I Am a Tyrant

When he first entered the league, he was called the 'next Ben Wallace'; soon, some people started calling him the 'next Dennis Rodman'; after a while, some people identified him as the 'Barkley successor'; not long after, people defaulted to him as 'Karl Malone second'; and later, everyone decided that he was 'the only person who can surpass Magic Johnson'. But when he retired, everyone called him a "tyrant" and thought he was a unique ruler in NBA history.