Worst One Year Stint in Chicago Sports

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I saw a tweet yesterday wondering if the Bears cutting Parkey makes him the worst one year player in any Chicago sport. It certainly had it's ending, but would you say it was the worst?

For me, I'm going with Keith Bogans. Started all 82 games, but was never really a factor on the floor. Even as a starter, he was under 20 minutes per, and was always on the bench in the fourth quarter in favor of Ronnie Brewer. Which to me begs the question of why you were just never starting Brewer in the first place. But no, you "had to get him going early" which meant force feeding him the ball in the first quarter.

All of this is hindsight to be sure, but it makes me wonder where that team might have ended up if Richard Hamilton came to them one year earlier.
 

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All of this is hindsight to be sure, but it makes me wonder where that team might have ended up if Richard Hamilton came to them one year earlier.
In reality, probably still losers to Lebron...in my mind, CHAMPIONS BABY! :bullbang:
 

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I saw a tweet yesterday wondering if the Bears cutting Parkey makes him the worst one year player in any Chicago sport. It certainly had it's ending, but would you say it was the worst?

For me, I'm going with Keith Bogans. Started all 82 games, but was never really a factor on the floor. Even as a starter, he was under 20 minutes per, and was always on the bench in the fourth quarter in favor of Ronnie Brewer. Which to me begs the question of why you were just never starting Brewer in the first place. But no, you "had to get him going early" which meant force feeding him the ball in the first quarter.

All of this is hindsight to be sure, but it makes me wonder where that team might have ended up if Richard Hamilton came to them one year earlier.

Cody Parkey
Keith Bogans
Mike Glennon
Milton Bradley
Kordell Stewart
 

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Cody Parkey
Keith Bogans
Mike Glennon
Milton Bradley
Kordell Stewart

Hard for me to put Glennon in there, because I think he was a placeholder. Unless you're counting him being so bad that Mitch had to start earlier than what they would have wanted.
 

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Hard for me to put Glennon in there, because I think he was a placeholder. Unless you're counting him being so bad that Mitch had to start earlier than what they would have wanted.

Are we going by expectations? Or just overall bad? Cause he sucked.
 

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IIRC Brewer had a hamstring injury that was bothering him and thats why Bogans, who was signed as a end of bench guy, started. Thibs liked what he saw (and we did go on to win 62 games) so he stuck with the lineup.

Richard Hamilton sucked so bad and i'd like to forget he was ever a Bull. I wonder what would have happened if Orlando didn't match JJ Redick. We would have had both JJ and Korver to play off Rose.

Probably still lose to the Heat (looking back its easier to see how overmatched we were) but that would have been a better team forsure.
 

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If you add up all of Kevin White's games during his Bears tenure, you get about 1 year (14 games). So perhaps Kevin White is the answer?

Jay Williams had a rough go of it with the Bulls, too.
 

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Jay Williams had a rough go of it with the Bulls, too.

Jay Williams is a good answer.

Subpar rookie season (save for the game against Kidd) then ends his career in a motorcycle accident. Talk about deflated hopes and a waste of a 2nd overall pick.
 

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I suppose just overall bad, but I truly don't think there was much expectation from him.

I won't argue there was much expectation. Every smart fan knew he was going to stink.
 

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Rundblad for sure
 

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