#2 Alex Legion

Alex Legion managed to shoot way up this list with his most recent antics, and since he announced his 5th change of heart in where he will continue his amateur career this decade he makes it all the way up to #2 for embodying the entitlement and profound selfishness that represent his type of player. Alex Legion is basically a sixth man at best now  but don’t tell that to Momma Legion. This Mother of the Year has called into talk radio shows to trash coaches that her son was playing for, taken him out of schools, and basically shopped him around as if he were a used car. For his part Legion has been whinny, soft, and underwhelming at every stop. His refusal to accept coaching and play a role less than star on any team he has played for has stunted his growth as a player. He was at one time a very sought after recruit but has now fallen all the way to a sideshow in the Sun Belt conference because of his own bad choices.

The Lowlights:

• A native of Inkster, MI Legion spurned the Inkster public schools to play at the elite private school Birmingham Country Day for his first three years of high school. Before his senior year Legion’s mother moved him to the seedy basketball factory Oakhill Academy so that he would recieve the proper exposure and not have to “settle,” for the University of Michigan where he had verbally committed prior to his senior season but withdrew that commitment before leaving Country Day. It should be noted that Alex never started for Oakhill.
• Alex gave another verbal commitment and signed a letter of intent to UofM as his senior year was winding down only to once again pull back, this time after Michigan and coach Tommy Amaker parted ways.
• Legion finally committed to the University of Kentucky after his mother claimed on a Detroit sports talk radio program that she had repeated direct conversations with God and Jesus about her son and knew that he was destined for great things but that Michigan was not in his plan. Among her other claims were that this was not a one time conversation but that she was in fact a “prophet of God,” and said that God had told her that Alex would come back to Michigan to play in the Final Four in 2009.
• Despite his mother’s crazy prophecy mumbo jumbo Alex decided to transfer from Kentucky after half of his freshman season when he determined that Billy Gillespie was being mean to him and treating him “like a freshman.” Annette Legion claimed that Gillespie was a drunk and a fornicator who had his way with some of the players girlfriends. This claim was never substantiated.
• After playing the second semester at Illinois in 2009 (and not making the final four) and most of the first semester this year (33 games total) Legion decided to transfer from Illinois to play for Isiah Thomas at FIU. There is no word on if god told him or his mother to make this move.
• Alex Legion has played for 3 different high schools and left 3 different college programs. He and/or his mother has publicly trashed 1 high school and 2 college coaches, and they will still be a part of college hoops (unfortunately) for a least another year.

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