Ranking the NBA's fifty greatest players of
all-time
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In the summer of 1996 the NBA commissioned the nation’s most eminent and revered sports journalists and historians to determine the fifty greatest players of all time. That great commission was intended to
identify not just the most skillful player, but also the player with the most heart, courage and determination to win. The player with the greatest leadership qualities, and also the ability to singlehandedly take on an opponent if all other elements of his team are non-performing.
However, having chosen the top fifty which of them are the greatest player
to ever play in the NBA. Read more here...
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PER Sports issues its 2008 end-of-season NBA
awards
Source: NBA.com
At the close of the NBA's regular season we hand out our awards for
League MVP, Top Individual Player, Top Offensive Player, Top
Defensive Player and Rookie of the Year. Where will Kobe Bryant
finish in the MVP race?
Click here to read the full article.
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Click here
to see the PER Sports ranking of the top 100 players in the history
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Will Wilt Chamberlain Be Denied Number 3, Again?
In 1973 as he took the floor of the celebrated Los Angeles Forum to compete in his sixth and final NBA Finals Wilt Chamberlain had a funny feeling in the depths of his stomach. He had come through the golden decade of the ‘60’s as undoubtedly the greatest offensive player professional basketball has ever seen, only to be turned back time and again (7 times in fact) by Bill Russell’s Boston Celtics. And if Russell’s insurmountable dominance wasn’t challenging enough, he now had to deal with a determined Knickerbocker by the name of Willis Reed after Russell’s retirement.
Because the 1973 Finals was going to be his last in the NBA Wilt wanted to augment his two NBA championships and bow out as the champion he always knew he was. But in a stark reversal of fortunes of the ‘72 championship series his Lakers team was
emphatically brushed aside four games to one by the Knicks, and so ended his dreams of a third NBA ring. Wilt was denied number 3 the first time around. Read more... |
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Revolutionary New Basketball Analysis
The Basketball Performance Efficiency Rating
(PER) system evaluates players in nine statistical categories:
points scored, rebounds collected, assists distributed, steals,
blocks, turnovers, two-point shooting percentage, three-point
shooting percentage, and free throw percentage.
The nine categories are then appropriately
weighted to reflect their overall contribution to basketball
success.
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Top Performers for the 2007/08 regular
season
(Through all games)
| Individual
Performance |
| Rank |
Players |
Team |
PER |
| 1 |
LeBron James |
CLE |
112.82 |
| 2 |
Chris Paul |
NOH |
111.22 |
| 3 |
Amare Stoudemire |
PHX |
109.14 |
| 4 |
Kobe Bryant |
LAL |
106.18 |
| 5 |
Steve Nash |
PHX |
104.25 |
LeBron
James led the individual PER analysis as the best
individual talent within the NBA.
| Overall
MVP Performance |
| Rank |
Players |
Team |
MVPER |
| 1 |
Chris Paul |
NOH |
170.90 |
| 2 |
Amare Stoudemire |
PHX |
165.56 |
| 3 |
Kobe Bryant |
LAL |
165.22 |
| 4 |
LeBron James |
CLE |
162.36 |
| 5 |
Steve Nash |
PHX |
159.51 |
Chris Paul came on
strong to lead the MVP analysis after leading his team to
the second-best record in
the Western Conference, and ranking second in the individual
performance analysis.
The complete 2007/08 NBA Analysis
2007/08 PER Sports mid-season awards
The top MVP performers since 1996
The ranking of the All-Time Greatest Players
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