To project the NBA's top to Madden NFL 18 Coins 99 players in 2015, it's important to consider which players are considered the NBA's top players now. With that information, you can look at where they were in their careers five years ago and see what trends appear.While there are many different ways to compile such a list statistically, even the most advanced statistics can't fully capture a player's value. So for our purposes, the Top 100 lists painstakingly made by SI's
Zach Lowe and the CBS Sports basketball team over the Cheap NFL 18 Coins summer are more than adequate a data set.A total of 112 players appear on one of the two lists, and while there might be room for objections on the margins, it's hard to argue that those 112 aren't a representative sample of the NBA's elite. It's certainly a big enough sample for some extremely interesting trends to emerge:
Basketball, with an arduous 82-game season and its emphasis on rapid cuts and lateral mobility, is a young man's game. Weighted by minutes played, the average age of an NBA player was 26.6 years old. That's true even amongst the game's elite, as the average age of the top 112 players is 26.35. Attributing the success of older teams like the Dallas Mavericks and the Boston
Celtics to age is a classic case of confusing causation with correlation: they are good not because of their age, but because it takes an incredible amount of talent to stay in the league for over a decade.There were only 17 players among the top 112 who were 32 or older last season. Twelve had made an All-NBA team before. Some -- Kobe, Dirk, Duncan -- remained All-Star level players, but [
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