The Best Players in the NBA

by Nolan Hack (Contributor)

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Rankings/List

June 08, 2008

Joe Johnson , Paul Pierce, Gerald Wallace, LeBron James , Allen Iverson , Rasheed Wallace , Baron Davis , Yao Ming , Elton Brand , Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Kevin Garnett , Chris Paul , Dwight Howard , Amare Stoudemire , Chris Bosh, Deron Williams , Tim Duncan, Al Jefferson, Shawn Marion, Rankings/List

Centers

1. Dwight Howard

2. Yao Ming

3. Al Jefferson

4. Pau Gasol

5. Rasheed Wallace

Power Forwards

1. Tim Duncan

2. Kevin Garnett

3. Amare Stoudemire

4. Chris Bosh

5. Elton Brand


Small Forwards

1. LeBron James

2. Gerald Wallace

3. Shawn Marion

4. Paul Pierce

5. Carmelo Anthony

Shooting Guards


1. Kobe Bryant

2. Allen Iverson

3. Dwayne Wade

4. Tracy McGrady

5. Joe Johnson

Point Guards

1. Chris Paul

2. Steve Nash

3. Baron Davis

4. Gilbert Arenas

5. Deron Williams


TOP 10 Best Players

1. LeBron James

2. Kobe Bryant

3. Allen Iverson

4. Dwyane Wade

5. Chris Paul

6. Dwight Howard

7. Tim Duncan

8. Kevin Garnett

9. Steve Nash

10. Tracy McGrady

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  1. Point guard choices are odd. But I have to ask a question though. Do you mean the best players last season?

    1. no just in general

    2. Okay because I think your point guard choices are kind of odd. The order should go like this: CP3, Deron Williams, Steve Nash or Agent 0, Baron Davis, Chauncey Billups. Other than that I think you're spot on.

  2. Ok.

  3. i do have to agree about kobe being the best Shooting Guard. he is bad ass.

  4. How is Elton Brand or Bosh a better PF than Dirk?

  5. Gerald Wallace is not a good small forward.

  6. so your saying lebron is the best player in the league when he couldnt win one game in the finals. he's third fam. third and thats all ima give you kobe is the best a.i. second.

    1. weird cuz Lebron's Cavs have beaten Kobe's Lakers 4 straight?, and you wanna talk about playoffs Lebron was playing one on 5 vs the Spurs in the finals the only two guys who would had a shot to do better than Lebron in that situation are The GOAT in MJ and Wilt, AI hasnt won a playoff series with denver, come on boy get real, the King reigns supreme

  7. oh yea why the **** you put gerald wallace at the 2nd best SF i can name hundred reasons why he is not. but ima give you 5.
    1. never even grazed or was close to making in all star game
    2. he's never on a winning team.
    3. he doesnt make any players around him better.
    4. no nba gm or any one would pikc him to build a team around and he's wouldnt even be a 1st round draft pikc.
    5. wake up he's poo bruh!

    1. u forgot the fact that at the least, G-dub is at the least the 3rd best defensive player in the NBA (Superman or Joshua Smith, being 1,2, or 3), and Gerald can do something that earlier in his career he couldn't SHOOT, and when he is healthy he's scary, which for at least a quarter of last year he wasn't, Pierce didn't catch fire till the ECF's, Melo dies in the playoffs and all he can do is score and get boards, marion needs a wade or a nash to push him to that elite level, now Wallace on the other hand is probably the only guy in the NBA outside of maybe Joshua Smith that can guard kobe 1-on-1 for 40 plus minutes (last year in LA, Wallace held Kobe to 8-22 shooting and the Bobcats somehow beat LA in LA), now lets see why do people disrespect people they don't know, oh i know, cuz they don't know, wallace plays on a perennially bad team, granted Charlotte is getting better, just like most people didn't know how good Joshua Smith was till the playoffs other than his great dunking ability and athleticism, if Larry Brown can get the Bobcats over the hill than we will all see how good Gerald Wallace is, and well already is, and hopefully for his sake he stays healthy this year

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