One side-effect of the super-team trend in the National Basketball Association is that the league’s best players don’t always rank at the top of the stats charts.
To try and get around that, a lot of NBA fans and media will use different advanced statistics models that will use efficiency ratings and per minute measurements (Among many other more complicated factors) to evaluate the impact of players on their team. These models won’t always agree with conventional beliefs and will often generate a lot of discussion.
Bleacher Report recently posted an article using a combination of four different metric styles to create their own ranking. In that list, Kevin Durant was ranked 10th and Klay Thompson’s father was not happy about it.
The weirdest part about this is that he seems to be confusing Bleacher Report’s ranking with the Metric System that countries like Canada and Britain use as a standardized system for measuring distances, weights and many other numbers.
We’re not sure if that was a joke, but we’re pretty sure it didn’t matter if the shot distances were measured in feet or metres.
On the other hand, maybe that’s why the Raptors don’t get as much attention as they should in the States. The Raptors measure things in metres and grams, so perhaps American media organizations have punished them for that and are hesitant to give them a fighter’s chance in the 2018 NBA Playoffs.
