David Aldrich NBA.com article: Some players (MELO!!) are upset about their player ranking

LOL David Aldrich has been busy today

http://www.nba.com/article/2017/09/...rs-uproar-over-rankings-lists-carmelo-anthony

Nothing fake about some players' unrest over player-ranking lists
Where one ranks on preseason lists truly does rile up some NBA superstars

David Aldridge TNT Analyst
@daldridgetntArchive
Sep 18, 2017 11:14 AM ET

Let’s say you’re a fairly competent dentist, in a fairly large city.

You went to dental school, did your residency, paid your dues. In time, you were able to open your own practice and grow your business to the point where you become profitable. People give you, mainly, solid to occasionally glowing reviews. You get referrals. Business is good.

And then, Dentist Magazine (I have no idea if there really is a Dentist Magazine) decides it’s going to rank the top 50 dentists in your hometown. The magazine comes out. Someone tells you about it. You don’t really care about it, because you’re actually, you know, dentist-ing. But you see a copy at the newsstand on the way to the subway and you thumb through it.

And you see you’re ranked … 37th.

Now, logically speaking, 37th isn’t bad. In fact, it’s very good, when you consider that there are hundreds of dentists in your town that didn’t even make the top 50. But you look through the list, and you can’t help it. I’m better than Johnson! He can’t fill a cavity like I can! And … Anderson? She has her assistant do all the work, her hands shake so bad! And I’d love to see Simmons do a root canal in less than three hours!! This is bogus!

But, your spouse says at home, the people at Dentist Magazine aren’t dentists. They just cover the industry. You shouldn’t take this so personally. They’re just writers. They don’t know what it takes to be a good dentist, to start a practice, or to make it profitable. Why do you care?

It’s hard to understand.

Why does Carmelo Anthony give the first damn that ESPN.com, in some click-bait collection on its website, has him 64th among NBA players in its ranking of the top 100 players, one spot below Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball? Why does any NBA player care where he’s ranked in SportsIllustrated.com’s top 100 list (SI is a corporate cousin of ours). Why do players get upset if they get a low NBA 2K rating (full disclosure: I’m in the video game, and they paid me for my time). It just, on first blush, makes no sense.

Anthony took to Twitter to express his anger, telling ESPN, “Don’t be so Blatant with the disrespect.” This, of course, drove people to the website, where they clicked on the story, thus helping ESPN drive more traffic to its site, and giving the network all kinds of fodder for its various shows where people disagree with one another about whatever’s going on that day.
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