Wednesday, October 19, 2011

ESPN.com & TrueHoops NBA Player Rankings

In case you've missed ESPN.com and TrueHoop put out a power ranking of all of 500 players in the National Basketball Association.  91 experts were asked to rank each player on a scale of 0-to-10 based on the players "current quality of the player".  A lot of people have taken to twitter, including former players in the NBA such as Jalen Rose and Rick Fox, to way in on how the feel about the rankings, mainly the top 10.  Below is the top 10 players along with some other big name players and their ranks:

 (Getty Images)


1.  Lebron James
2.  Dwight Howard
3.  Dwyane Wade
4.  Chris Paul
5.  Dirk Nowitzki
6.  Kevin Durant
7.  Kobe Bryant
8.  Derrick Rose
9.  Deron Williams
10.  Blake Griffin

Now I don't know about you, but as much as I'm not a fan of Kobe he would definitely be in my top and I can't believe they have Dwight Howard ranked 2nd and Griffin in the top 10 at all.  Carmelo Anthony (who's ranked #12 and his teammate Amare Stoudemire trailing at #13) is not even in the top 10.  The big name Celtics are not on the list as well with Rajon Rondo being ranked the highest from the team at 17th, Paul Pierce ranked 21st, Kevin Garnett ranked 22nd, and Ray Allen ranked 35th.  Although 2/3 of the Miami Trio was ranked 1st and 3rd, the 3rd player of the trio Chris Bosh is ranked 24th among the list.  The highest paid player in the league Joe Johnson didn't even make the top 20 ranked 32nd and was placed lower on the list than his teammate Al Johnson who was ranked 25th.

What do you think?  Do you agree or disagree with the player rankings?

For the complete list check out the NBA section of ESPN.com

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