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What Makes a Player a ‘Bust’? Brian Windhorst Explains

What Makes a Player a ‘Bust’? Brian Windhorst Explains

Update: 2023-12-05
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For fans of teams who didn’t have much to play for in the previous season, the NBA Draft represents a hopeful outlook towards the future; the chance to find their franchise cornerstone who can change their misfortunes and lead them to glory in the years to come. Or at least, that’s the ideal.


Now, six weeks into the NBA season, we’ve reached the point in the calendar where certain rookies start to get called the B-word: busts.


But do some players earn this moniker unfairly? Recent chatter around rookie Scoot Henderson, who is a mere ten games into his NBA career, got us wondering why fans and commentators can be so quick to trot out this label. So what is the actual definition of a bust? Who qualifies and who doesn’t? And how often are players, eventually, able to shed this unfortunate distinction? Brian Windhorst joins the show to explain.

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What Makes a Player a ‘Bust’? Brian Windhorst Explains

What Makes a Player a ‘Bust’? Brian Windhorst Explains

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