Updated PER Leaderboard

[Man Mountain]

1. LeBron James 36.80
2. Manu Ginobili 34.94
3. Kevin Love 28.85
4. Carmelo Anthony 27.06
5. Kyle Lowry 26.42
6. Blake Griffin 26.32
7. Dwight Howard 26.01
8. Kevin Durant 25.21
9. Daniel Green 25.12
10. Andrew Bynum 25.09


Wow!!

[Fireball]

wow is right ...

[urunobili]

Green top 10? Damn! :wow

[ogait]

Green top 10? Damn! :wow

Small sample, doesn't mean much.
In Manu's case shooting extremely well and averaging only 23 mpg. He's normally a top player in terms of PER, because he does a lot of production without averaging big minutes but that value is way above his normal.
Green only 14,6 mpg is also an early statistic abnormality.
# 3 on the list is Nikola Vucevic with 28,85 PER, which the OP didn't mentioned for some reason, shows is to soon to take any decent conclusion from PER.

[timvp]

Green's averaging 21.2 points and 8.5 rebounds per 40 minutes. Those numbers are disgusting ... but obviously won't last. The only guards to match those stats in NBA history are Oscar Robertson and Sam Jones.

I'd be great if Green could average around 15 points and 6 rebounds per 40 minutes with a PER of around 15. That would make him a longterm rotational swingman in the NBA.

Green is also leading the Spurs in blocks per minute. Not sure if that is good or bad, though . . .

[timtonymanu]

Anyone else put Green as a write-in for the all star ballot?

Obviously he's not an all-star, but it would be funny to see him almost make it like Bowen almost did in 09.

[ogait]

Green is also leading the Spurs in blocks per minute. Not sure if that is good or bad, though . . .

Oh it's definitely bad.