ESPN: Ranking every NBA player (401-500)

[w0bbie]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/6862838/nba-player-rankings-401-500

#494 - Jerel McNeal
#442 - Jimmy Butler
#409 - Lazar Hayward

ESPN.com and the TrueHoop Network are ranking every NBA player -- and counting them down on Twitter (@NBAonESPN), from No. 500 to No. 1. As the rankings are announced, you can also find them here on the pages of ESPN.com.

We are starting by running through the "first" 100 players on August 15, and thereafter we will count them down one at a time, 10 per day, on Twitter, for several weeks.


What is #NBArank?

#NBArank is the Twitter hashtag to use if you want to get involved in the discussion or just follow along.

You can also follow along here: @NBAonESPN

How did we rank the players?

We asked 91 experts to rate each player on a 0-to-10 scale, in terms of "the current quality of each player."

Here is the full list of voters from ESPN.com, the TrueHoop Network, TrueHoop TV, Daily Dime Live, ESPN TV, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, espnW, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Insider, ESPN Fantasy, ESPN Games, ESPN Dallas, ESPN Los Angeles, ESPN Chicago, ESPN New York, ESPN Stats & Information, ESPN Topics and ESPN Analytics.

To decide which players to rank, we started with every player who played in the league last season, and then eliminated players who had signed overseas contracts that made them ineligible for the 2011-12 NBA season. Then we added the 60 members of the 2011 draft class, eliminating those not likely to play in the NBA by 2012. That left 500 players, according to our best information as of August 15.

[BubbaWilliams]

There is no way Brian Scalabrine is not as good as Iman Shumpert

[dwaderoy2004]

will be interesting to see if Wes cracks the top 100.  I would think he'd be around that area somewhere...

[PaintTouches]

will be interesting to see if Wes cracks the top 100.  I would think he'd be around that area somewhere...

He was ranked 88 by SI, http://nba-point-forward.si.com/2011/08/02/top-100-nba-players-pt-ii-nos-81-90/ so I would he would crack the top 100 for ESPN as well.

[w0bbie]

#363 - Steve Novak

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/6865531/nba-player-rankings-351-400