NBA analyst of our sister site HoopsHype Alberto De Roa put together a new metric he dubbed “Global Rating” that, as he puts it “combines players’ and teams’ statistics to rank players according to their productivity on the court” which also factors in the number of contests a given player has been unavailable for in a specific season (for a more detailed breakdown, check this out).
For the 2022-23 NBA season so far, De Roa has not only used Global Rating to analyze the NBA’s players against one another but also how each draft class remaining in the league stacks up against their peers.
And in the 2007 NBA draft class (of which only five players remain in the league), a current Boston Celtics big man finds himself fourth of the five listed.
That would be veteran forward Al Horford, who checks in as the 179th-best player of the 2022-23 season so far, trailing Kevin Durant (fourth), Mike Conley (27th), and Jeff Green (154th), while being ahead of Thaddeus Young (294th).
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