Most hated Rocket player ever.....

Billionzz · Mar 21, 2013

Bublanski said: ↑

ryan bowen.

dude looked and played like a r****d.

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There was nothing wrong with Bowen, his busted his ass everytime he was on the floor, whats not to like?

Royce has never played so I don't really consider him a Rocket.

For me it has to be Pippen.

tmac2therack · Mar 21, 2013

Juwan Howard

rcketsfan1 · Mar 21, 2013

Must re-iterate Scottie Quitten. F that guy! He only made our team worse!

Is it my imagination or did he really 'fall down' with the ball and ten seconds left against Utah in a pivotal playoff game?

BeardSanity · Mar 21, 2013

^yeah that bastaard should be on the list. hate seeing that guy

BeardSanity · Mar 21, 2013

speaking of J. Howard

rcketsfan1 · Mar 21, 2013

rcketsfan1 said: ↑

Must re-iterate Scottie Quitten. F that guy! He only made our team worse!

Is it my imagination or did he really 'fall down' with the ball and ten seconds left against Utah in a pivotal playoff game?
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Sorry lakers game one 1999

"Pippen's disappointing first season in Houston has spilled over into the playoffs. In Game One, Pippen managed 14 points on 5-of-14 shooting and committed a crucial turnover in the waning moments that led to Los Angeles' 101-100 victory."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/scoreboards/1999/05/11/recap.LAL-HOU.html

ab0_bleedred · Mar 21, 2013

Idk who you are ADINGLE10 but how DARE you hate steve francis.

He was my childhood hero.
So sad what has become of his life now though..

Asian Sensation · Mar 21, 2013

I almost quit being a Rockets fan.

meh · Mar 21, 2013

I think the younger fans have forgotten how badly Pippen screwed us.

In 1999, the Rockets signed him to a 5yr/$67mil deal when the salary cap was $34mil. By today's salary cap standard, that's a 5yr/$114mil deal. To compare, Joe Johnson aka the albatross contract was 6yr/$120mil. Superfriends signed for 6yr/$110mil. Amare signed for 5yr/$100mil. Also in that same year, Barkley signed for $1mil just so Pippen could make that much.

That year the Rockets exited in the 1st round. Pippen sucked, was locker room cancer, and forced a trade for what was affectively Kelvin Cato and lots and lots of crappy (but somewhat shorter) contracts. And Cato sucked too, aside from his beastly pre-season game that made CD give him a 6r/$42mil contract(6yr/$82mil in today's NBA money).

And Royce White is beating him in this poll?

BDswangHTX · Mar 21, 2013

Somebody tell Kelvin Cato, we want our money back.

Codman · Mar 21, 2013

Kevin McHale. Wait, what? :grin:

Panda23 · Mar 21, 2013

FKNN RUDY GAY MANNNN

tinman · Mar 21, 2013

Pippen is easily the most hated.

However newbs don't really know much about his ONE YEAR as a Rocket. It was probably one of the worst moves in franchise history and caused the franchise to go backwards even though at the time, it seemed like a great move.

It should be a poll for who's #2.

tinman · Mar 21, 2013

TebowTime said: ↑

I wasn't really old enough to comprehend why people called him a quitter. Can someone fill me in?
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http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=172601

Paper: Houston Chronicle
Date: THU 05/13/1999
Section: Sports
Page: 1
Edition: 3 STAR
It's down to heart of the matter / Now playing at arena near you: Pippen, the Phantom Menace

By FRAN BLINEBURY
Staff

NOT that it happened very often. But you know how Michael Jordan would have responded if he'd made that costly turnover in the final 7.6 seconds of the playoff opener against the Lakers.

Clear the decks at the Great Western Forum. Sound the alarms. You would have had incoming for Game 2. And plenty of collateral damage.

Jordan would have taken advantage of the slightest opening in the defense and blasted his way like dynamite through a rock face to create the ones that weren't there. He would have forced the action. He would have imposed his will on the game.

Scottie Pippen took two shots in the first quarter. The Phantom Menace.

The Rockets have walked so quickly to the brink of elimination, yet in the three-plus months since his heralded arrival in a stretch limousine with police escort, Pippen has inched no closer to understanding his role on the team.

"I don't know," he said. "You've been watching all year. Maybe you can tell me."

I can tell him this. Jordan or Larry Bird or Magic Johnson would never have felt the need to ask a columnist for such clarification.

And maybe that has been the problem all along. That we have been blinded by Pippen's glittering collection of NBA championship jewelry earned in his years with the Bulls and Jordan and expected him to do too much upon arrival.

Pippen came to Houston with the papers as one of the NBA's 50 greatest players but without a pedigree as the horse who can pull the wagon.

Maybe we chose to overlook that in all of those Chicago title runs, it was Jordan, John Paxson, Toni Kukoc and Steve Kerr who stepped up to make those memorable game-winning plays. Not Pippen.

Perhaps we forgot that when Jordan was off chasing curveballs for the 1993-94 season and most of '94-95, the Bulls did not advance to the NBA Finals, and the most memorable image of Pippen was his petulant refusal to get off the bench for the last 1.8 seconds of a playoff game against the Knicks. Now, his Game 1 shot at Charles Barkley is a bookend of non-responsibility.

The Rockets expected a leader. What they have gotten is a fragile ego who would prefer simply to kick in the chorus line.

What Pippen and his other former Chicago teammates - Kerr and Luc Longley - have discovered is that life outside of Jordan's shadow can earn you a bigger paycheck. But it comes at a higher price.

Nobody's stock has plummeted like Pippen's in a season-long soap opera of ambivalence and discontent.

When he complained about the Rockets' offense, every accommodation was made for him. Pippen has been allowed to bring the ball upcourt and start the offensive sets.

"We have a system where the coach is very flexible," said Hakeem Olajuwon. "You are free to do whatever you want. You can't say you need to get somebody more opportunities, more touches. He has the ball in his hands. He has the ability to create. We welcome that. We want that."

Too often Pippen has shirked that responsibility, offering up an enigmatic smile and cool facade when what the Rockets have wanted and needed is fire and passion. Or at least a championship veteran's understanding of the game.

Prior to Game 2, he still maintained that Barkley's foul on Shaquille O'Neal with 28.4 seconds left in the opener was not a smart play.

"If we make them work the clock down and they score, we still get the last shot," Pippen said.

Yes, but the score is then tied and the Rockets must score to avoid an overtime on the Lakers' court, where Olajuwon has five fouls.

"Well, uh, yeah," he said.

As it was, with the Rockets ahead by one point, if Pippen had held the ball on the perimeter, he could then have lofted a shot to beat the 24-second clock that did not have to go in to be effective. If it bounced high off the rim, most, if not all, of the final four seconds could have run out by the time LA got to the rebound.

"You could see it that way," he said.

Believe it. Jordan, Bird, Magic or Barkley would have seen it that way.

Following Game 2, Pippen said his 0-for-7, three-point night was a result of hard labor at both ends of the floor.

"I'm chasing Glen Rice all over the court on defense," he said, "and then the Lakers are cross-matching and having Kobe (Bryant) make me work real hard just to get the ball up the court."

So maybe Cuttino Mobley could handle that duty?

"I'd rather do it," Pippen said. "I'm taller, and I'm a veteran."

That's the problem. He wants it both ways. The money but not the burden. The acclaim but not the responsibility.

"I know what I have to do," said Pippen.

Maybe this would be a good time to start.
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hahachui · Mar 21, 2013

Kenny Thomas?
why he is on the list?

Horry4theWin · Mar 21, 2013

Pippen left guns blazing.

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merrrlo · Mar 21, 2013

Derek Fisher. Even if he never played.

Raven · Mar 21, 2013

I proudly cast the go ahead vote for Winnebago.

Stardog75 · Mar 21, 2013

How is Vernon Maxwell not on this list? He went AWOL on the team during the playoffs and never came back. Don't forget that he also went into the stands and punched a fan in Portland. That was easily the most classless rocket I can think of.

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