April 19, 2023 News and Notes

• Draymond Green:  SUSPENDED for Game 3.  And can make his summer vacation plans within a week or so.  The NBA has HAD IT with the Warriors' bullshit.
• The annual anonymous Overrated/Underrated NBA players' poll is out.
• Overrated:
• Trae Young of Atlanta is the most overrated player in the league.  Almost 15% of the players polled said he was overrated, even though he was 14th in the league at over 26 points a game and 3rd in the league at just over 10 assists a game.
• Knicks Julius Randle is second, at about half that percentage.  19th in the league at 25.1 points a game, 11th in the league at 10 rebounds a game.
• Toronto's Pascal Siakam had the same percentage as Randle.  26th in the league at 24.2 points a game, shoots under 50% FG to get there.
• Jimmy Butler of the Heat was #4.  33rd in the league at just under 23 points a game, not much else.
• Rudy Gobert of the Timberwolves was #5.  3rd in the league in field-goal percentage, 5th in the league in rebounds.
• Underrated:
• Jrue Holliday of Milwaukee won the honor as the most underrated player in the league.  In the shadow of Giannis, a lot of people get that idea.
• Mikal Bridges of Brooklyn was second.
• Jayden McDaniels of Minnesota was third.
• Jaylen Brown of Boston was fourth.
• De'Aaron Fox of Sacramento was fifth.
• Sports Illustrated noted all five players had key roles in getting their teams to the playoffs.
• MVPs:  Joel Embiid and Nokola Jocic.
• Greatest of all time?  Foolish and Wretched Ballhog.
• CFK did it again.  Clayton Kershaw against the Mets tonight:  7 innings, 9 K's, three hits.  And for those who honor the stat:  200th win of his career.  Only four active pitchers have reached 200, none have reached 250.  Only Adam Wainwright is in shouting distance at 195.
• Only 17 even have 100.