Heading into the 2016-17 NBA season, here’s a look at player rankings for the top 10 power forwards in the league.
With the 2016-17 NBA season one day away, all the summer chatter about the draft, free agency, trades and preseason expectations is ready to give way to actual basketball. Once the new season tips off Tuesday evening, the players get to do all the talking.
With another day or so to speculate, however, there’s still plenty to evaluate after another summer full of player movement. From offseason grades to season previews, there’s been plenty to analyze, but what about some good old fashioned player rankings?
Player rankings are always subjective, and that makes them open to an awful lot of scrutiny, debate and differing opinions.
There are a ton of factors to take into account, including stats, advanced stats, individual skills, defense, team success, value to a team, upside, injury history, projections for the upcoming season, how they’ll fit in a new role or on a new team…the list goes on and on.
In an attempt to make sense of that myriad of judging standards, it’s time to take a look at the 10 best players in the NBA at each position. Today, we move on to the 10 best power forwards in the league. (For our purposes, we tried to not include small forwards like Carmelo Anthony or Danilo Gallinari who sometimes function as small-ball 4s).
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Honorable Mentions: Serge Ibaka, Jabari Parker, Tobias Harris, Ryan Anderson, Aaron Gordon, Nerlens Noel, Julius Randle, Zach Randolph