Fuck Yea[h] NBA

Anonymous asked: can you do top 5 overrated players in the nba?

I think Jason Concepcion is correct when he writes at SB Nation:

This myopia drives what is, in my opinion, the greatest rhetorical weakness of hoophead discourse: the use of the terms hype and overrated.

What do hoopheads mean when they say something or someone is overrated? Usually, we think we mean “everyone thinks Player X is better than Player Y but I know that’s false because 100 > 98.” How does the casual NBA fan perceive the same situation? Perhaps as “Player X scores a lot and dresses cool or acts cool or has a cool commercial or comes from a similar neighborhood as me or plays for my local team or played for my alma mater’s team and I don’t really know Player Y though I generally think he’s okay or maybe I saw a YouTube video of him getting dunked on so he sucks.”

I could write a top 5 overrated, and maybe Steven Lebron will, but I don’t have the time and Concepcion is right. Overrated, as a term, is a disservice to casual basketball fans. I’d only piss off my readers if I wrote a list, and I don’t have enough readers to start pissing them off.