Who is the worst player to win each of the major NBA Awards?

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Who is the worst player to win each of the major NBA Awards?: All-NBA team – Stephon Marbury (2000)

An All-NBA team selection is supposed to be one of the highest honors in the league. Unlike an All-Star selection, in theory, it isn’t affected by a player’s popularity. A selection should mean that a player is among the 15 best in the league or at least near that.

Stephon Marbury’s 1999-00 season doesn’t even stand out among all selections, unlike Deandre Jordan’s 2016 season which saw him make an All-NBA first team because of rules concerning the center position. What was so bad about it?

He was putting up empty stats. It isn’t often that I use that epithet, but it certainly applied to Starbury. He was averaging 22.2 PPG on a 31-win New Jersey Nets team.

While more advanced stats painted him as abysmal, even rudimentary ones like Win Shares and Value Over Replacement Player (VORP) showed that there was something wrong. He was 37th in Win Shares and 29th in VORP.

Not only did all the other actual stars rank ahead of him in these stats, but random role players like Bo Outlaw, Terrell Brandon, and Darrell Armstrong outclassed him by these metrics.

It wasn’t even a weak year for guards, Ray Allen, who should have been given the nod, averaged a similar 22 PPG while leading the Milwaukee Bucks to a playoff appearance. It isn’t clear why Marbury was selected either.

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