This is probably one of the worst top 50 list ever created. And I think the above comments have backed up my statement for me.
Yao would be a lot higher if he actually played. Howard was a hell of a lot more dominant than Yao was last season.
A useless subjective ranking. Besides the PER he quoted at the end, there is no objective comparison whatsoever. Yawn.
If the top five isn't LBJ, Durant, Kobe, Wade and DH in some order then the writer doesn't know what he's talking about.
Unless you've been living under a rock Yao Ming hasn't exactly been dominant the past 5 years. Why will the 30 year old guy who broke his foot in the playoffs be ranked higher than the 25 year old beast who led the league in rebounding, blocks and posted one of the top FG% in league? The writer's crazy but he isn't that crazy.
Im sorry but Kobe has to be #2 or #3. On a team with tons of talent, 5 rings, and still hitting clutch shots, he stands above the others. Id almost put him above James. I cant have Durant above Kobe just yet because Kobe still hasnt lost his touch.
Bosh over Gasol? Wade at #1? Beasley at #39? Rondo over Nash, Parker, Rose, Billups, Westbrook? Kevin Durant at #9? Melo over Kobe?
I think this list is riddled with questionable choices, but honestly I have no problems with Kobe not being a top 2 or 3 player. He's a great player and a Hall of Famer, no doubt, but he's also very overrated and has lived off of reputation. There's no way I would even consider him to be on LeBron or Wade's level right now. Kobe doesn't do all the things that they do, his stats are clearly inferior, and he scores less efficiently as well. But he's "clutch" despite missing a the vast majority of his potential game-winning shots over the recent half decade. And he has his rings, which are strangely attributed mostly to his individual greatness, rather than the depth of his team or the fact that the Grizzlies traded him an All-Star partner in exchange for Kwame Brown. It's amazing to me how Kobe went from arguably underrated in the post-Shaq years, when he was tearing it up on the court but was hampered by a lousy team, to overrated now.
