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RealGM's Top 25 Most Valuable Players:

1. Kevin Durant
2. LeBron James
3. Derrick Rose
4. Blake Griffin
5. Dwight Howard
6. Dwyane Wade
7. Chris Paul
8. Kevin Love
9. Vote Now!
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The Rules:


In a post, please vote for who you believe has the most trade value of the 10 nominees, taking into account everything that goes into determining trade value (skill, talent, attitude, age, contract, injuries, etc). in that same post, list a player you believe should be added to the nominee list. votes will be accepted up to 24hrs from the timestamp of the start of the thread.

example of a voting post:

vote for: Blake Griffin
nominate: Monta Ellis

without further delay, your current nominees:


LaMarcus Aldridge


Carmelo Anthony


Kobe Bryant


Chris Bosh


Andrew Bynum


Dirk Nowitzki


Rajon Rondo


John Wall


Russell Westbrook


Deron Williams


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Vote #8 Results:

Kevin Love 11
LaMarcus Aldridge 9
Kobe Bryant 5
Carmelo Anthony 3

Nominee Results:

Chris Bosh 7 - tie breaker goes to bosh that got to 7 votes first
Kyrie Irving 7
Eric Gordon 5
Andrew Bogut 3
Amare Stoudemire 2
DeMarcus Cousins 1
Al Horford 1
Greg Monroe 1
Ricky Rubio 1

Vote: Kobe Bryant

Nominate: Kyrie Irving

Vote: Andrew Bynum
Nominate: Eric Gordon

Same as last time...

Vote: Aldridge
Nominate: Irving

Aldridge
Irving

aldridge: young, talented big leading a winning team locked up long-term to a below market contract.

irving: strong chance he ends up rookie of the year. what's not to like about a potential 20ppg player in the first year of his first contract?

Vote: LaMarcus Aldridge
Nominate: Eric Gordon

no disrespect to Kobe who still is a top 5 player in the game, but this is based on trade value, and I don't think Kobe would bring the same value as some of the young BIGS. Kobe is a hard person to trade I would think

Same as last 2 times (although I might have slept on Bosh more then needed):

Vote: Kobe
Nominate: Bogut

Horford's injury spared me from considering switching, and I think Wall is showing why putting Kyrie here is just too early.

V: Aldridge

N: Gordon

V: Kobe

N: Cousins

Vote: LaMarcus Aldridge
Nominate: Eric Gordon

Kobe
Bogut

No way I trade Kobe for LMA if I'm Lakers (even if there wasn't a positional problem by getting LMA)

Vote: Kobe
Nominate: Bogut

I promise not to keep harping on this, but I really don't see how guys like Love and Aldridge are worth more than superstars (Kobe, Dirk). Youth isn't THAT important.

Melo
Monroe

Same as last time:

Kobe
Eric Gordon

SamBone wrote:Vote: LaMarcus Aldridge
Nominate: Eric Gordon

Kobe is due to make over $30 mil in 2013-14.

Yes, he brings in a lot of money in LA, but how many teams can afford that big a cap hit, and build a team around him at age 33? I think he has a lot of value to the Lakers, not as much to many other teams.

Melo
Kyrie

shrink wrote:

SamBone wrote:Vote: LaMarcus Aldridge
Nominate: Eric Gordon

Kobe is due to make over $30 mil in 2013-14.

Yes, he brings in a lot of money in LA, but how many teams can afford that big a cap hit, and build a team around him at age 33? I think he has a lot of value to the Lakers, not as much to many other teams.

Disagree. I think if you gave teams the choice between:

a) the superstar who is still one of the top 5-8 players in the game and one of the biggest draws in the world, or
b) a good-to-very-good player and the appropriate amount of capspace

that most teams would still take a) most of the time. That's how I look at it, anyway.

Vote: LaMarcus Aldridge
Nominate: Amare Stoudemire