Mr Matt's Sports Blog

Here are my Top 50 NBA players as of 1/30/2009. I have their name-team-position-age-stats(ppg&rpg for Centers and Forwards, ppg&apg for Guards) and some players have all 3 stats or another tidbit. If they have been injured for an extended period this year ihave it marked-(INJ-number of games missed). The players ranking is dropped a bit if they have been injured usually around the number of game s they missed is about how far they would drop, for instance Carmelo Anthony is ranked 25th, he has missed 15 games so if he were healthy the whole year he probably would have been ranked around number 10. That is why Carlos Boozer is not in the Top 50. Neither is Michael Redd who missed games earlier and is now out fo the year with a torn ACL or Gilbert Arenas who has not played this year. Here's the list: 1. Lebron James-CLV-SF-24-(27.8,7.5,7apg) 2. Kobe Bryant-LAL-SG-30-(26.6, 5.6rpg, 5.2apg, one of league best defenders) 3. Dwayne Wade-MIA-SG-26-(28.5, 7.2, 5rpg) 4. Dwight Howar...

The 2009 NBA all-star team was announced yesterday and as expected there were some guys who did not really deserve to be selected and there were some guys who got snubbed. In my opinion the biggest snubs were Al Jefferson-C/F-MIN (22.7ppg, 10.5rpg), Kevin Durant-SF-OKC (24.8ppg, 6.6rpg) is 6th in the league in scoring, Andre Igoudala-SF-PHL (17.7ppg, 6.2rpg, 5.3apg), and Carmelo Anthony-SF-DEN (21.1ppg, 73rpg) but has missed 15 games due to injury. To me this is saying that these guys are not one of the top 24 players in the NBA, when all 4 could possibly be amongst the top 20 players in the NBA. I realize Jefferson, Igoudala, and Durant play for .500/sub-.500 teams but they were unfairly punished for this. Melo just missed to many games like Deron Williams so I really don't have a problem with him being left off the all-star team. Other players that some may feel got snubbed were Vince Carter, Ray Allen, Mo Williams, and Deron Williams (who missed 13 games due to injury). S...

(5) The Carolina 3/Big East Big 2- Duke, UNC, UConn, Pittsburgh, WFU (4) The Big Conference Leaders/Big East Undefeats- Oklahoma, Lousville, Marquette, Mich. St. (4) Major Mid-Majors- Xavier, Butler, Memphis, St. Mary's/Gonzaga (winner 1/29) (6) Underachiever/Overachiever- Texas (under), Clemson (both, non-conference-over, in conference-under), UCLA (very under), Syracuse (both, non-conference-over, in conference-under), Ariz. St. (under), Washington (over) (5) Battle for Big 10 #2/SEC #1- Purdue, Illinois, Minnesota, Florida, Kentucky (4) Man the Big East is tough- Villanova, Georgetown, ND, WVU Those 28 teams are pretty safe as of right now to make tournament. The next level teams: (3) The ACC bubble- VT, Miami, FSU (4) The Big 12 bubble- Kansas, Mizzou, Baylor, OK St. (4) High RPI not so high record- Tennessee (20-RPI, 12-6), Wisconsin (23-RPI, 11-7), California (34-RPI, 16-4), Ohio St. (30-RPI, 13-5) (10) Mid-major free fall teams, A.K.A. teams that better win t...