We always knew Jared Sullinger was becoming his own worst enemy.
After falling to the 21st pick because of back issues (and having subsequent surgery to clear them up) Sullinger showed promise as young player. He basically averaged 13 and 8 for two seasons… before a stress fracture in his foot cut his third season short.
In one of those seasons, his father cussed him out for not being his best.
“He came up and cussed me out,” Jared Sullinger told Basketball Insiders of his father. “I was thinking he had to tell me something or he wanted me to talk about how everything was going because he seemed worried about me.