The Deep 3 Podcast - Tier Listing Washed NBA Stars | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

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I am going to show you guys a series of washed up NBA stars. We are going to put them into a tier list. Not based on how good they are. You guys are all washed. It's about them at the end of their career in their twilight days, of course. Put them into a tier list based on how they went out. Be Souls, read off these years for us. All right.

Iconic ending. You were still that guy. Respectable ending. Ung, don't got it no more. Cursed jersey image went outside. Yep. So it's about how the final, what's the final chapter of your book say? Okay, okay.

Who was the first? Who's the first guy? First guy is LeBron! What do we do with 2026 LeBron James? Ooh. I can't say he went out sad. No, certainly. I mean, you still that guy, right?

Relative to his age, nobody's ever been this good at this old. I would say respectable ending. I mean, you got sweat, but it's still respectable. Well, he's not. Like, he's also not done. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah, some of them aren't done.

That's what I think you're still that guy. Because at this point, you're still averaging 20 plus at 41 years old. But it's not, it's not. an iconic ending. He didn't do nothing iconic in the past couple years. But I think if anybody deserves, you're still that guy, which kind of is relative to age, is LeBron. Still the guy for sure. Okay. If he would have had a game against

O'KC and had like a 2018 go to say Warriors moment, gave him like 40, 45, it's iconic. But he didn't do that. Would it have been iconic to get gentlemen swept? Yeah. Okay, so LeBron, everything's iconic. Hell yeah. Who am I to argue? Who's next?

All right, next player. 2019, Dirk. He went out with Luca Donches next to him That's kind of cool Is that iconic to hand the torch like that? Iconic pictures Maybe it would have been if Luke had stayed Conic picture

Probably He was just out there though You should run it around Statute Barely running It was more like power walking on the court That's John Lure right there man He was nothing

He was posted Yeah So he certainly didn't have it anymore It's respectable ending Because he stayed on the same team Yeah but he didn't go outside Yeah, I think it's respectable Yeah, so it's either he doesn't have it anymore

Or respectable ending I think it's super respectable He went out team legend Never left the team Handed the torch to Luca They got that honorary all-star picks If he got honored and respected Respectable ending

Yeah I think to be respectable ending If you stay on a whole team Your whole career Or you stay on one team Your whole career It's probably gonna be at least respectable I agree

Team legend Next 2014 KG Oh man This is the year They traded for him And they thought they'd contend They thought they built

the super team and he immediately played like half the minutes he played the year prior then i'm not going to lie this is a cursed image i actually don't think it's cursed he don't i don't think it's cursed i just he just did it happen yeah i don't got it no more but the brooklyn jersey makes it cursed that was also a very shitty air of the jersey they had like no trimmings and like the tex is bad it's a very ugly jersey he got nothing good going on right now man he that picture at least was up there when it comes to being the king of wash oh the video of him yelling yeah like that's your wash bro i'm You're washed.

Oh, yeah, but I think what you're describing is the definition of Ungdungdungado no more. They traded for him in his last All-Star season, immediately stopped being an All-Star. He just didn't got it. Got off of him at the perfect time. Yep. Now we got zero and seven. Hung Doe got him more tough. Next.

2016 Kobe. Iconic ending. Yeah, iconic as fuck. Yeah. Again, like Dirk, one team your whole career, you stayed, never left, and then you had that type of game. How much you dropped in the final game? 60. 60.

60. Remember where you were it and happened? I was at my house. What were you doing? Crying? Yeah. Boring a jersey?

Yes, I was. Yes, you were. Yeah. You left the tears with the jersey. Dedicate those tears to him. Of course. Naturally.

See, it's obvious what he did. It's iconic. It's iconic. Facts. I'm tearing up right now, just thinking about it. I was crazy. I think I fell asleep,

woke up on the rerun and did not touch my phone at all to make it feel like I'm still watching it live. Dedication? Yes. that was that respectable probably not but i'll let you live

i'm gonna let you live but 60 points in the last game crazy super iconic next 2026 clay oh man curse jersey image why is he on the map curse jersey image went outside yeah man this is just bad oh went on and the make stuff went outside go ahead put it down a tear yeah yeah yeah he was out there getting blocked by himself Just shooting the ball going backwards, blind his head. That's tough. And every woman on social media is like, who is this bum to think he can do such a thing?

We're not sad. Man, that's a four-time champion. That's who that is. Yon. We're not sad. Super tough. And no one makes it more sad. I mean, he's kind of.

He was supposed to play with Luka. Here he goes. Here he goes. It's part of man. For the record, I didn't start none of this. today, man. This is his bag. He was his bag.

He put you on top. He put you on the sober jam screen. This is his bag. He was, he was just on Instagram live like two days later on the boat. Was that real? Just being Clay Thompson. I thought that was fake. I don't know.

You fell for it. They just pulled her. I was fake. I said, I don't know. I don't know. I was not going to use my media literacy to figure out if the IG Live was real in that moment. You should have. No, no.

He went outside. All right. Next. 2003 Michael Jordan, Wizards MJ. Is it not really a cursed image? You put two years there. Maybe if it was one year,

it'd be cursed jersey image. It's not that. He averaged with 20 years. And he still had it. It's not really respectable. You were still kind of that guy. Yeah, because you have 20 after taking two years off.

That's certainly respectable at the least. in 0. Yeah, in 03. To be a 20-point score in the Deadball era. Yeah, you're still that guy. You're still that guy. Okay. Next. 2026 Chris Paul.

Oh, went outside. Went outside. It's not even your fault. Tailu's a dickhead. Steve Bomber's a dickhead. Lawrence Frank's a dickhead. They sent you back in. Sorry.

It's so crazy how this team and their hierarchy just doesn't understand the importance of team culture and team legends. And not only to do Blake Griffin dirty, the worst way trade him up trade him up after you like try to entice him and tell him his jersey is going to be in the rafters send him to the pistons you tell Chris Paul to just you don't trade him you don't cut him you don't bench him and give him

DMPs just tell him go home that's crazy it's a hike yeah that's crazy it's a metro told him to kick rocks that's crazy right it's mad you didn't even pay for Uber my god what else sad and highly unfortunate yeah all right next 2011 Shack

definition of cursed jersey in Madrid I guess so I think it's either cursed jersey or went out sad Because he's cursed jersey Because he tore his Achilles Dude this is the face of washed That sounds like he went out sad Yeah

He tore his Achilles too Yeah I don't even think I remembered that Yeah that's going out pretty sad You remember the meme history forever For standing like this Yeah And you tore your Achilles

That's tough That's pain now and in the future Bro like this will live for the test of time, bro. Like literally, whenever anyone's referencing something that's washed or past its prime,

we just use, oh, Celtic Shack. It crossed sports too. Yeah. Like, people say that all the time. Like, Russell Wilson's in his Celtic Shack era. That's tough. Tough.

Breaking Sports boundaries. To be the face? To be the face. And I know it's crazy too. I think this specifically is a cursed image because you only see this picture with Celtic Shack.

There's no other picture that you see at all. Maybe you'll see highlights, Most part, just him just being whole home with the ball. Fuck it, cursed image. All right, next. Big Booty Lowry. Kyle Lowry.

20. Nice. You feel good about that? That feels good to come off the hand? It's a follow through smooth? I didn't stutter. So, yes. Did it?

Didn't touch the room? No. It's kind of respectable because now he's just out here being like a coach on the team. And he got two jobs. He preempted his retirement by getting a media job. He planned for the future. He planned his move before the current move was even over. And he's in his hometown too as well.

Respectable ending. Yeah, respectable ending. Absolute. Double jobs. Not every big can have two jobs. All right. Next. 1996 Magic Johnson.

Hey, you know what? Respectable, man. You were still out there? Good job. He missed like four years and came back. That's insane. Four years is crazy. Was it four?

My guess. How many years do you miss? I'm not sure. It was somewhere around there. Let me see. It was something like that. He was kind of open too when he came back. Yeah, he missed four straight seasons from 1992 to 1995,

came back and played starter minutes. He was still giving like 15 and 9. 29 minutes per game, 14.6 points, 6.9 assists. He was 12th in MVP voting. Yeah, still that guy. Well, that's Glaze. I don't know why he did the Votes. He played half the games.

But yeah, very respectable ending. Very respectable. Okay. Next, 2026 Russ. Low-key, he did go outside for a couple years. This year he was like the best player on the Kings. So low-key drug himself back up to respectable ending. Yeah, I mean, he was like an important player for the Denver Nuggets last year.

And so many guys like, Yokic's like whist how important he is when it comes to accessing certain passes and all that and what he would do for them on the court. But I think it's respectable. Yeah, like he was a free agent to like a day before training camp. And they called him and was like trying to work. He's like, yeah. I'm always trying to work. I like I like to get paid.

And he came to work and did well for a whole season in which nobody gave a fuck. He so easily could have not tried at all. He tried. He did try. He was scolding the media. Like he was their parent and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

Also to turn around from being like a bad locker room guy to being like one of the best locker room guys. Mad respect. Exactly. Salute. Do you know where the Kings would be without Westbrook this year? Same place they were. I probably didn't matter. Not shit would change.

But good for us. At least it got a little fire. So. Love it. Next. 2023, Blake Griffin. Oh,

curse jersey image. Why the fuck was he a Celtic? This feels like a blip in my memory. And why the fuck was he wearing number 91? Why did he do that, too? It's kind of tough. Why does he look like Justin Tuck out there?

It's kind of tough. It's tough. I've started to grow to be like, you know, maybe Jersey is in the 90s. Maybe that's the new frontier. You may not see the vision now. You'll see it. He looks like Chris Long.

Let one NBA star. Where in number 90s? And his build that is a defensive end. Like, that's crazy. Oh, 100%. Yeah. He's a tackle. Why are you looking like Reggie White

on my basketball court? In his Celtics jersey, nonetheless. I'm not going to get him paid. Why do I have to remember that? They're trying to give me money. Does he have a ring? No. Does Blake return on?

Yeah, like from all the Am team, she was on. Damn. No, this is 2023. He was with the Celtics. Yeah, we did not win that year. Tough. Unfortunately, cursed image. It shouldn't have ended this way.

I realized. Why did you even go? because they were trying to give me money. They were. I have to keep this job. All right. Last one. 2019 D. Wade.

Very respectable ended. He had a game winner this year. Yeah. You went back to your hometown team or not hometown team, but to your team. You ended it out. Hitting game winners. Everybody was happy. You got your statue.

It was actually like important for that team too and the like obviously mid-level success that they had. But he was important. He had a triple double in his last game. Yeah. And he was real close to going out sad. Like the fact that he was on the Cavaliers, that could have been sad as fuck. That's a cursed image.

Curst image is for sure. Came back for 2019, had a great year. Game winners. I almost want to say you're still that guy. He came back and went out on top. He wasn't that guy, but he came back to where he went home.

retiring at home was a big deal. He went to Wade County. Went to Wade County. True. So we put in them up? I guess not. LeBron and Jordan being alone makes sense. LeBron and Jordan being alone

for the only ones that are still good at the end and then Kobe having the iconic moment, that makes sense. Yeah. Everybody else respectable. Yeah. He had 15 points a year. You average 15 that year.

I didn't know that. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. I remember, too, like he was a good player. Like, he had a very good year for that, what we expected. Yeah.

Okay, D-Wade. Todd D-Way, man. He's the best player here of the respectable tier. Well, I guess besides magic, I don't know how to do with that. Wasn't there. Yeah.

All I know by that year is magic was huge. Huge gigantic. Yeah. He was running around like Boris Dio died up. It was nuts. He was just Boris Dio. Actually, he was way bigger than Boris Dio. He was huge.

Yeah, because he's like two inches taller than the Boris. Yeah, and he was wider too. He was huge. How much do you weigh? Jesus. They weren't measuring. They don't want to do that to him. Let me see.

Let me see. Jesus. He looks like a monster. Like, show it, show it. Yo, he is. Brolic as hell. You can't really see it because of glare, but oh my goodness. It's a big guy.

Yeah. It's a big lad. Yeah. Shout to magic. Oh, man. It's hilarious.