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Real GM's TnT Board Top 25 Most Valuable Players

1. LeBron James and Kevin Durant








With December 20th here, seems now is as good a time as any for our annual list of players with the most trade value. After this is done we will move on to the annual list of players with the most negative trade value.


Please vote for the player that you think currently has the most trade value and please list a nominee that should be added the voting list. Remember this is trade value, so factors such as salary/contract, age, potential, production, injuries, etc. should all be factored in to your vote.



The current nominees are



Kyrie Irving
Derrick Rose
Carmelo Anthony
Chris Paul
Anthony Davis
James Harden
Russell Westbrook
Blake Griffin
Paul George

V-Anthony Davis- Averaging 19 and 10 on 50% shooting plus 3 blocks and 2 steals a game. Future MVP.

N-Cousins and Drummond

Cousins is the best offensive center in the league. playing decent defense. Drummond is an athletic rebounding monster. And in his second year one of the best finishers in the league.

This round nominate two players to make the voting pool 10 next round.

V: George
N: Lillard

Phew, thought I missed 2 somehow for a minute:
V: George
N: Curry and Lillard

whatchaknow wrote:V: George
N: Lillard

How is Lillard more valuable than Drummond or Cousins?

Anthony Davis is better than Paul George already.

bondom34 wrote:Phew, thought I missed 2 somehow for a minute:
V: George
N: Curry and Lillard

Curry is an injury waiting to happen. There's no way he's more valuable than Drummond or Cousins.

Vote: Davis. Paul George is tempting, but Davis is quickly becoming an elite big and is just a kid and still on rookie scale. Davis transforms more franchises than Paul does.

Nom: Steph Curry He's a max player on a lot less than a max deal.

V: I suppose I'll go Davis, but I might change my mind several more times before I settle!

N: Dwight and Curry. I know we all hate Dwight now but I think he still belongs on this list, especially with his contract now secured.

TheRobin wrote:

bondom34 wrote:Phew, thought I missed 2 somehow for a minute:
V: George
N: Curry and Lillard

Curry is an injury waiting to happen. There's no way he's more valuable than Drummond or Cousins.

I tak Curry b/c even though there's a risk, he's worth so mch more than he's paid. He took a discounted deal due to injury, and if healthy he's worth twice what he makes almost. I didn't say Cousins b/c he's only kept his cool so far for a quarter of the season. He's got me believing he's easily worth that contract, but not this far up the list. Lillard's on a rookie deal. Davis is at least as much an injury risk as Curry and has currently a shorter career than Curry, so I worry more about injury with him than Curry, plus the fact that bigs who are injured a lot tend to be worse off than guards.

TheRobin wrote:

whatchaknow wrote:V: George
N: Lillard

How is Lillard more valuable than Drummond or Cousins?

Anthony Davis is better than Paul George already.

Well as far as Drummond, he hasn't shown and sort of offensive game besides rebounding and finishing while lillard is a guy who can carry an offense and is tremendous in crunch time while Drummond is a liability. Cousins is more mature this year and he has been a monster but I've seen too many immaturity issues than I'm comfortable with.

I disagree on Davis being better than George. Maybe In the future he will be better but injury concerns are a huge deal when were talking top 3 in trade value. Plus there are so few wing superstars these days that effect the game on both sides of the ball

whatchaknow wrote:

TheRobin wrote:

whatchaknow wrote:V: George
N: Lillard

How is Lillard more valuable than Drummond or Cousins?

Anthony Davis is better than Paul George already.

Well as far as Drummond, he hasn't shown and sort of offensive game besides rebounding and finishing while lillard is a guy who can carry an offense and is tremendous in crunch time while Drummond is a liability. Cousins is more mature this year and he has been a monster but I've seen too many immaturity issues than I'm comfortable with.

I disagree on Davis being better than George. Maybe In the future he will be better but injury concerns are a huge deal when were talking top 3 in trade value. Plus there are so few wing superstars these days that effect the game on both sides of the ball

....wow. PG is not a super star lol. You even said Davis we'll be better in the future. And I'd bet quite a sum of money he will be.

Anthony Davis vs KG and Duncan
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... game::none

He should be a unanimous choice at 3

TheRobin wrote:

whatchaknow wrote:

TheRobin wrote:
How is Lillard more valuable than Drummond or Cousins?

Anthony Davis is better than Paul George already.

Well as far as Drummond, he hasn't shown and sort of offensive game besides rebounding and finishing while lillard is a guy who can carry an offense and is tremendous in crunch time while Drummond is a liability. Cousins is more mature this year and he has been a monster but I've seen too many immaturity issues than I'm comfortable with.

I disagree on Davis being better than George. Maybe In the future he will be better but injury concerns are a huge deal when were talking top 3 in trade value. Plus there are so few wing superstars these days that effect the game on both sides of the ball

....wow. PG is not a super star lol. You even said Davis we'll be better in the future. And I'd bet quite a sum of money he will be.

Anthony Davis vs KG and Duncan
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... game::none

He should be a unanimous choice at 3

I said he may be better in the future, but that he has injury concerns. That's enough to sway the trade value when your talking players this close

whatchaknow wrote:

TheRobin wrote:

whatchaknow wrote:
Well as far as Drummond, he hasn't shown and sort of offensive game besides rebounding and finishing while lillard is a guy who can carry an offense and is tremendous in crunch time while Drummond is a liability. Cousins is more mature this year and he has been a monster but I've seen too many immaturity issues than I'm comfortable with.

I disagree on Davis being better than George. Maybe In the future he will be better but injury concerns are a huge deal when were talking top 3 in trade value. Plus there are so few wing superstars these days that effect the game on both sides of the ball

....wow. PG is not a super star lol. You even said Davis we'll be better in the future. And I'd bet quite a sum of money he will be.

Anthony Davis vs KG and Duncan
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... game::none

He should be a unanimous choice at 3

I said he may be better in the future, but that he has injury concerns. That's enough to sway the trade value when your talking players this close

It's not close. He's substantially better.

Vote Chris Paul

Nominate Steph Curry

I think Paul could win a title as the best player on a lot of teams right now, which is what it's all about - plus his new contract is great for teams. George and Davis are close but their play this season is still over a small sample size.

Curry is a true star and on one of the best contracts

Vote: George

Nominate: Cousins

George is a two way player with no injury history. Getting better every year...

V: CP3

N: Curry and Lillard

What can I say? It's a PG game nowadays...

Not sure who I'm voting yet, but:

Nominate: Dwight and Curry.

Dwight absolutely should be on there.

V: Davis
N: Cousins

Cousins has tremendous potential and is playing well so far this year. Probably best offensive big man. And I think Davis edges our George just because he'll probably end up being the better player, but you never know.

The next 3 should go in some order dwight davis cp3

Vote: Davis - for teams that aren't that close to contending he's #1

Nom: Drummond