Your favorite rankings of NBA players* are turning 11 this season, and it's a good time to revisit what we've learned from the first decade of ESPN's NBArank.
(*Might not actually be everyone's favorite.)
Like all great offseason content, NBArank was conceived out of necessity during the summer the NBA locked out its players, a stalemate that wasn't settled until the day after Thanksgiving, with a shortened 66-game season starting on Christmas Day.
With neither games nor transactions during the extended NBA summer, NBArank wasn't the only player rankings to debut in 2011, but it was the most comprehensive -- both in terms of the amount of players rated and the large panel of voters that benefited from the wisdom-of-the-crowd approach -- and influential.