Most Overrated NBA Player?

To answer your qustion, he is a guy who can still average 30-35 ppg with a running mate in Smush Parker and Kwame Brown.

And do what..the same thing Allen Iverson did...

If Kobe is...rated (I guess)...does that mean that IVerson is too...

How about Baron Davis?

Sadly, I can apply the same argument to KG and LeBron...I think baron Davis is a bit overrated...DNL is right on about Starbury (although 15 dollar sneakers are pretty friggin' cool)...VC is a dunk artist but really not all that great...bill simmons will claim that Nowitski may in fact be overrated...Ben Wallace, especially this year appears to be overrated

(except for TD) who is rated "JUST_RIGHT" just right OOOOOH!!! I know who it is BEN WALLACE!!!! Definitely Ben Wallace!!!

Bitter manny? I'll agree with Ginobili, who btw, Horry said was the best european player in the NBA a few years ago (which would be fine, if Ginobili was european)... But overall, none of those players is considerably rated...only known because they play on championship teams...sorta like how people know who shane spencer or ricky ledee was...

For all his crap though...he's still big shot rob...

And for all his crap (maybe because of all his crap), Bowen is still the best one-on-one defender in the NBA. You know who's overrated, though? Carmelo Anthony. Joe Johnson. Ray Allen.

Yes, Yes, No...Ray Allen doesn't miss...He really shouldn't be the centerpiece of a team (sorta like Baron Davis), but he's nasty... Bowen is dirty...but he'll shut anyone down any way he can...if its grit and dirt he gives you, take it

Well, I agree, as a one-dimensional shooter Allen is great. But you said it yourself, he shouldn't be the centerpiece of a team... and yet people view him that way. To me, that's what overrated means.

I think most of us sympathize because he was good and his body has basically broken down...and at this point no one really counts on him...

At least Hill was a legitimately great player before his injuries, unlike some of the other guys mentioned above.

GREAT or really good?

Okay, fine, "really good". :) He could do a little of everything (except shoot threes) -- kind of like a poor man's proto-LeBron...

he still went to Duke (tee-hee)

True, but he's probably the only Duke player ever that I don't hate with a passion...

Elton Brand is tolerable... and does your disdain extend to guys who "would have" been Dukies? Kobe Bryant, Shaun Livingston, Dwight Howard?

Check that, I actually like Elton Brand's game, I just forgot he went to Duke. And, no, I don't hate guys that "almost" went to Duke, because otherwise I'd be hating practically every prep-to-pros guy that came down the pipe over the last decade...

I would absolutly use 'great' to discribe Grant Hill's first 6-7 years in the league. His stats were akin to Kobe's but he played a much sounder game. Its too bad the next two best players on those Piston teams were Lindsey Hunter and an aged Joe Dumars. With a center and a point guard... if only...

Really?

son of a... I thought I said Ben Wallace too. WAAAAAY overrated. Overpaid and got his team to lose to the team he was brought in to help tip the scales and surpass. You can't say his offensive doesn't hurt his overall stock. Plus he's a putrid free throw shooter.

I will never forgive him as the escalator in the "Incident". If he doesn't throw the towel (or at least get tossed right there) no one throws anything else at Artest. Wallace started the whole ordeal into an incident. Artest backed away. Ben Wallace is a punk and kharma sent him to rot the Bulls franchise... tick tick tick

He's on the serious downside of his career and will handcuff the Bulls until Isaih Thomas trades for him....

No way. He made McHale look good. McHale may be the most overrated player ever, though.

Hard to be overrated when Magic Johnson (who was the best BASKETBALL player ever - he even beat the Globetrotters) calls you the best basketball player ever...

Magic was just trying to be polite. Don't forget he and Bird together made a mint off that "rivalry" b.s. Blacks and whites working together in harmony. Brings a tear to my eye.

JJ Redick is hot!

Kobe Bryant has played with one particular talent that is the only reason he went to the finals...Dwayne Wade will agree with this

I'm not sure what AI's "full potential" within a team context would be, though. His value isn't in shooting efficiently, or distributing, or playing defense (except for the steals)... It's in his unique ability to create loads of shots and to carry an offense without totally destroying it. If anybody else tries to shoot as much as him, they're horrible, but AI's gift is that he can maintain a decent level of efficiency despite the huge workload, taking pressure off of his teammates and allowing them to take better shots. But I'm not sure he'd be more efficient if he took fewer shots, and I know the Sixers teams he was on would suffer if he took fewer shots because he was surrounded by a bunch of guys who couldn't create shots. I guess my point is that he kind of reached his potential when he led that team to the Finals in 2001 -- it was a team perfectly designed to suit his game (a bunch of guys that worried about defense and let AI carry the burden on offense). And I'm not sure AI could function any better if he shared the ball more in a team effort.

My sentiment is that a mutumbo in his prime probably would have made AI a champ...that and not playing shaq...

Yeah, the Shaq thing was a problem.

AI missed practice. That must have been the problem.

Bitter much about his defection, CPCP?

LeBron James is only 22 years old and carried the Cavaliers on his back into the NBA Finals. If that is the definition of "overrated", than yeah I guess he is.

Amen, Tyrone.