The Most Terrifying Stories in Basketball History

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From freak injuries to shocking court cases, these are the scariest stories in NBA history.

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Mr. Jordan was shot to death while in his car.

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Folks, we're experiencing an earthquake right now.

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Starting with Andrew Bogan. See, in 2010, the big man was having the best season of his career, averaging nearly a double-double while anchoring a playoff-bound team. But in one unlucky moment, it all went wrong for him, because when attempting a dunk, he landed horribly on his own.

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Let's change, how about that pass? It's a bogey elbow, watch out. Oh no, Andrew Bogut came crashing down, and that's... Oh, his arm's out. Oh my goodness.

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His right elbow is dislocated.

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Oh my goodness, that was horrific.

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That thing twisted like a pretzel, but what happened to Paul George was even freakier, because this injury wasn't just gruesome, it was pure nightmare fuel. See, he was playing the Team USA scrimmage in Las Vegas. Not even a serious game, just a light-hearted exhibition you'd expect to end in high fives. Not high trauma, but midway through the fourth quarter, James Harden chased down a fast break and tried to lay it in. PG went up to contest, and just like that, on live TV, his leg snapped like a glow stick.

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Paul George is shaking up, ran into the stanchion. Paul George suffering a serious lower leg injury.

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Good lord, that was hard to watch. And if you were in the stands, you had to hear it too, but the scariest injuries are the ones nobody's seen. Like in 1993, when the Boston Celtics were taking on the Hornets in the first round of a playoff game. At this point in time, the Celtics were a team in transition. Larry Bird had retired, Kevin McHale was done, and the torch was passed in to a young 27-year-old all-star named Reggie Lewis. He was captain in the future of the franchise. And Reggie's balling out versus the Charlotte Hornets, already dropping 11 points in the first quarter, looking sharp and in control. But with about five minutes left to halftime, he suddenly drops like a stone.
No foul, no bump, not even in possession. Dude just fell on his own. Nobody knows what's going on. Crowds confuse, medical staff rush to the floor, but Reggie sits up and says he's okay and walks to the bench. But something was clearly wrong. I mean, nobody just falls like that for no reason. And even though team doctors called it a fainting episode, he was later diagnosed with a heart condition and told to retire. But my boy Reggie was chasing greatness and there was no way he wanted to quit. So after second, third, and fourth options from doctors, he finally got to go head to play again. Fast forward a few months and he's throwing up shots in a university gym when he suffers sudden cardiac arrest and falls down. But this time, he didn't get back up. Yeah, at only 27 years old, Reggie died on the court. Man, that's just sad. But Gilbert Arenas was just mad. Yeah, this guy is one of the most unpredictable stars in NBA history. Explosive scorer, all-star, walk-off three-point assassin, but also kind of off. I mean, the guy once dropped 60 on Kobe and told him before a tip-off that he was going to do it.

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He's got it. He's got 60 Gilbert Arenas.

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He once brought a giant duffel bag of cash into the locker room just to show he bet on himself. We're talking Agent Zero, the king of chaos. But nothing, and I mean nothing, talked would happen inside the wizard's locker room. Here's how it went down. In 2009, Arenas got into an argument with his former teammate, Javaris Crittenton, over a car game on a team plane. Big money was on the line. Trash talk turned serious and threats were made. Yeah, but here's the thing. It wasn't all talk for Gilbert, because the next day at training, he walked into the locker room with a desert eagle handgun with the bright idea of putting it on Javaris' locker so he can make good on his threat of shooting him. Yeah, you know, like people normally do after a car game. But at that exact moment, Javaris walks in and this is where things get really crazy.

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He's putting that in Javaris' locker. When he's doing that, Javaris walks in and Javaris says, Oh, I don't need your gun. I got my own. And I wasn't actually there for that. That was the hearsay part. That's how the story kind of intertwines because I'm open. When I'm opening the door, they say that's when Javaris had threw gills. He threw a desert eagle across the locker room. Cause I opened the door and our team trainer comes sprinting out. Oh, they got guns. They crazy. I'm like, what the hell?