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KEVIN DURANT, F, OKLAHOMA CITY: Only guy averaging 30-plus points and has Russell Westbrook back sooner than expected. But that duo cannot average nine turnovers and be a title contender. Betcha wouldn’t have guessed he leads the team in assists. Yup, by one-tenth of a percentage point over Mr. Fashionista. | 5 |
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PAUL GEORGE, G-F, INDIANA: No valid argument can be made to discount winning, and a 9-1 start would not be possible without this All-Star. Did he have a scintillating week? Compared to Durant, no. You go 3-for-14 in a 16-point loss at Chicago and theress a price to pay. Granted, it was his first sub-20 point game. But KD also has only one, mitigated by going 33-plus six times. | 1 |
| 3 | ![Portland Trail Blazers media day 2013]("http://sheridanhoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/POR_Aldridge_LaMarcus-e1384944557808-248x300.jpg) |
LaMARCUS ALDRIDGE, F, PORTLAND: This should be an Aldridge/Damian Lillard/Wes Matthews field entry, but ya gotta winnow the field somehow. Streak of five double-doubles ended in Brooklyn, but he shot 9-for-16 and 9-for-9 from the line. Lillard (20 ppg, 40%) has been lighting it up from 3 but not as bright as Matthews (16.0, 55%). | – |
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TONY PARKER, G, SAN ANTONIO: His .538 shooting doesn’t measure up to LeBron’s .610, but I’ll take 9-1 over 7-3. Throw out his 4-for-14 opener vs. Memphis, and it’d be a closer race. Guards do not usually shoot above .500, but Mr. BleuCheseburger has done it five of the past eight seasons. The most underappreciated player in the NBA – and the world (apologies to Nikola Mirotic). | 5 |
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LeBRON JAMES, F, MIAMI: No MVP rankings should exclude him from the top 5. First to average 25 points and shoot 60 percent in the first 10 games since Shaquille O’Neal in 1995. Charles Barkley was the last non-center to do it through 10 games, in 1989. On pace to increase his FG pct. for seventh straight season. | 4 |
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KEVIN LOVE, F, MINNESOTA: Averaging more points than LeBron, and just one-tenth of a percentage point behind DeAndre Jordan for second place in boards. Can he catch Dwight Howard? Has double-doubles in all but one game. We’re assuming he has gone a calendar year without doing a knuckle push-up. At some point, we will stop calling him a future Laker. But not today. | 2 |
| 7 | ![IND_Hibbert_Roy]("http://sheridanhoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IND_Hibbert_Roy-e1384946116476-198x300.jpg) |
ROY HIBBERT, C, INDIANA: Can I get a finger wag? Averaging 4.3 blocks. Last player to average more than 4 in a season was Dikembe Mutombo in 1995-96. Putting up those totals despite playing less than 31 minutes per night. Bonus points for being a loyal follower of this site. If he throws me an #FF, I can be bribed. | – |
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CHRIS PAUL, G, LA CLIPPERS: Running away with the assists title at 12.1 per game while trailing only Nate Wolters and Steve Blake in assist-to-turnover ratio. But I am not sold on Clips as Final Four material after that costly (especially for me) home loss to Grizzlies. At this point, I like Blazers and Warriors better. | – |
| 9 | ![GSW_Iguodala_Andre]("http://sheridanhoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/GSW_Iguodala_Andre-e1384952832761-229x300.jpg) |
ANDRE IGUODALA, F, GOLDEN STATE: With all due respect to Dubs top scorer Klay Thompson, Iggy is actually shooting better from the arc (.524 to .507), a better defender (you need a guy like him to defend in the playoffs) and the missing link for a team that exceeded expectations last season and will smash them this season. | – |
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ANTHONY DAVIS, C, NEW ORLEANS: Hibbert (and Nik Vucevic) may take offense, but this young fellow is going to be the NBA’s best center by the end of his third season, if not sooner. You know how there is always one team that surges in the second half of the season? I’m taking the Pelicans because of this stud. | – |
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