Players vote for Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton as most overrated basketball insiders
In a poll conducted by players sports90 players selected Tyrese Haliburton as the most overrated player in the NBA.
Halliburton received 14.4% of the vote, while Minnesota Timberwolves Center Rudy Gobert won second place with 10% of the vote. Trae Young ranked third with 8.9% of the vote.
sports Conduct annual anonymous player polls, from voting for MVP, this is the champion of the season, who will become the face of the league in five years from now, and is also the most underrated player in the league, and so on.
It is worth remembering that the votes involving 90 players account for only one-fifth of the league's 450 full-time players.
Is Halliburton really overrated?
The most interesting thing about this vote is that Haliburton only made a star last season.
He impressed him with 20.7 points and 10.4 assists in 2022-23, while shooting nearly 50% from the field. He also shot 40% from three-point shooting and 87.1% from the field from the foul line. Since the Pacers only won 35 games, he didn't get much attention.
Indiana’s star point guards maintained that level last season and at this level, while also helping the Pacers win at a high level. Indiana entered the finals at the end of the season last year as well as the Eastern Conference finals.
This season, they won their fourth seed with a 50-win season, and are all favorites against the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round.
Other results of players' voting
Everyone wants to give an opinion on this year's MVP, and the players are no exception. 155 players voted in this poll, with 56.1% of Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Nikola Jokic, the Denver Nuggets Center, ranked second with 37.4% of the vote.
The Boston Celtics were selected as the most likely to win the championship with 57.7% of the votes. The Thunder (17.5%) and the Cleveland Cavaliers (10.2%) were followed.
Victor Wembanyama received 54.3% of the vote because it is most likely to be the face of the league in five years from now. Following closely behind are Anthony Edwards (13.8%) and Gilgeous-Alexander (10.9%).
When Halliburton was ranked as the highest evaluation, Detroit Pistons guard Cunningham was considered the most underrated. Following closely behind is Boston Celtics defender Derrick White and La Crippers' Norman Powell.
Perhaps in the most interesting polls, Indiana Pacers forward James Johnson was selected as the last player someone wants to fight. He received 63.1% of the vote, followed by Isaiah Stewart (13.5%) and Steven Adams (11.3%).
