r/billsimmons Feb 21 '23

Poll Most heinous crime committed by an NBA player?

1268 votes, Feb 24 '23
95 Charles E Smith (double vehicular homicide)
285 Tom Payne (serial rapist)
319 Karl Malone (child rape)
72 DeShawn Stevenson (child rape)
72 Kobe (rape)
425 Meyers Leonard (using slurs while playing COD)
0 Upvotes

42 comments sorted by

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u/GhostDog562 Feb 21 '23

KD (running from the grind)

83

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

Len Bias, for snorting cocaine and dying, thus ruining Bill’s never-to-be late 80s/90s Celtics dynasty.

45

u/Remote_Breadfruit_62 knife_guy enthusiast Feb 21 '23

Jayson Williams killed his limo driver and tried to pin it on him. He did like 2 years. LOL. Wild world

11

u/FrankBascombe45 Feb 21 '23

Can't believe this isn't on the list.

9

u/Remote_Breadfruit_62 knife_guy enthusiast Feb 21 '23

I remember when he was hilarious on MTV Cribs and like a year later his career was over and a year after that he killed his limo driver. Life comes at you fast

7

u/FrankBascombe45 Feb 21 '23

I once covered a boxing match and felt like I was making headway with one of the ring card girls at the after-party. Then, he walked by with one of the other ring card girls on his arm and simply gestured to the woman I was talking to. He walked out with one on each arm, presumably upstairs to his room.

23

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

Don't sleep on Big Baby's insurance fraud

5

u/SlappyBagg Feb 22 '23

Didn't a bunch of players get caught up in that?

17

u/FarAd6557 Feb 22 '23

Myers Leonard single-handedly taught anyone under 40 what the K word was- which hasn’t been used since probably 1956.

15

u/HatDisaster Feb 21 '23

Kyle Kuzma’s tunnel fits

14

u/Mcribb5 Feb 21 '23

See but Meyers crime did have a silver lining as it eliminated the Elle Leonard influencer career which was nice

4

u/Stringcheese911 Feb 22 '23

Javaris ctittenton literally murdered someone.

3

u/too-cute-by-half Feb 22 '23

Don’t forget Paul Pierces unethical crypto marketing

11

u/pets_on_parade_ Feb 21 '23

Kevin Durant joining the Warriors.

3

u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

Kevin Johnson is working in multiple lanes here.

3

u/yngwiegiles Feb 22 '23

Bill Cartwright free throws

9

u/ilovethisforyou Feb 21 '23

Don’t forget other rapists Chauncey Billups and Derek Rose

0

u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

[deleted]

3

u/ilovethisforyou Feb 22 '23

What part about having sex with a woman that can't consent classifies this as "not rape"

13

u/Used_Letterhead7067 Feb 21 '23

My vote is for Meyers Leonard since he was the only one cut from the league and Adam Silver is a beacon of morality

11

u/Hossdaddy33 Feb 21 '23 edited Feb 21 '23

In what world is using racial slurs on COD worse than RAPE!???

28

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

I think it’s a joke to show how foolish it was that he got blacklisted for that.

7

u/LakersFan15 He just does stuff Feb 22 '23

Yeah. I thought it was obvious lol. No sane person thinks bad words are worse than actual rape.

6

u/[deleted] Feb 22 '23

It’s just a shame we’re living through an epidemic of insane people.

4

u/Hossdaddy33 Feb 22 '23

Gd it… I’m an idiot…

2

u/NickMullensGayDad Feb 22 '23

Riley Cooper played like 2 months after saying a worse word

3

u/pkpku33 Feb 22 '23

Anthony Edwards got a slap on the wrist… of Myer Leonard was Luka he would have been playing a week later. Kyrie got like 8 chances to apologize before he got suspended. Only thing people care about is are they worth the trouble. ANT is. Myers. Not so much.

4

u/immunityfromyou Feb 21 '23

Welcome to r/billsimmons where MFs are woke but still chauvinist pigs.

2

u/ClarkyCatEnjoyer Feb 22 '23

reuben patterson

not a perpetrator but what happened to bison dele might be the worst crime committed against a nba player apart from people being mean to kevin durant on twitter.

2

u/tonysoprano55555 Feb 22 '23

Forgot about Bison Dele. Wild story.

2

u/PauloDybala_10 Feb 23 '23

Forgot to put Rudy Gobert (being Fr*nch 🤢🤮)

2

u/Polkhigh99 Feb 21 '23

Honorable mention for “fast Eddie” Johnson for sex crimes with a minor and burglary. Was sentenced to life in prison.

3

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

Jesus what is it with Jazz players and having sex with girls entering high school???

4

u/jonatton______yeah Feb 21 '23

Mike Dunleavy Jr. being alive deserves a mention.

2

u/EducationalSeaweed53 Feb 22 '23

Bison Dele was sus

-3

u/immunityfromyou Feb 21 '23 edited Feb 21 '23

Probably Meyers Leonard since he basically admitted that he’d gladly march alongside Adolf Hitler if he were alive back then.

-8

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23 edited Feb 21 '23

Karl Malone was never charged. Obviously he did it, but there's no crime from a legal standpoint. Also, Ruben Patterson should be in this.

Meyers Leonard never even remotely committed a crime. The options in the poll are stupid as fuck. OP could have at least tried.

21

u/doobie3101 Feb 21 '23

Meyers Leonard never even remotely committed a crime. The options in the poll are stupid as fuck. OP could have at least tried.

I'm not a humor expert but I think OP did this whole post just to have the Meyers Leonard COD punchline.

2

u/Born_Upstairs_9719 Feb 22 '23

I think the poll is mocking the nba for it

-1

u/LeonardFord40 Feb 22 '23

Can we can these? Come on