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[QUOTE="Horn88, post: 3395818, member: 7087"]
Kwame Brown has turned into this punchline of sorts but reality is his story is actually pretty sad. His mother raised him and his 7 siblings alone in rural GA after leaving their abusive father (who is now in jail for killing his girlfriend). He was committed to Florida I think and wanted badly to go to college and just be a college kid there but his family and those close to him more or less forced him to go to the NBA because he was a lock top 5 pick and they desperately needed the money.

Before the season Jordan took him under his wing and worked out with him a bunch. He was Kwame‘s and every other young players idol and 19 year old kid Kwame who didn’t have a father figure really started looking at him as a mentor/father figure. Once the season started Jordan did a 180 and would go out of his way to bully Kwame and get in his face in practice all the time. Would call him a *ggot and all kinds of names in front of everyone. And Kwame just being a 19 year old kid who everyone says was a quiet, smart kid would tear up and look stunned that the guy who was his idol and he thought would be his mentor/father figure was treating him this way.

Wizards as an organization and other players, coaches, etc. all pretty much fell in line with Jordan and did pretty much nothing to help this again 19 year old kid from rural Georgia adjust to being an NBA player and then that pretty much set the tone for his development and rest of his career.
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