Wow, can’t believe he held a rookie to 18/13/3 on 63% TS in 28 minutes.

DPOY!

It is amusing that Curry was the 82nd highest paid player in the 2016-2017 season.

It was his 8th year in the league, and he was coming off back to back MVPs.

And he was making less than Miles Plumlee and Brandon Knight.

Poetry in motion, though Knecht is one of the few dudes in the league this would work on.

Everyone seems to rank Wemby based on his future potential rather than how he’s actually played.

The rankings are based on projected value over the upcoming season, so every player’s ranking is based on a forecast.

Past performance is obviously a huge part of a forecast, but (i) he was great last year, and (ii) it’s reasonable to expect significant improvements given his age and experience.

Having him in the 10-15 range isn’t crazy. For example, he was 24th in the league in EPM last year as a rookie. DARKO has him as the 7th best player in the league going forward.

Seems weird to use box score only data for recent years when we have much better data available.

Also seems weird to completely ignore playing time.

Top 5 players in EPM WAR by season:

• 2014: Durant, Curry, LeBron, Paul, Noah
• 2015: Paul, Curry, Harden, Davis, James
• 2016: Curry, LeBron, Westbrook, Paul, Draymond
• 2017: Curry, Gobert, Westbrook, Harden, Kawhi
• 2018: Harden, LeBron, Davis, Lillard, Towns
• 2019: Harden, George, Lillard, Durant, Curry
• 2020: Harden, Giannis, LeBron, Lillard, Gobert
• 2021: Jokic, Lillard, Curry, Gobert, Doncic
• 2022: Jokic, Embiid, Tatum, Giannis, Curry
• 2023: Jokic, Embiid, Tatum, Doncic, SGA
• 2024: SGA, Doncic, Jokic, Giannis, Brunson