They have live ranking currently taking place

According to the first 100

There isn't much difference between Thananis and Cole World

Bonn1997 wrote:It's just showing the bottom 100 right now?
Cole as the 421st best NBA player?!

NBA finals for sure, whoo hoo!!

Bonn1997 wrote:It's not ESPN's favorite players. The people doing the ratings aren't ESPN employees. It's the ratings of NBA writers. ESPN calculated each player's mean rating and listed them up to 500 - the individual writers weren't ranking the players from 1 to 500.

Really most are concerned with

Who falls in the Top 50, 25, 10, 5

I think ESPN last year did a good job

If I recall where they had players ranked

I remember Curry and Westbrook being ranked high

Of course if Melo, Calderon, and THJR land high

ESPN all of a sudden becomes very credible

jrodmc wrote:Yeah, really, why would Melo land high? SMH

Okay maybe your day is going slow motion

I'm speaking in regards to Melo being ranked

15 or higher, I think he's ranked right at 15 this yr

Of course don't go batty if he happens to be ranked

18th and someone like Anthony Davis is ranked 12th

I see several players making major leaps from last yr's spot

jrodmc wrote:Yeah, really, why would Melo land high? SMH

fitzfarm wrote:Espn hates ny sports.. Espn loves bashing them when their bad and ignores them when their good... I think it's something we've all grown accustom to...

These aren't espn's ratings though. They just collected the rankings gathered from People who cover the NBA and listed them up to 500. See Bonn's post above

Knixkik wrote:These rankings will be more of the same. Melo rated lower than he deserves, no one else is the top 100 probably. Melo loses at least 5 slots in the rankings just for playing in Ny. If he was a Bull, he would likely have a much higher rating.

Bonn1997 wrote:

Knixkik wrote:These rankings will be more of the same. Melo rated lower than he deserves, no one else is the top 100 probably. Melo loses at least 5 slots in the rankings just for playing in Ny. If he was a Bull, he would likely have a much higher rating.

ESPN is specifically recruiting Melo haters to do the ratings!

Ha!

I don't really have a problem with his positioning- I think people can make cases for him to be slightly higher or slightly lower. What bothers me is the same thing that bothered me a couple of years ago- they say the reason why Melo is marked down is lack of playoff success and defense, but then they go and rank Kevin Love higher- at least be consistent in your reasoning. It's not so much I think melo is too low, but rather Kevin Love is too high until he;s proved he can be part of a winning team and can win in the playoffs.

Like I said earlier these polls are just favorite players, and I don't have problem with that if they are honest about it- just don't go claiming it's anything other than that.