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Amin Elhassan, ESPN Staff Writer 9y

NBA's best terrible-team stars

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Basketball is a complicated dance between the goals of the individual and the goals of the collective. In optimal situations, the excellence of the individual coincides with the success of the team. But often that isn't the case. When the team's fate is all but sealed, and the world knows it is heading for the bottom of the standings, the silver lining to talented players' rain clouds is the opportunity to post big-number campaigns.

There are three obvious stakeholders who stand to gain from inflated stats: (1) the player, who receives an ego boost; (2) the player's agent, who receives added leverage in contract negotiations; and (3) fantasy owners, who are looking to pad their own stats with no regard to real-life win percentages.

Here are five players who are more likely to fulfill the expectations of their fantasy owners than their team owners:


Bryant

Kobe Bryant | SG | Los Angeles Lakers

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