{"id":4690,"date":"2010-04-12T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:14:56","slug":"most-overrated-nba-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2010\/04\/12\/most-overrated-nba-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Most overrated NBA players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year my friend Kamari Stevens wrote an article in the Clarion<\/em> about the five NBA players he hated most with Kobe Bryant\u2019s father, Joe \u201cJellybean\u201d Bryant, topping the list.<\/p>\n

I personally don\u2019t hate any players in the NBA because I feel like hating somebody I\u2019ve only seen on TV is weird (no offense Kamari), but I do think there are some NBA players that are extremely overrated. Here are my top three:<\/p>\n

3. Amare Stoudemire, Phoenix Suns<\/strong><\/p>\n

How does a guy that is supposed to be a scoring machine only have two 40-point games on the season, as of April 8th?<\/p>\n

Stoudemire was a great player five years ago, but he hasn\u2019t been the same since knee surgery following the 2005 season. He doesn\u2019t jump as high, he isn\u2019t as quick and he doesn\u2019t play with the same fire he used to. The only thing about him that\u2019s still the same is his defense. But he never played that very well to begin with.<\/p>\n

2. Joe Johnson, Atlanta Hawks<\/strong><\/p>\n

No doubt, Johnson is a very good ball player, but he is not the superstar ESPN and TNT commentators constantly refer to him as. Johnson\u2019s never won an MVP, never led the league in scoring and has never made it out of the second round of the playoffs during his time in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

There are only a handful of true superstars left in the NBA and Johnson definitely is not one of them.<\/p>\n

1. Carmelo Anthony, Denver Nuggets<\/strong><\/p>\n

No team that features Anthony as their best player will ever win a NBA championship.<\/p>\n

Anthony can definitely put the ball in the basket, but of his top-4 scoring games, two of them were against the mediocre Memphis Grizzlies and one other was against the pathetic New York Knicks. Against the Western Conference\u2019s top-2 teams \u2013 Lakers and Mavericks \u2013 Anthony is only averaging 20.3 points, down more than eight points from his season average.<\/p>\n

That wouldn\u2019t be such a big problem if he had another elite skill, but he doesn\u2019t. Anthony\u2019s only averaged 3.1 assists a game for his career and his defensive impact is negligible at best.<\/p>\n

When Anthony won his gold medal at the Beijing Olympics two years ago he was arguably the third or fourth best player on the team. The same will hold true for any NBA team he wins a championship with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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