Bill Simmon's trade value column

[Shakes]

As usual more entertainment than anything else, but Rose made #8 (then again, Simmons has been insanely high on Rose all along), Noah an honourable mention (Rubio made the list ahead of him, it IS Bill Simmons remember).

Probably more likely to star a flame war: Kirk was 20th on the worst contracts, but a couple of his old pals were higher. Noc was 17 and Gordon was 6th. Deng nowhere to be seen. Oh and Thabo made the list of best value contracts.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100208/one

 

[Fred]

Shakes wrote:

As usual more entertainment than anything else, but Rose made #8 (then again, Simmons has been insanely high on Rose all along), Noah an honourable mention (Rubio made the list ahead of him, it IS Bill Simmons remember).

Probably more likely to star a flame war: Kirk was 20th on the worst contracts, but a couple of his old pals were higher. Noc was 17 and Gordon was 6th. Deng nowhere to be seen. Oh and Thabo made the list of best value contracts.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100208/one

Really didn't make much sense when you consider BG was mentioned in this nuggest about S. Curry. It's almost as though he didn't read his own article:

32. Stephen Curry
Even more sophisticated offensively than we hoped. Defensively ... ugh. But offensively? Wow. His January stats (15 games): 19-4-5, 48 percent FG, 48 percent 3FG, 89.2 percent FT. For the season, assuming he bumps his scoring to 17 PPG post-All-Star break and everything else stays the same, he'd finish with 16 PPG, 120-plus 3s and 42 percent shooting from 3. According to Vincent Masi of ESPN Stats & Information, no rookie came close to hitting those numbers except for Ben Gordon in 2004-05 (15.1 PPG, 134 3s, 40.5 percent). Elias reports that 21 players have done the 16-120-42 thing since 2000-01; only three were younger than 26 (Ray Allen, Leandro Barbosa and Gordon), and none were younger than 23.

 

[Shakes]

It's Bill Simmons, you expected an article with no contradictions?