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By Tyler Erzberger
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It's one thing if fans think you're overrated.
What do they know, sitting up in the nosebleeds, chugging a beer, and checking their phone for half the game while you're playing?
Every player, regardless of how many championships you win, will be called overrated at one point or another on social media.
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But when it's your peers, the adversaries you're playing on a night-to-night basis, calling you overrated, that's when it hurts.
And that's what The Athletic set out to do with its annual anonymous NBA player survey: talking to members of the league over the past few months before the postseason to get their unfiltered thoughts on some of their peers and coaches.
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81 players cast their vote on who they believe is the most overrated hooper in the game, and there was a clear winner for this year's top spot: Houston Rockets big man Alperen Şengün of Turkey.
Sengun received 12.3% of the vote, and it didn't help that his Rockets were unceremoniously bounced from the opening round of the Western Conference playoffs by a decimated Los Angeles Lakers squad.
Behind Sengun, however, is the often-criticized Rudy Gobert of the Minnesota Timberwolves with 8.6%. The Frenchman, though, is doing the exact opposite of Sengun, and excelling in the playoffs thus far, stifling Nikola Jokic in the first round against the Denver Nuggets and then playing strong defense on San Antonio Spurs centerpiece Victor Wembanyama in the opening game of the conference semifinals.
Here are the full results from The Athletic's survey.
- Alperen Şengün (Rockets) — 12.3%
- Rudy Gobert (Timberwolves) — 8.6%
- Trae Young (Wizards) — 8.6%
- Karl-Anthony Towns (Knicks) — 7.4%
- Paolo Banchero (Magic) — 4.9%
- Ja Morant (Grizzlies) — 4.9%
- Deni Avdija (Trail Blazers) — 3.7%
- Scottie Barnes (Raptors) — 3.7%
- Luka Dončić (Lakers) — 3.7%
- Pascal Siakam (Pacers) — 3.7%
- Dillon Brooks (Suns) — 2.5%
- Tyrese Haliburton (Pacers) — 2.5%
- Tyler Herro (Heat) — 2.5%
- Evan Mobley (Cavaliers) — 2.5%
- Brandin Podziemski (Warriors) — 2.5%
- Domantas Sabonis (Kings) — 2.5%
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