B/R NBA 200: Ranking the Top Bigs Heading into 2016-17

September 14th, 2016 by Adam Fromal Leave a reply »
Bigs won't dominate 2016-17 NBA highlight reels quite as frequently as guards, but they'll still dominate games. The Association's versatile crop of frontcourt studs is now capable of thriving on both the interior and perimeter, showing off skills previously reserved for littles.

Draymond Green is coming off a year in which he helped lead the Golden State Warriors to a record-setting 73 wins during the regular season, but is he individually superior to Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins and Paul Millsap? How high can the frontcourt trio of Nikola Jokic, Kristaps Porzingis and Karl-Anthony Towns rise after their respective rookie campaigns?

We aren't projecting how well everyone will perform during the upcoming season, but where they are as 2016-17 gets underway. Thus, we use the end of last season as our starting point. Not every player starts out on level footing, either; The NBA 200 metric identifies those who performed best during the 2015-16 regular campaign*. Potential doesn't matter, and neither does reputation or playoff performance (too variable)—it's all about what happened this past regular season only.

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