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Guess the order of ESPN's top ten.
« on: October 14, 2011, 10:31:10 PM »

Offline Celtics18

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http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7094756/nba-player-rankings-16-20

I posted a thread about this in the forum dedicated to Celtics specific news wanting to find out what folks thought about our own guys' respective rankings. 

In this thread, I thought it might be fun to try to guess the order of the ESPN basketball writers' top ten. 

In alphabetical order, here are the players who have not yet appeared on the list: K. Bryant, K. Durant, B. Griffin, D. Howard, L. James, D. Nowitzki, C. Paul, D. Rose, D. Wade, D. Williams.

Feel free to debate whether these are the rightful top ten, and what order you would put them in if you had a vote.  What I'm trying to do, though, is simply to guess what order ESPN will come up with, with no regard to my own personal opinion. 

Here goes:

10. Deron Williams
9.  Blake Griffin
8.  Kobe Bryant
7.  Chris Paul
6.  Dirk Nowitzki
5.  Derrick Rose
4.  Kevin Durant
3.  Dwayne Wade
2.  Dwight Howard
1.  Lebron James
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Re: Guess the order of ESPN's top ten.
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2011, 10:31:31 AM »

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10 Blake
9 Deron
8 Kobe
7 Chris Paul
6 Durant
5 Rose
4 Howard
3 Wade
2 Dirk
1 James

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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2011, 10:49:41 AM »

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1 LeBron
2 Rose
3 Wade
4 Dirk
5 Durant
6 Dwight
7 Kobe
8 Paul
9 Deron
10 Pau
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« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2011, 01:10:56 PM »

Offline nickagneta

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10. Blake Griffin
9. Deron Williams
8. Derrick Rose
7. Chris Paul
6. Kevin Durant
5. Dirk Nowitzski
4. Kobe Bryant
3. Dwyane Wade
2. Dwight Howard
1. Lebron James
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Re: Guess the order of ESPN's top ten.
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2011, 02:16:28 PM »

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1.  Dirk
2.  Lebron + Wade


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Re: Guess the order of ESPN's top ten.
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2011, 04:24:55 PM »

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Lebron
Howard
Wade
Paul
Dirk
Kobe
Durrant
Rose
Williams
Griffin (doesn't belong in the top 10)
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« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2011, 04:53:52 PM »

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Blake Griffin in the top 10?

Utterly ridiculous.  He's good, but not nearly that good.
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Re: Guess the order of ESPN's top ten.
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2011, 05:42:46 PM »

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This is my guess of how ESPN will rank them, not my own opinion.

LeBron
Howard
Wade
Kobe
Paul
Durant
Dirk
Rose
Deron
Blake (he should be more in the 15-20 range imo)
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Re: Guess the order of ESPN's top ten.
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2011, 08:29:08 PM »

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My Guess               Actual

1 ) LeBron          1 ) ?
2 ) Howard         2 ) ?
3 ) Wade             3 ) ? 
4 ) Dirk                4 ) ?
5 ) Durant           5 ) ?
6 ) Paul               6 ) Durant
7 ) Rose              7 ) Kobe
8 ) Kobe              8 ) Rose
9 ) Williams        9 ) Williams
10 ) Griffin          10 ) Griffin
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Re: Guess the order of ESPN's top ten.
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2011, 11:46:43 AM »

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10. Blake Griffin (?)
9. Rose
7 1/2. Paul
7. Williams
6. Kobe Bryant
5. Dirk
4. Kevin Durant
3. Dwight
2. DWade
1. LeBron James

Assuming Kobe's ongoing decline and Dirk's so-far graceful aging.
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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2011, 11:55:45 AM »

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Kobe, Rose, and Griffin were the hardest to rank.  Anything's possible.
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« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2011, 03:26:11 PM »

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10 Blake Griffin
9 Williams
8  Dirk
7 Rose
6 Kobe Bryant
5 Paul
4 Kevin Durant
3 Dwight
2 Lebron James
1 DWade
 

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« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2011, 03:46:20 PM »

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10.  griffin
9.     williams
8.     howard
7.     kobe
6.     wade
5.     paul
4.     james
3.    dirk
2.     rose
1.     durant

this is how i think it should be based on the 10 players left. 
but the voting will probably turn out more like this...

10.williams
9. griffin
8. paul'
7. durant
6. howard
5. dirk
4. rose
3. kobe
2. wade
1. james

and my personal top ten would be totally different from both
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Re: Guess the order of ESPN's top ten.
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2011, 05:42:33 PM »

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Espn's doing it?

1-10 - messiah 
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Re: Guess the order of ESPN's top ten.
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2011, 12:37:40 PM »

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Griffin came in at number ten today.  That puts most of you in the lead, except for me who actually thought ESPN would put him ahead of D. Williams.

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