The November 26 issue of Sports Illustrated had a fantastic graphic identifying the five active NBA players with the worst winning percentages among those with at least 400 games of experience. Some interesting results (as of press time):
Jamal Crawford (New York, Chicago; 461 games): .306
Shareef Abdur-Rahim (Sacramento, Portland, Atlanta, Vancouver; 830 games): .331
Adonal Foyle (Orlando, Golden State; 652 games): .334
Eric Piatkowski (Phoenix, Chicago, Houston, LA Clippers; 775 games): .348
Eddy Curry (New York, Chicago; 451 games): .357
Given that this was originally posed as a trivia question to us by a magazine subscriber, there seemed to be several other candidates worth considering as well. That said, we did some research and found percentages for a few other notables, some of whom simply weren't bad enough to make the cut and some who have yet to play 400 career games yet. But this list could be a-changin' sometime in the near future.
The veteran guesses that weren't even close:
Jason Richardson (Charlotte, Golden State; 460 games): .441
Zach Randolph (New York, Portland; 407 games): .452
John Salmons (Sacramento, Philadelphia; 383 games): .465
Chris Kaman (LA Clippers; 320 games): .478
Youngsters with potential:
Al Jefferson (Minnesota, Boston; 221 games): .412
Damien Wilkins (Seattle; 218 games): .413
Studs en route to glory:
Sebastian Telfair (Minnesota, Boston, Portland; 235 games): .255
Nate Robinson (New York; 157 games): .280
Ryan Gomes (Minnesota, Boston; 156 games): .308
Josh Smith (Atlanta; 248 games): .310
Zaza Pachulia (Atlanta, Milwaukee, Orlando; 295 games): .342
Dan Dickau (LA Clippers, Portland twice, Boston, Dallas, New Orleans, Atlanta; 251 games): .355
Primoz Brezec (Charlotte, Indiana; 291 games): .364
Just some food for thought. Feel free to submit your best guesses, and we'll be happy to look them up and see where they fall on this list!