before getting convicted of manslaughter and ending up in prison. All in all, he had career averages of just 7.3 PPG and 7.5 RPG.