Now that the season over, rank the Top 5 players in the league

[Teanett]

1.lebron
2.durant
3.melo
4.lin
5.novak

[SacJB Shady]

Lebron James (best sf)
Dwight Howard (best C)
Kevin Durant (best shooter, pure scorer)
Kevin Love (best pf)
Dwayne Wade (best sg)

[blacknapalm]

Top 4 has been obvious to me for a while. 5th is less clear to me, though.

1.Lebron James
2.Kevin Durant
3.Chris Paul
4.Dwight Howard
5.Kobe Bryant

Dwight failed to match his great '10-'11 season, otherwise he'd be higher.

i could probably roll with this. if kobe isn't #5, i'd go love or wade. i'm most certainly factoring in wade's bum knee. he's a candidate at that spot though unless he just looks terrible again next season. mind you, terrible by superstar standards...i'm also interested to see how dwight does post back surgery. i think a lot of people are overlooking that. it wasn't just akin to a minor knee scope from what i understand. couple that with his BMI (despite looking ripped) and the fact that he carries most of his weight in the upper body...doesn't point to positive stuff

[Shep]

1. lebron james
2. kevin durant
3. dwyane wade
4. rajon rondo
5. russell westbrook

[RazorBaLade]

including playoffs (so, didnt play at least 1 round of playoffs, disqualified)

Lebron
Durant
Rondo
Kobe
CP3

Not sure if it changes much without playoffs but it'd be hard to figure out where dwight/rose go with their weird years.

[Owl]

LeBron
Howard
Paul-Durant
Whoever (Love maybe?)

Yup. Biggest dickhead in NBA and team cancer BUT top 5 talent/production.

Kobe: demanded a trade, bitched out management, demanded the trade of Bynum for Jason Kidd, was at least partially responsible in the ousting of PJ and Shaq.

LeBron: the decision

Carmelo: the inDecesion (Dwight before Dwight).

And that's just the superstars never mind real cancers or headcases like Stephen Jackson or Cousins.

Just because something is the most recent occurance of something it doesn't make it the worst ever. Historically we can go back to examples of Shaq, MJ, Magic, Jabbar and Wilt being petty, demanding trades etc

Too many people lack perspective and see whatever happened most recently to be "the biggest" or the only instance of poor behaviour, or the last game or series as the only indication of players ability.

[bluechox2]

Lebron
durant
kobe
paul
dwight

[NumberSix]

1. KingJames
2. Dwight Howard
3. Dwyane Wade
4. Rondo
5. CP3

[pauk]

No love for Westbrook? I think he was amazing..

[Fatstogie]

Here would be my top 5...

1. LeBron James
2. Kevin Durant
3. Chris Paul
4. Dwight Howard
5. Kobe Bryant

Dwight would probably be #3 if he didn't hurt his back and if he wasn't such a diva/distraction but because of that I'm going to put him at #4 behind CP3. If we were to take off health concerns or health in general, I would probably put Rose at #4 and push Howard down to #5 but health is a legitimate concern and it is part of the game.

Everyone but dwight. He clogs the paint too much. Dwight is the reason the magic are good and the reason they loose. No one else on the team is allowed to get lay ups or easy shots when dwight is on the floor. So idk if ima put dwight in there or not. Because all the awesomeness on defense? He ruins it on the offensive end.

[Meticode]

LeBron James
Kevin Durant
Dwight Howard
Kobe Bryant
Chris Paul

Kobe would've been 3 for me if he didn't shoot so horribly from the field this year.

[Peteballa]

1. LeBron
2. Durant
3. Kobe
4. CP3 / Rondo
5. Rose / Westbrook

[ShaqAttack3234]

Everyone but dwight. He clogs the paint too much. Dwight is the reason the magic are good and the reason they loose. No one else on the team is allowed to get lay ups or easy shots when dwight is on the floor. So idk if ima put dwight in there or not. Because all the awesomeness on defense? He ruins it on the offensive end.

Nobody else on Orlando gets lay ups because they're one-dimensional players who chuck 3s.

J-Rich amd Redick have no handles, Ryan Anderson's skill set consists entirely of 3 pointers and offensive rebounds, he has no ability when it comes to creating his own shot. Hedo used to get to the rim all the time when he ran screen/rolls with Howard, but he's been lazy since he got that contract, and he often times settles for awkward, off-balance 3s. Jameer is a better finisher than you'd expect for a 5'10" player, and he's shown it, primarily in screen/rolls with Howard, but there's a limit to how much he'll do it at his size. Plus, Jameer is far too poor of a decision maker for you to want him to handle the ball a ton.

Orlando would be so lost at both ends without Howard for an entire season. They'd get the occasional win when they were red hot on 3s, because that's all they do, but because they completely lack guys who can create off the dribble on the perimeter, they'd be far too inconsistent because nobody is going to win consistently with just 3 point shooters.

Howard is their only chance at being a solid offensive team on a consistent basis. Orlando was solid offensively before Howard went down, but they fell off big time late in the season, both offensively and defensively when he went down.

So, you're talking out of your ass again.

[WockaVodka]

1. Lebron
2. Durant
3. Dwight
4. KG
5. CP3

[Foster5k]

Lebron
Durant
Rondo
Carmelo
Kobe