New Orleans Pelicans: 3 Things ESPN’s Top-74 Players Got Wrong

#40 Chris Paul- New Orleans Pelicans/Los Angeles Clippers/Houston Rockets/Oklahoma City Thunder

Chris Paul is another former member of the New Orleans Pelicans who was underrated on this list.

First of all, can we stop with all of the Bob Cousy nonsense? No offense to Cousy and his “fancy” passing, but would he even make the NBA now?

Putting him at #41, just one spot behind Paul, is a joke.

Cousy had great handles and some fun passes, but look at the competition. Chris Paul would run circles around these guys.

The New Orleans Pelicans have two former players in Davis and Paul who might be able to beat Cousy’s Celtics in a 5-on-2 game.

ESPN didn’t know what to do with most of the great point guards, so they just stuck them all together with Isaiah Thomas, Steve Nash, Allen Iverson and John Stockton all going 31-28 respectively.

Surely Paul deserves to be in this grouping of all-time great point guards. He hasn’t won a title, but neither did Nash, Iverson or Stockton.

Paul is 7th on the all-time NBA assists list and climbing, 7th all-time in steals per game, 10th all-time in win shares (ahead of Thomas, Nash and Iverson) and his 18.5 points per game career average puts him among the elite point guards in NBA history.

Considering Paul is still putting up all-NBA numbers, there is no way he should be this low on the list.

The New Orleans Pelicans got very little love on ESPN’s list and the guys they did choose were ranked too low.

In a few years, ESPN may have to amend the list to add a few of the current New Orleans Pelicans, but for now we’ll have to settle for the disrespect to The Big Easy.