top 10 players in league in 5 years

Bender has tons more potential than Miles. Benders more athletic, 4 inches taller, bigger and stronger, and is on a whole different level when it comes to shooting. Also playing time is a huge facotr with Bender, and don't say it isnt. There was no way the Pacers could play a 19-20 year old Bender his first few seasons, years the Pacers were leading contenders for the title when they had vets like Dale Davis, Jalen Rose, Reggie Miller, and Chris Mullin. On the other hand look at Miles, he gets drafted into one of the NBAs worst teams at the time, and no doubt about it THE all-time worst team, LA Clippers. Ofcourse he's gonna get plenty of playing time there, who else are they gonna play? Eric Piatkowski? Come on man, damn. Anyways, 2002-2003 WILL be Benders break out season. Also, when Bender was coming into the league he was compared to Kevin Garnett with Reggie Miller-like shooting ability, and from what I've seen so far he's well on his way to living up to the hype.

IMX, you're way off man. What does Quentin Richardson have to become a superstar? Having squinty eyes don't make you a superstar. My man Al Harrington has more potential than Q, he was putting up better numbers coming off the bench for the Pacers in less PT than Q, Al's also got top 10 defense, something Quentin doesnt have. Al would have been unanimous vote for 6th Man of the Yera had he not been injured. Also sure Ricky Davis is a pretty good player who's pretty dman exicting, but there's no way he's ever gonna be a superstar, ecspecialy not playing in Cleveland. He'll be a star on the Sean Elliott/Toni Kukoc level but he wont be a superstar. DaJuan has no defense but I guess that doesn't matter anymore so idk I guess he'll be a superstar. LeBrons already a superstar, damn. O'Neal's just inches away from superstardom, if he has a good year this upcoming season he'll reach it. Griffin looks damn good and even though he's over looked for guys like Jason Richardson and Tyson Chandler, he could end up being the best player form last years draft. Tysons look's like he'll be very good though he looks akward on the court but idk. I dont think Curry will ever be a superstar. Maybe a star on a Dale Davis type level but never a superstar. Darius Miles could become a big time player, but he still doesn't have half the potential of Bender. had Bender been in the same draft as Miles I'm sure he would have went #1 overall to the Nets, would have gotten lots of playing time playing for their at the time extremely weak team, and would already be a star. Remember, Bender wnet #5 in one of the strongest drafts ever, the 4 guys who went ahead of him were: Elton Brand, Steve Francis, Baron Davis, and Lamar Odom. Miles went #3 in maybe the weakest draft ever, going behind Kenyon Martin and Chris Mhim (I think).

First of all I'm not even going to get into this Al Harrington thing since it's obvious that your bias. You think Bender and Harrington will both be stars. I do think that Harrington will be a good player but not a superstar. Quentin is a great player he averaged 13.3ppg in 26.6mpg off the bench to Harrington's 13.1ppg in 29.8mpg. And why you gotta hate on Q??? I'm not over here saying...dang Al's got some pretty HUGE ears and an enormous nose. Dajuan has been working on his defense and if you've ever watched a show called "The Life" MJ's trainer said Dajuan has all the physical skills to play lock-down defense and his defense has really improved. Eddy Curry=Dale Davis??? LOL. That's insane. He is bigger younger than Dale Davis. Has tons of potential and with the Center position becoming the weakest position in the NBA h has a chance to excel. Just because Bender could've been drafted by the Nets doesn;t garuantee PT. You have to EARN it. Darius Miles went behing Kenyon Martin and Stromile Swift who at the time seemed for stardem. Miles get drafted to the Clippers who have Lamar Odom, Maggette, Richardson, Piatkowski, etc...I think that says something about him when he can get 20+ minutes his rookie year. And anyways the only reason Bender got time was because the traded away Jalen Rose and Harrington went down with an injury.

Centers

Yao Ming
Eddy Curry

PF

Tim Duncan
Amare Stoudamire (oh yeah he will be)

SF

Tracy McGrady
Kevin Garnett

SG

Lebron James
Kobe Bryant

PG

Baron Davis
Troy Bell (what?!? but yes... i really do think so)

Honorable mentions:

Paul Pierce
Nene Hilario
Jay Williams
Dirk Nowtizski
Joe Johnson
Emeka Okafor (I'm already really impressed with this guy, going crazy in college ball and showing that he's got big time game)
Mike Bibby
Richard Jefferson (more of a defensive specialist, in the future, but capable of a scoring role)


BOOO I just got a huge assignment at work... goodbye Basketballboards.net for a little while...

pg
-Baron Davis
-Gilbert Arenas?
sg
-Lebron James (if he's playing sg)
-Dwyane Wade
sf
-Ron Artest
-Andrei Kirielinko
Pf
-Tim Duncan
-Kevin Garnett
C
-Chris Bosh
-Amare Stoudamore