Damn ESPN!! Disgusting!

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

^Since I don't follow baseball much, let me ask you, is there a HEAVY east coast bias with them in other sports or is it just with basketball?

[Styles1]

If it makes you feel better, you can always print out the article and use it to the line the bottom of your bird cage.....

Naw, i care for them.

lol... you wouldn't even let your birds shit on it?

[Javier]

Naw. I quote him.

That's where this project comes in. Using both numbers and a healthy dose of opinion, my task today is to rank the top 50 individual NBA Finals performances since the merger. I've included the player efficiency rating (PER) of every player in the top 50 as a guide, but this wasn't my only measuring stick. Basically, everything counts: competition, defense, clutch play, winning, durability ... it all matters.

He doesn't even have that excuse.

He claims everything counts, but you can tell it's heavily influenced by PER alone.

Ok man, but he's supposed to be an NBA expert. So he's supposed to better than that. Putting Wade in top of the list is just incredibly stupid no matter what the criteria was.

He was hired as an advanced stats expert, so he gives his opinion in that perspective.  Obviously, basketball is a bit more trickier than just breaking it down with advance stats.  

[Turf Hitta]

Don't put too much stock into this. It's just his PER system which only takes stats into account. Pretty much anybody who knows anything about basketball knows PER is a highly unreliable and inconsistent way to measure player performance.

[Javier]

^Since I don't follow baseball much, let me ask you, is there a HEAVY east coast bias with them in other sports or is it just with basketball?

It depends on the writer. The writers I listed are very balanced.  Some of the bad writers talk more about the Red Sox or Yankees though, but I don't look into it too deeply since some of them are big fans of those teams so there will be a bias towards that particular team.  And recently the overall baseball coverage has been leaning towards the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry, but again that's understandable since that's basically been one of baseball's highlights in recent years.  A lot of people claim that there is an east coast bias with baseball though, I don't think so.  The show Baseball Tonight comes out around 10pm eastern, I believe.  That's basically about the same most West Coast teams start playing, so the Baseball Tonight crew aren't giving a full recap of those games because they are still in progress lol.  All they do is give quick updates, on either runs or spectacular plays.  

[Tay]

^Since I don't follow baseball much, let me ask you, is there a HEAVY east coast bias with them in other sports or is it just with basketball?

Yes, they are in love with anything to do with the Red Sox and Yankees, and then sometimes give the Cubs a little bit of love. They used to cover Barry Bonds during his home run chase, and would barely mention the Giants games or anything, and gave the Dodgers a little attention because of Joe Torre. That's more of the SportsCenter thing, some of the writers do a good job covering the teams that deserve it.

And that Hollinger guy is in love with that PER stat, and he is swearing that Anthony Randolph from LSU is going to be a MAJOR bust..I might give him a little respect if he is right about that, but he still seems like a douche.

[7even]

Hollinger is all abouth maths... and therefore all about stats, he cares about nothing else.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Hollinger is all abouth maths... and therefore all about stats, he cares about nothing else.

AKA an idiot

[7even]

Bill Simmons has been taking jabs at him for a while  He didn't rank Shane Battier as a top 40 SF, (because of his stats, of course) and Simmons dissed him for that. Then he ranked the 2001 Laker team too low in terms of best NBA teams of all time and Simmons dissed him for that, too. Probably also some other stuff I didn't read.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Bill Simmons has been taking jabs at him for a while  He didn't rank Shane Battier as a top 40 SF, (because of his stats, of course) and Simmons dissed him for that. Then he ranked the 2001 Laker team too low in terms of best NBA teams of all time and Simmons dissed him for that, too. Probably also some other stuff I didn't read.

Simmons is an idiot too...Hollinger makes him look like a genius, though. Hollinger hates anything Laker related, which is also why he ranked the 2001 Laker team so low.

[OG Hack Wilson]

Who the fuck is this journalist named John Hollinger?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2008/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=FinalsPerformances-1

D-Wade ranks #1 in the Greatest NBA Finals Performances Ever. No fucking comment.

the list is definetely biased for recent players but its not bad

[Blow Out the Candle of the Devil]

Bill Simmons has been taking jabs at him for a while  He didn't rank Shane Battier as a top 40 SF, (because of his stats, of course) and Simmons dissed him for that. Then he ranked the 2001 Laker team too low in terms of best NBA teams of all time and Simmons dissed him for that, too. Probably also some other stuff I didn't read.

Simmons is an idiot too...Hollinger makes him look like a genius, though. Hollinger hates anything Laker related, which is also why he ranked the 2001 Laker team so low.

I DUNNO HE RANKED THE 1987 LAKER SQUAD AS THE SECOND BEST FINALS SQUAD EVER. (AND HAD THE 85 SQUAD AT #6)

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Bill Simmons has been taking jabs at him for a while  He didn't rank Shane Battier as a top 40 SF, (because of his stats, of course) and Simmons dissed him for that. Then he ranked the 2001 Laker team too low in terms of best NBA teams of all time and Simmons dissed him for that, too. Probably also some other stuff I didn't read.

Simmons is an idiot too...Hollinger makes him look like a genius, though. Hollinger hates anything Laker related, which is also why he ranked the 2001 Laker team so low.

I DUNNO HE RANKED THE 1987 LAKER SQUAD AS THE SECOND BEST FINALS SQUAD EVER. (AND HAD THE 85 SQUAD AT #6)

Oh, wow...As if he wouldn't have been fired for leaving those teams out. (Nevermind... he's employed by ESPN.)

[Blow Out the Candle of the Devil]

Bill Simmons has been taking jabs at him for a while  He didn't rank Shane Battier as a top 40 SF, (because of his stats, of course) and Simmons dissed him for that. Then he ranked the 2001 Laker team too low in terms of best NBA teams of all time and Simmons dissed him for that, too. Probably also some other stuff I didn't read.

Simmons is an idiot too...Hollinger makes him look like a genius, though. Hollinger hates anything Laker related, which is also why he ranked the 2001 Laker team so low.

I DUNNO HE RANKED THE 1987 LAKER SQUAD AS THE SECOND BEST FINALS SQUAD EVER. (AND HAD THE 85 SQUAD AT #6)

Oh, wow...As if he wouldn't have been fired for leaving those teams out. (Nevermind... he's employed by ESPN.)

YEAH BUT PUTTING WADE'S FINALS PERFORMANCE AT #1 IS FUCKIN WACCCKKKKK!

[OG Hack Wilson]

d-wade is a great player

but seriously, he must be best friends with this guy lol.


he must be in his fav 5