At nba.com, the results are in for the annual poll of the 30 teams’ General Managers. While there’s little surprise about the individual choices (Anthony Davis was selected as the player 26 of 30 GMs would start a franchise with – blinding flash of the obvious), I was more than a little disappointed in some of the other responses. Let’s take a closer look.
In the most splintered vote of all, the player whose acquisition was considered most underrated wasn’t the Toronto Raptors’ DeMarre Carroll. He barely got a mention, buried under such names as Ty Lawson, David West and Amir Johnson(!