Star Celtics forward Jayson Tatum clocks in as top player in 2007 NBA draft class per HoopsHype’s global rating
NBA analyst of our sister site HoopsHype Alberto De Roa put together a new metric he dubbed the global rating that, as he puts it “combines players’ and teams’ statistics to rank players according to their productivity on the court. The rating also factors in the number of contests a given player has been unavailable for in a season (for a more detailed breakdown, check this out).
For the 2022-23 NBA season, De Roa not only used global rating to analyze the NBA’s players against one another but also how each draft class remaining in the league stacks up against their peers.
The highest-rated and most recently drafted Boston Celtics player to make De Roa’s draft class assessment is former Duke standout Jayson Tatum. The star Celtics forward clockes in as the top overall player from his 2017 NBA draft class.
If you think about it, it’s actually pretty obvious. https://t.co/yLobH8i3it
— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) November 10, 2022
Ahead of players such as (in order) Lauri Markannen, Donovan Mitchell, OG Anunoby, Jarret Allen and De’Aaron Fox, Tatum is in a league of his own. Global rating pegs the St. Louis native as the fourth-best player in the NBA this season.
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