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Washburn is out of basketball. He was banned from the NBA in June 1989 following three positive drug tests.
"He had skills, he could score close to the basket, but then he got himself out of shape," says Stan Kasten, president of the Hawks since 1986. "He was very immature for his age, which made the transition to the pros more difficult."
"He never was as good as his reputation," Bob Gibbons says. The recruiting analyst lives 20 miles from Washburn's hometown and watched him grow into an All-USA player and one of the top high school recruits in the country. "I watched him at camps, and he never took anything serious.
"Potentially, he had everything. Size and skill. He just didn't have the work ethic."
Washburn was caught stealing a stereo at North Carolina State and given 46 hours in jail, a six-year suspended sentence and five years of probation.
"The State people got after me because (N.C. State coach) Jim Valvano said on a radio program 'Chris Washburn is going to make our program,' " Gibbons says. "I said on another radio program, 'Chris Washburn is going to break their program.' "
One of Washburn's teammates recalls, "Chris never went to school. He'd come to some classes, but he was never there enough times to pass. But 'V' gets you through school if he wants to. I believe that ever since Chris got to State, I would be surprised if he ever passed a class. And he still managed to play."
The case went to trial, creating embarrassment for both Washburn and North Carolina State--including the revelation that Washburn had scored a dismally low combined total of 470 out of 1600 on his SATs (students are given 400 "automatic" points simply for registering for the test).
Washburn = the #1 idiot
I forgot he was from Queens. I have yet to go down the list of St. John's players that made it to the NBA. Now, that would probably get my head chopped off and hung on a pole on the Van Wyck Expressway. 
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