10 Players Who Turned Hero To Villain In Seconds...

It only takes a few

seconds

to completely destroy your reputation and today we have eight guys who witnessed firsthand

players

who went from being unanimously loved by everyone to unanimously hated by the entire league and that's how it happened to Devin Booker, who today has become one of the biggest

villain

s in the game over the years, there have been many incidents and moments that have given him a little hate here and there, but the real hate didn't start until Chris Paul joined the Suns because before that. The team was terrible, but Booker was playing very well, so everyone had him as an underrated and underrated player, which gave him a lot of support, but no one really looked at Devon Booker or cared about him enough to think about him like a true

villain

, but the first.

An example of this Minds fan crossover was in 2019 when that clip came out saying he didn't want to double team in an open gym, hey bro we don't jump to an open gym, bro I'll get it all season long. brother, I claim he felt completely justified in doing it, but it seemed like almost everyone in the NBA didn't agree and that's where it started in the bubble in 2020, fans started supporting him as a villain in 2021, conversations got They got a little stronger when Phoenix started to have success and reached the NBA Finals, but the real moment that instantly

turned

Devin Booker into a real bad guy came last year when he was on the front lines of being embarrassed and slapped. for a man in the playoffs.

Devin Booker had a great time. talking trash to the entire Mavs team while they were up, most notably stealing the ball from Luca and calling Jalen Brunson soft, but when the Mavericks took the series to game seven, Luca had the most disrespectful playoff performance I've ever seen and hit the Phoenix Suns. while Devin struggled to score or actually do anything and while Devin now played quietly for the entire second half with a 40 point deficit. The hatred towards him could not have been stronger, it was from that moment on that he became a true villain. of the league went from underrated and underappreciated to mocked all offseason and with the way this team has come out this year things have only gotten worse, but no matter how good a player is and even if they are successful, they still there is a way to become a villain and Kevin Durant did it on a much larger scale because in the blink of an eye, 29 other teams in every other fan base instantly

turned

against him when Katie left the OKC Thunder to join to the Golden State Warriors. flipped and there were so many layers to why this turned Kevin Durant into a snake within

seconds

of the news breaking from the beginning, Durant was abandoning Russell Westbrook and the Thunder without warning and it wasn't even like they were a bad team There were only three games to one in the Western Conference finals against the Warriors, the defending champions, while Golden State had just reached the last two finals winning, one of them finishing with the best record of all time and did by having the twice reigning.

MVP and the unanimous first, but due to a bad contract that Steph Curry had signed, Kevin Durant was able to join the team directly. They have one of the three best

players

in the NBA and join what at that time was already considered a super team. It has not been more unfair because almost unanimously everyone agreed that the NBA season was useless because we already knew who was going to win and we were right twice in a row until Kevin was injured and still to this day despite the fact that He has two championships. The rings that have almost no Valley because of the way they won them, then there is LeBron James, who did something very similar to Durant when he made the decision.

Up until this point, he was one of the most beloved players in the NBA, if not the most beloved. about the Cavs dominating the league, putting up some of the best numbers and performances we've ever seen and doing it all alone, he was single-handedly putting Cleveland on the map and putting them at the top of the league every season, that's how the story tells . goes with a lot of players, a great player trapped on a bad team quickly becomes a fan favorite, just like what happened to Devin Booker before the sun started to win well, finally enough was enough and LeBron decided to leave , but he did it in the worst way.

It's possible he didn't tell the Cavs he was leaving. He made his announcement on live television to everyone, including his team. He waited nearly a month in the offseason to do so, leaving the Cavs and many other teams with no options on what to do. his teams now and joined a super team, making him not only the most disliked player in the NBA, but also one of the most hated athletes in general in the entire world, and this hatred towards him lasted for a while. and two, and they blamed him for everything. On the other hand, the era of the super team is beginning.

Kawhi Leonard is not that hated, but I feel that over time he has become a villain of the league. Let's go back a little to the San Antonio Spurs of the early 2010s, who were well-known and pretty. Load management was invented a lot thanks to Greg Popovich, although at that time Kauai did not normally do load management as he was in his early 20s, but then Zaza Pachulia took him out with an ankle injury and never It has really been the same because that angle injury was followed by losing confidence in the Spurs doctors and requesting a trade.

He made a full recovery, joined the Raptors and began to learn from what he learned from the Spurs and continued to take games off due to load management. season, but he was good, he won an NBA championship as the only star on his team, making him unanimously loved and respected throughout the league by Clippers fans and players and he continues to miss games due to the management of the load, which didn't help. anything considering he still tore his ACL as a sophomore and missed the entire 2021 season because of it, so this current season comes around and after almost 800 days without playing a game, he returns with minutes restrictions, no plays back-to-backs and even came off the bench for a couple of games and by that time the fans were already done with them and speaking of being overly cautious, we have the opposite of that with this man who, as you know, was a three-time consecutive player.

Defensive Player of the Year, the fans were behind. To him, the Jazz were a fun team, but then they did the microphone thing and, obviously, when this happened, no one was caught wearing the number 27 jersey. Now Rudy was hated for closing the game for everyone, while Ben Simmons became in a villain to close. he himself stopped playing and it all stemmed from one infamous moment, the botched dunk. Now I won't say Ben was loved before this, he was still a controversial player and a meme for not throwing the ball, but at least he was respected well after the play.

He was called upon by fans all over the world and even his own teammates, then his career spiraled out of control from there and even with the fact that he wasn't a

hero

or even a fan favorite by any means, I have never seen it yet. a decline in the way Ben proceeded throughout the entire saga of refusing to play sitting games, dropping his teammates and being kicked out of practice, he became a joke and not only fell in terms of popularity , but apparently that's why it became a meme. It can affect one's confidence. Vincent Vince fell so far that he went from an All-Star to a role player in one season and, compared to where he once was, even though the Nets are winning games at this point, Finn has become quite Irrelevant. and speaking of irrelevant, Dwight Howard is still playing basketball in Taiwan and his guilt for being one of the most loved and hated players in the NBA was as quick as it gets, he had dominated the Orlando Magic and built a solid fan base during his first eight. years in the league as the best center in the game, he was the best five player in the league at his peak and one of the most popular in multiple commercials each year, but then he joined the Lakers and in just one season he fell and Since then , his popularity plummeted just as quickly, the same smile and optimistic attitude that made him a

hero

who loved to play just as easily made him a guy who doesn't take the game seriously enough and lacks a murderous mentality.

So now it's clear that changing teams is one of the biggest factors that makes a player loved and hated so quickly and that's exactly what happened to Ray Allen, even though the core of the Boston championship Celtics only played for five seasons. together they quickly developed a Brotherhood and winning a championship in their first year together was a great way to start that relationship and so is playing a full seven game series in the finals against the Lakers and thanks to all their great games, these guys felt that they had a strong bond and were in this together, but that was when things got ugly, the heat was the team to beat and that had created a rivalry with the Celtics and after losing to them in the playoffs for several years they They hated each other or so we thought because when Ray Allen didn't tell any of his teammates and signed with the rival team in free agency, it was one of the biggest villain moves you can imagine.

Ben everywhere turned against Rey and so did his and Paul Pierceman's former teammates. the relationship was pretty quick but it took him and kg almost 10 years to do it and he still hasn't talked to many of these guys to this day and although kyrie irving and lebron james seem to be close they still rarely are. I talked to this day after what Kyrie saw on the Cavs. Irving was one of the most popular players in the NBA thanks to how good he was, the highlights he created, and the success he was having playing alongside LeBron made it hard not to like him. him and until 2017 everything was great, his career was going perfectly, but then when he randomly requested compensation, the team that had just reached the NBA Finals was when everyone turned against him, the move took the NBA and it didn't make any sense.

Of Kyrie Irving's story as a hero ended because he practically saw his own self-destruct story and became the villain of the league with the terrible leadership of the Celtics, the Flat Earth was left out for an entire year. He started this season and many many other things obviously really changed the perception of him with the fans and the entire NBA. Vince Carter also changed the perception of him and he wasn't shy about it. Today we think of him as a Raptors fan favorite, a legend and a future Hall of Famer. He and his career started off great, he became a superstar in Toronto, he gave fans hope for the first time in franchise history and, combined with that and some of the craziest dunks in NBA history, no wonder why he became a fan favorite in the league but that changed pretty quickly he wanted to trade him but they wouldn't give it to him so he faked an injury so he wouldn't have to play a bet on purpose and even told the other team what The Raptors were about to flee, so obviously fans everywhere turned against him, it's a little difficult to face Vince at that time, although in his team's best season they finished with a record of 47-35 and he scored 27 points per game that year, followed by Antonio Davis. him with only 13 points per game, so no one else on the team even averaged double figures, so Toronto deserves some blame for not helping this man, things got even worse when the Raptors had to trade him to the Nets and which turned out to be one of the most lopsided trades in NBA history, making him a villain, especially for Toronto Raptors fans, thanks for watching, don't forget to subscribe.