17. Rashad McCants
When Rashad McCants was drafted with the 14th overall selection in the 2005 NBA draft, he had a very bright future ahead of him.
Unfortunately, McCants was never able to live up to that future due to injuries and a scandal at North Carolina, where he attended college.
Nine years after helping North Carolina to a NCAA championship, McCants reported that he took phony classes at the University and had tutors write his classwork for him. Even though it is refuted by the rest of his teammates and the University itself, it still stands as a monumental question mark.
However, during his time at North Carolina, McCants was a vital piece to their championship team.
That team, which was full of future NBAers including Marvin Williams, Sean May and Raymond Felton, looked to McCants to carry the scoring load.
He played three and a half seasons in Minnesota, averaging 9.9 points on 36.9 percent shooting from behind the arc.
McCants best year came in 2007-08 when he averaged 14.9 points per game while shooting over 40 percent from the 3-point line.
Throughout McCant’s short career in the NBA, he briefly demonstrated the scoring ability he was known for at UNC. Even though he was never fully able to show it off the spark was certainly there.
McCants was traded to the Sacramento Kings in the middle of the 2009 season.
The Kings released him a little less than a year later and he never played in the NBA again.