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ESPN.com and the TrueHoop Network are ranking every NBA player for the third straight year -- and counting them down on Twitter (@ESPNNBA), from No. 500 to No. 1.

Our players:

453 - V. Kravtsov
445 - Ish Smith
414 - Miles Plumlee
354 - P.J. Tucker
352 - Archie Goodwin
326 - Gerald Green
320 - Kendall Marshall
292 - Channing Frye
285 - Shannon Brown
269 - Alex Len
262 - Marcus Morris

It seems like Malcom Lee and Dionte Christmas are out.

Next: Markieff Morris, Marcin Gortat, Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragic.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/97161 ... gs-251-275

Gerald, Kendall, Shannon, Marcus in front of PJ?

Pshaw...

I saw we were ranked like 27th in the team futures rankings...up from last (or close to it) the year before. We were #1 in the draft asset category.

The most inane drivel in the basketball world is ESPN's (or any other media outlet's) pre-season player rankings. It presumes a precision in rating players that simply does not exist. I guarantee here is no meaningful difference between #250 and #251, yet one is now in the top half of players and the other one is not by virtue of the capricious opinions of ESPN basketball "insiders" who have nothing better to do at this time of the year than engage in this mental masturbation. There is absolutely no logic to a ranking system that incorporates players that have never played one minute of professional basketball (Len and Goodwin) of have been out a year (Frye).

The best way to get rid of this crap is to ignore it.

JDLAW wrote:The most inane drivel in the basketball world is ESPN's (or any other media outlet's) pre-season player rankings. It presumes a precision in rating players that simply does not exist. I guarantee here is no meaningful difference between #250 and #251, yet one is now in the top half of players and the other one is not by virtue of the capricious opinions of ESPN basketball "insiders" who have nothing better to do at this time of the year than engage in this mental masturbation. There is absolutely no logic to a ranking system that incorporates players that have never played one minute of professional basketball (Len and Goodwin) of have been out a year (Frye).

The best way to get rid of this crap is to ignore it.

I agree. And it is even more annoying that they release like 5 players a day throughout the entire summer along with random tweets about the players. I think the rankings are just a combination of a panel giving all players a score from 1-10 or something.

Now Hollinger's offseason individual player analysis was very good and detailed. I think I saw that Kevin Pelton is taking that over, but I haven't checked it out yet.

#107 Goran Dragic (down from #83 in 2012) with 5.58 rating. Basically the same as Lin (#106 - 5.59), Felton (#108 - 5.58) and Calderon (#109 - 5.58).

Only 2 Suns in top100 - Bledsoe and Gortat.

via Pelton's chat:

James (Chitown)
Any of the player rankings stand out so far as too low or too high?


Kevin Pelton
I was pretty floored that Goran Dragic was outside the top 100 and managed to drop despite a very good season as a starter. That seems to be some anti-bad team bias there. Anthony Bennett felt a little high to me. Not unreasonable to suggest he'll be the second most valuable rookie but I don't think he'd be the fourth-best player on the typical team.

These stupid list are dumb.

Everyone knows the top 10-15 guys in the NBA anything outside who cares about ranks