Rank the 3 best players in the Eastern Conference *not including Lebron*

[Milbuck]

Who do you think are the 3 next best players after Lebron in the Eastern conference, and how would you rank them?

[Real14]

Healthy Melo
Irving
Wall/Wade

[Nowitness]

Kyrie
Love
Smith

No excuses.

[Milbuck]

Healthy Melo
Irving
Wall/Wade
:lol

[RightToCensor]

Based on Season:

Kyrie Irving
John Wall
Jeff Teague

Based on Talent:

Kevin Love
Carmelo Anthony
John Wall

[Connor B]

Kyrie Irving
Dwyane Wade
Probably Lowry/Wall

[L.A.Showtime]

Wade
Irving
Love
(Bosh when healthy)

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Galloway
Larkin
Amoudson:D

[imdaman99]

Wade
Irving
Love
(Bosh when healthy)
It's debatable, but it's probably this :lol

[ISHGoat]

Carmelo, Wall, Lowry

[oarabbus]

Holy shit, the East sucks.

Wall is not a top 3 PG out West (Curry, Westbrook, CP3).
Healthy Carmelo is barely a top 3 SF out West.
Lowry is not a top 3 PG out West.
Love is not a top 3 PF out West (not this season).

[SugarHill]

Holy shit, the East sucks.

Wall is not a top 3 PG out West (Curry, Westbrook, CP3).
Healthy Carmelo is barely a top 3 SF out West.
Lowry is not a top 3 PG out West.
Love is not a top 3 PF out West (not this season).

fvcking what? :biggums:

[AkronAngel]

Carmelo, Wall, Lowry

I agree with this. Paul George too before his injury.

[Fudge]

Irving
Wade
Wall

[Ray22]

Holy shit, the East sucks.


:lol Indeed. Anyway:


1) Healthy Wade.
2) Healthy Anthony.
3) Healthy Rose.

[Budadiiii]

I don't even watch basketball but:

Irving
Love
Wade
Bosh


My instincts. I know LeBron is always surrounded by the best players in his conference, and everyone seems to agree with most of these guys.

Puts LeBrons career in perspective for me. He's had an insane amount of help, played in an awful conference with all the best players on his team, and he's been lucky with other star players being injured...

Yet he still has an incredibly hard time winning the finals... you just can't trust the guy, very weak competitor.

[beastee]

:lol Indeed. Anyway:


1) Healthy Wade.
2) Healthy Anthony.
3) Healthy Rose.
This...but maybe Wall has overtaken rose. and Paul George when healthy is definitely on this list.

[Papaya Petee]

1.) John Wall
2.) Healthy Wade
3.) Kyrie

[AkronAngel]

This...but maybe Wall has overtaken rose. and Paul George when healthy is definitely on this list.

Agreed. Rose was healthy long enough this season for us to see he is not the 2011 Rose.

[oarabbus]

fvcking what? :biggums:

Healthy Durant
Kawhi Leonard
Healthy Melo

Barely top 3.

[Papaya Petee]

Healthy Durant
Kawhi Leonard
Healthy Melo

Barely top 3.
:roll: :roll:

A 13-16 PPG guy with great defense who was lucky enough to get drafted to play with Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili and have Pop as a coach vs a player who has been scoring 22-30 PPG for 12 years now.

[Relinquish]

:lol Indeed. Anyway:


1) Healthy Wade.
2) Healthy Anthony.
3) Healthy Rose.

There's no such thing.

[SugarHill]

Healthy Durant
Kawhi Leonard
Healthy Melo

Barely top 3.

Melo was always in that top 3 with Durant and LeBron. Why has this dude been so underrated that Kawhi Leonard is considered better?

[ArbitraryWater]

Sorry there is no way I want Melo over Kawhi on a functioning winning basketball team.. his ballstopping would hurt the Spurs, tbh.

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

im laughin at these names then i laughed even harder when i realized yall wasnt playin
least finna least

[Joyner82reload]

Melo was always in that top 3 with Durant and LeBron. Why has this dude been so underrated that Kawhi Leonard is considered better?

Don't ever put Melo in the same sentence as LeBron & Durant. Those are 2 of the greatest talents to ever step on the floor, Melo is a fat chucker that is a borderline cancer.

[Genaro]

Why everyone forgot Paul George?

Paul George
Wade
Kyrie

Then Wall, Melo, Bosh and Love.

[Legends66NBA7]

Are we talking about best players THIS season or best players when healthy ?

Because if it's this season, you have to give Pau Gasol (a player I didn't see get a vote) a lot of consideration.

If it's just best players when healthy, then yeah... Paul George, Carmelo Anthony, and then I might have to give it more thought on the 3rd player.

EDIT - Forgot about healthy Wade. Rest can be debated.

[JebronLames]

Whiteside
Bosh
Dragic

[Milbuck]

Interesting how Melo the cancerous loser won 54 games and was 3rd in MVP voting in 2013 on a Mike Woodson-coached team where his 2nd and 3rd options were JR Smith and Raymond Felton.

[UK2K]

Healthy George
Healthy Wade
Healthy Anthony

[FatComputerNerd]

Mozgov
Smith
Shumpert

[J Shuttlesworth]

Healthy George
Healthy Wade
Healthy Anthony
.

Maybe healthy Rose instead of Melo, but we haven't seen healthy Rose in 3 years

[SamuraiSWISH]

Cavalier players and John Wall. Wade when healthy.

[houston]

pau gasol
wall
wade

[Doranku]

LeBron has now played alongside the second best player in his conference for 5 (prime) years in a row now. :oldlol:

[kells333]

Look im not melos biggest fan at all but you guys are disrespecting him by putting guys like kyle lowry and jeff teague in front of him. Melo is still the 2nd best player in the east with healthy paul george wade and rose being the only arguements