ESPN #NBARANK Individual Player Rankings 2016-17

[Lupe]

Lowry at 18, right behind John Wall.

At this point Lowry is just being ranked behind Wall out of stupidity or based on anecdotal evidence. Yes, Wall matches up really well with Lowry one on one but their stats are just not even comparable. Wall is inefficient, he's had a negative or mediocre net rating almost every year of his career, never broken .140 WS/48, etc. He gets a lot of assists but also turns it over like a madman and defensively he's a bit overrated.

Wall isn't even better than last year's DeRozan if you're looking at statistical evidence, let alone Kyle.

[S.R.]

Lowry at 18, right behind John Wall.

[Cody73]

SLAM's top 50 list had Lowry @ 21 and DD @ 24.

[The Great One]

I don't agree with that list at all. But it is what it is.

TNT's Inside The NBA is also doing a top 25 players list. It's going to be interesting where they put Lowry and DeRozan.

[golden]

Well DD got ranked 30th by Disney...
But behind Issiah Thomas and CJ McCollum two one season wonders so far...
Hope this pisses him off for the rest of the year...

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page...d-jimmy-butler

#NBArank 21-30

21: Jimmy Butler

22: Al Horford

23: LaMarcus Aldridge

24: DeAndre Jordan

25: Paul Millsap

26: C.J. McCollum

27: Mike Conley

28: Kevin Love

29: Isaiah Thomas

30: DeMar DeRozan

How TF did CJ McCollum get ranked so high so quickly? And Mike Conley is now one of those guys who are perennially underrated to the point that they're now overrated. Horford at 22 is also too high, IMO.

My conspiracy theory is that the powerful player agents have some "influence" into what the reporters write, in return for scoops and access, possibly trying to justify those huge contracts they negotiated for second tier stars.

[Demographic Shift]

Well DD got ranked 30th by Disney...
But behind Issiah Thomas and CJ McCollum two one season wonders so far...
Hope this pisses him off for the rest of the year...

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page...d-jimmy-butler

#NBArank 21-30

21: Jimmy Butler

22: Al Horford

23: LaMarcus Aldridge

24: DeAndre Jordan

25: Paul Millsap

26: C.J. McCollum

27: Mike Conley

28: Kevin Love

29: Isaiah Thomas

30: DeMar DeRozan

[Mess]

He was #LOL

Last year he was #263, 6 spots below Biyombo and 9 spots below James Johnson.

It's a joke.

[KeonClark]

What number was Anthony Bennett this year?

Even as far as meaningless things go, ranking players outside of maybe the top 15-20 is pretty much a waste of time.

He was #LOL

[Demographic Shift]

40-31 done. No sign of DeMar. There may have been some last minute editing in Bristol.

Thats in a way.. to bad... if they rated him 39th...he might have stayed on a run till Christmas...

[Jclaw]

40-31 done. No sign of DeMar. There may have been some last minute editing in Bristol.

[Scraptor]

You know this list is garbage when Eric Gordon is 30 spots above Rudy Gay and Tobias Harris. Brandon Knight, Kenneth Faried, and Zach Randolph are all ahead of them too lol.

[Jclaw]

Do you think they did this before the season started? Are they able to edit it for, I don't know.....say, DeMar?

Edit: Just saw 40-50...no DeMar yet.

[Nilanka]

The best part of the whole article is Enes Kanter's mug shot.

lol, I didn't actually click on the article until I read this. Totally worth it.

[golden]

JV #53
Caroll #77

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page...players-51-100

Carroll still living off his reputation in that last season with the Hawks. Hopefully other NBA GMs view the self-proclaimed JYD 2.0 in the same way (BC: I'm talking to you.)

[S.R.]

JV #53
Caroll #77

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page...players-51-100

The best part of the whole article is Enes Kanter's mug shot.