[Source](https://theathletic.com/5433545/2024/04/22/nba-player-poll-2024-lebron-jordan-goat-celtics-nuggets-rudy-gobert-timberwolves/)
They surveyed 142 players this time around.
**MVP**
1. Jokic
2. Shai
3. Luka
**Best Defender**
1. Wemby
2. Jrue Holiday
3. Lu Dort
**You’re building a roster from scratch: Who are you going to sign first?**
1. Wemby
2. Jokic
3. Anthony Edwards
**Most Overrated Player**
1. Rudy Gobert
2. Jordan Poole
3. Trae Young
**Most Underrated Player**
1. Derrick White
2. Jalen Williams
3. Jrue Holiday
**Who would you least like to fight?**
1. James Johnson
2. Steven Adams
3. Isaiah Stewart
**Greatest Player of All Time**
1. Michael Jordan
2. Lebron James
3. Kobe Bryant
**Favorite Arena to Play In**
1. MSG
2. TD Garden, Boston
3. Crypto, Los Angeles
by OnlyMamaKnows
44 Comments
Lmao they dont like rudy at all
Remember this when ever anyone says “you didn’t play at the highest level so what could you know”
MJ leading by 3.8% was closer than I would’ve thought tbh
Victor Wembanyama
Dort gonna somehow not be voted to an all defense team again
loved the quotes from these:
on James Johnson
> “He can actually fight,” one player said. “He’s different. He’s crazy. He’s one of those where you won’t win, but if you do win, you’ll have to kill him.”
> Another player said: “Is he still in the league? He’s a triple black belt. I’m not f—ing with James. There’s other guys (where) I might actually lose the fight, but I’m not f—ng with James. He might kick me in my head.”
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on Steven Adams
> “(Adams) knows all the MMA stuff, and he can get you in a chokehold real quick,” one Adams voter said. “He’ll be nice with it, but he’ll choke you out and be like, ‘It’s OK, buddy.’”
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on Nuggets arena:
“Oh my God, that team needs to be moved,” one player said. “The altitude is crazy. I don’t like it at all. Every time I play there, I’m dog-tired.”
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Josh Hart on Coach Spo:
> The Knicks’ Josh Hart, who voted for Spoelstra, insisted that he be quoted on the record for this one.
> “Spo, hands down,” said Hart, who worked with Spoelstra at the FIBA World Cup tournament last summer when the Heat head coach was a Team USA assistant. “Quote me on that one. F–ing love Spo.”
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on Thibs:
> “I’m too old for those practices,” one player said.
> “He’s playing everyone 48 minutes,” another said.
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segment on GOAT results skewing lebron over the years
> Do you think MJ’s getting nervous? King James almost took his (player poll) GOAT crown this time around, and he’ll do just that next year if this voting trend continues.
> In this endless debate, His Airness has experienced serious slippage for the third consecutive poll. Jordan had a huge edge in 2019 (73 percent to LeBron’s 11.9 percent) and was still nearly doubling him in 2023 (58.3 percent to 33 percent). Now the gap is only 3.8 percent.
Derrick White appreciation 💚💚💚
Who is overrating Jordan Poole these days
>**Who would you least like to fight?**
>James Johnson
First off, this is amazing. He played 5 minutes a game this season and is **still** the guy nobody wants to fuck with.
Second, there should be a “Who would you most like to fight?” My guess is Draymond, Trae and DLo are top 3.
Gobert gotta have one of the biggest gaps between accolades and public/player perception ever
The fuck is Paul Pierce doing on the goat list?
Steven Adams is one of those big dudes that just doesn’t want to fight and is generally a nice guy….but I feel like there is a switch that can be flipped and he could rip your arms off like a wookie if you pissed him off
I don’t think people here read, Paul Pierce got a vote for being GOAT as well
They got percentages?
How is Rudy the most overrated player ever? I think he’s one of the most underrated. No one ever talks about him, yet he changes every game he plays.
How many seasons does Rudy have to elevate his team’s defense to #1 in the league before he gets respect? The players’ perception of him really makes you realize how biased they are towards offense. It always seems acceptable to overrate a player with zero defensive skills, but god forbid we have an All-NBA player who doesn’t score 20+ ppg
all this proves is Josh Hart might be the funniest sumbitch in the league. tb some “quote me”
>You’re building a roster from scratch: Who are you going to sign first?
surprised to see luka isn’t in the top 3; he’s also only 25 or so
I love Jaden but the fact that he was voted the 4th best defensive player in the NBA while Gobert was voted 6th just shows how wildly overrated perimeter defense is by NBA players.
Derrick White as most underrated was an easy winner. ESPN didn’t put him in the top 100 but EPM has him as 23rd in the league.
Whichever player named Kirk Cousins as his favorite non-NBA athlete for making $400 million on one playoff win, well done.
Whoever voted Poku as the player they least want to fight is my new favorite troll in the NBA
Dawg who the fuck overrates jordan poole lol
TD Garden as the 2nd favorite arena was kind of surprising
Jordan Poole is openly called trash and still gets votes for most overrated 🤣
“0.1 percent of athletes polled voted Paul George as their GOAT ”
Only 44 players voted voted for someone who got 2+ votes in overrated; Trae Young got 6, Poole got 7, and Rudy got 11 .
Trae overrated? People would have to stop hating on him to even begin the overrated conversation.
the word overrated has lost its meaning these days.
“huh, Rudy’s not even in the top 3?”
*Scrolls*
“Oh.”
>[Dort] guards without fouling — even when at the beginning of the season when the referees were calling fouls.
Then he gets 3 early foul calls last night in a first half where they were calling no fouls on anyone else.
They should have added “**Who would like most like to fight?**” but that probably would overlap heavily with “**Most overrated player**”.
Who is the GOAT:
– Jordan – 46%
– LeBron – 42%
– Kobe – 9.8%
Where are the narratives that players choose Kobe>LeBron coming from?, I see that posted so much
Gobert must’ve shut down a majority of these players lmao
I think everyone in the over/underrated sections are pretty much just rated
NBA players are dumb as shit lol
James Johnson is still in the league??
Kobe at 3. NBA is officially gen z now.
A few random observations
– Lamar Jackson got twice as many votes as anyone else for favorite current athlete not in the NBA.
– Somone voted Paul Pierce as the GOAT
Nice. Very cool
Kobe being #3 should tell you all you need to know.
Johnson was arrested for domestic assault on June 7, 2014, after allegedly hitting and choking his wife, Callie, at their home.[50] On June 30, 2014, the domestic assault case against Johnson was dismissed after his wife failed to appear in court.[51] The couple later divorced, with Callie gaining custody of their son.[52]
[Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Johnson_(basketball,_born_1987))
i will never get over our stadium being called crypto.com arena 🤢
I underestimated NBA players hating ability. Jordan Poole as the second most overrated player this season is a nasty piece of hating.