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  <title>SI Players NBA Poll: Which NBA player thinks he's a lot better than he really is?</title>
  <published-at type="datetime">2009-02-04T09:19:22-05:00</published-at>
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          <created-at>2009-02-07T14:41:55-05:00</created-at>
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          <body>Lebron is the best player by far in the NBA  for the last 3 years he can get to the nba finals or conference finals at worsed with a bunch of scrubs, kobe couldnt even get out the first round with some ok players and 2 or 3 scrubs, lebron has the most impressive stat line pts rbs and ast for hes career over any other active player and he can do it with out thinking me me me on the court,TO HELL WITH IT! YOU CAN PUT KOBE IN HE OVERRATED LIST TOO!!...LOL</body>
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        <created-at>2009-02-20T13:51:38-05:00</created-at>
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        <quoted-text>Lebron is the best player by far in the NBA  for the last 3 years he can get to the nba finals or conference finals at worsed with a bunch of scrubs, kobe couldnt even get out the first round with some ok players and 2 or 3 scrubs, lebron has the most impressive stat line pts rbs and ast for hes career over any other active player and he can do it with out thinking me me me on the court,TO HELL WITH IT! YOU CAN PUT KOBE IN HE OVERRATED LIST TOO!!...LOL</quoted-text>
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        <body>This isn't true.  LeBron was not in the Conf. Fin. 3 years ago... just 2nd round!  But still he is not BY FAR the best player in the NBA.  That title belongs to one Kobe Bryant!!!</body>
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        <created-at>2009-02-20T10:19:15-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>David Stern....</body>
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        <created-at>2009-02-19T18:32:38-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>might as well keep this going</body>
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        <created-at>2009-02-19T18:32:27-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>page 6</body>
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        <created-at>2009-02-19T18:32:19-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>oh wow, stupid delay, now i look like a fool, thats alright.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-02-19T18:32:03-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>where did my comment go?</body>
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        <created-at>2009-02-19T18:31:57-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>where did my comment go?</body>
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        <created-at>2009-02-19T18:31:30-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>Yeah I spoke with Deshawn Stevenson when he was in Utah and it was pretty much the same guy then, thought he was awesome until Hall of Famer in Malone and Stockton put him in his place and Sloan made sure to get him dealt after 4 dissappointing seasons.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-02-19T18:10:08-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>2009 Most Overrated/Overpaid players

1- Stephon Marbury- 20 million salary 2009. One word- Garbage always has been always will be.
2- Jermaine O???Neal- 21 million salary for 2009- 13.5 points per game, 6.9 rebounds per game. Down from past 5 years. Garbage.
3- Steve Francis- 19 million salary for 2009- NO P/T because of garbage.
4- Shawn Marion- 17 million salary for 2009-12 points, 8 rebounds, per game- Down from past 5 years. Garbage
5- Ben Wallace- 14 million salary for 2009- 3.1 points, 6.7 rebounds, per game- Down from past two years. Garbage

The other 5 that were mentioned also are very much overrated but they are also irrelevant.</body>
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        <body>The whole point of this poll was for the players to tell you something you don't know about the attitudes of other players in the league. Disagreeing with the results of this poll is stupid. It's like overhearing politician A talking poorly about his coworker, politician B, and then disagreeing with politician A because you saw politician B on TV one time.</body>
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  <body>&lt;div class=&quot;photo_container image_right&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/22701/kendrick.perkins.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kendrick&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align:right;&quot;&gt;Kendrick Perkins (Elsa/Getty Images)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which NBA player thinks he's a lot better than he really is?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kendrick Perkins&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Celtics &lt;/em&gt;C&lt;em&gt;.....&lt;/em&gt;8%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DeShawn Stevenson&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Wizards &lt;/em&gt;G&lt;em&gt;.....&lt;/em&gt;8%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rashad McCants&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;T-Wolves &lt;/em&gt;G&lt;em&gt;.....&lt;/em&gt;5%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dahntay Jones&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Nuggets &lt;/em&gt;G&lt;em&gt;......&lt;/em&gt;5%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Damon Jones&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Bucks &lt;/em&gt;G&lt;em&gt;.....&lt;/em&gt;5%&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FAST FACTS: Dahntay Jones (No. 20 pick, Celtics) and Perkins (No. 27,  Grizzlies) were drafted in 2003 and immediately traded for each other....  Perkins and Stevenson went from high school to the NBA.... Upon signing with  the Cavaliers in '05 Damon Jones said, &quot;I think I'm one of the top five shooters  in the world.&quot; He averaged 6.6 points over three seasons before being dealt to  the Bucks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[Based on a survey of 190 NBA players]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is an NBA poll from the February 9, 2009 issue of &lt;em&gt;Sports  Illustrated&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's your take on this poll?&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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