LaMarcus Aldridge, Carmelo Anthony, All-Star Game, Portland Trail Blazers (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
ESPN’s analytics highlighted the best shooters from every spot in the 2010s. LaMarcus Aldridge and Carmelo Anthony headlined four Portland Trail Blazers players at No.1.
Over the turn of the decade, former Portland Trail Blazers star LaMarcus Aldridge and current star Carmelo Anthony have taken turns as the unofficial public enemy No. 1 in the age of analytics. In what was once viewed as an aesthetically-pleasing measure of skillful brilliance, turnaround fadeaways and midrange pick-and-pops having become frowned upon in this Generation-Z version of the NBA.