Gary Payton’s Most Underrated and Overrated Players in the NBA

Since the start of the 2009-2010 season, former NBA superstar Gary Payton has been bringing his professional insight and intelligence into your home, as one of the newest analysts in the BetFlix film room. Well, he’s back, bringing you his most underrated and overrated players of this season.

Starting with the most underrated, he goes out to Utah, to discuss point guard Deron Williams. In Payton’s eyes, Williams is the second best player at his position, behind only Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets. Williams was a member of the 2008 Gold Medal winning Olympic team in Beijing, but staggeringly for a player of his magnitude, has never been an NBA All-Star. Williams is currently third in the NBA, averaging exactly 10 assists a game, to go with 19.9 points per contest. Utah is currently 8th in the Western Conference standings.

As far as the most overrated players, Payton has listed two. The first is Toronto Raptors power forward Chris Bosh. Bosh, a seventh year player in Toronto is 23.5 points and 11.5 rebounds, yet his Raptors are nine games back of the Boston Celtics in the Atlantic Division. As Payton said, Bosh needs, “To step up a little bit more,” if Toronto is to make a real push into the playoffs.

His second most overrated player is formerly one of the league’s best, Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas. Arenas, who is coming off of back-to-back lost seasons after knee surgeries, has struggled in his return to Washington, averaging 23 points and 7 assists a game. However, the Wizards are at the bottom of the East’s Southeast Division, with just a 10-19 record.

As always, Payton will be with BetFlix all season, taking his year’s of NBA insight right to your home computer, giving you the best inside information found anywhere on the internet. Before you make your NBA bets, make sure to check out “Payton’s Corner,” and BetOnline’s MVP, Gary Payton.