Thanks to one of the Reddit users for putting us on the story trail of Gary Suiter, aka the WOAT, the “Worst Player of All Time”. OZY has dedicated a small portrait to the person concerned, a former NBA player assassinated in 1982 at the age of 37. Gary Suiter only played one season in the league, in 1970-1071, for the Cleveland Cavaliers. On the ground, it was already complicated. The 2.06m pivot was spinning at 1 point and 1 rebound in a disastrous team at a time when it was easy enough to compile points and rebounds for an inside. Out of his 30 games played, Suiter shot at … 35%, in a team that won only 5 of its 46 games that season.
It is especially outside that Gary Suiter has shaped his “legend” and earned this honorary title.
To put it simply and without revealing everything about the article that we recommend to English speakers read here, here are some of his greatest accomplishments. We warn you, its story is as dramatic as it is funny …
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– Suiter was kind of awkward and not very thoughtful. He was thus locked up several times in the locker room, in the toilets of the plane used by the team or in his hotel room. One day, a team coach, worried about not seeing him before a game, found that the pivot had knocked out in his hotel room after hitting his head on the door. He also missed several second halves because no one noticed he was left in the locker room.
– His partners were having such a hard time with him that Bill Fitch, his coach, introduced a rule stating that the player who loses the most balls in a match should share room with him on the road.
– One day in December, the front office received a call from a “fan” asking to see more of Gary Suiter in the field. The Cavs receptionist recognized the voice of the man on the phone despite her attempts to change it: it was Suiter himself …
– During a match, he went to ask the coach of the opposing team directly if he was not looking for a player with his profile.
– On a day off, Gary Suiter went to an undertaker’s shop. He told the seller that he was looking for a casket for a deceased family member and asked if he could use the store’s (landline) phone for burial arrangements. The seller agreed and slipped away. Meanwhile, Suiter phoned every franchise in the league to offer his services. A month later, a store worker showed up to the Cavs with a $ 700 bill to pay.
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– After a hecatomb of injuries, his coach was forced to start him during a match. Just before kick-off, while the staff was bringing the holders together to give them their tactical recommendations, they realized that Gary Suiter was missing. A few minutes later, one of the members found him in front of a stand at the entrance to the stadium, with a beer and a hot dog. It was only after this new incident that Cleveland decided to cut it.
– The most magnificent move, perhaps, is also his last. When he came to collect his last pay, Gary Suiter learned that a rule allowed married players to be reimbursed for their travel expenses. The future unemployed man has found nothing better than to go see a prostitute and offer her $ 50 to play the role of his wife. While he was arm in arm with the young lady and about to retrieve a nice little jackpot, Suiter got his hand in the bag by Bill Fitch himself, who kicked him out of the enclosure. .
After having disappeared from the radar for a few years, Gary Suiter unfortunately made people talk about him again at the time of his death. Due to gambling debt, he was assassinated by a thug named Gary Randall Hoxsie in 1982, sentenced a year later to life imprisonment.
It’s hard to find a more express, sad and dramatic career than this one.
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