The NBA All-Underrated Team

Jordan Crawford

• Brad Stevens’ chef d’oeuvre
• Huge fan of advanced basketball metrics
• Has earned the right to take 18 foot fadeaways with 19 on the shot clock if he wishes

Always a pretty decent passer (when he felt like it), Crawford decided to spoil his teammates rotten this year and is averaging over 7 dimes per 40 minutes. He’s got a higher assist ratio than Steph Curry and Damian Lillard — guys that are actual point guards.

He’s the current leader of a Celtics squad that was supposed to tank but is inexplicably 4th in the Eastern Conference. Crawford’s already won the prestigious Eastern Conference Player of the Week Award, which all but guarantees the Coach of the Year award for Brad Stevens and once again proves that advanced statistics are the answer to everything.

Horace Smith

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