Which Cavs are too low, too high on ESPN’s Top 100?

The Cleveland Cavaliers have a young and exciting team, especially after trading for Donovan Mitchell, replete with talented veterans and rising future stars. Every fan of the Cavs can and likely does have their own personal idea of where each player on the team stacks up with the rest of the league. If that means Darius Garland and Evan Mobley are top 10 players, so be it!

The difference between your list and the one put out every year by ESPN is that yours is private to you and your buddies, while ESPN’s is public for everyone to analyze and critique. What’s more, the “NBARank” project they put on polls over 200 “reporters, editors, producers and analysts” not all of whom seem to understand what’s valuable in the league.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have six players in ESPN’s NBARank Top 100. Where did their so-called experts place the Cavs and were those rankings correct?

It’s therefore more of a community poll than a true expert opinion, but it’s still interesting to look at because ESPN’s online footprint dictates that thousands of fans are having their opinions on players influenced by this ranking.

The Cavs showed out in force, with six players landing in the Top 100: Kevin Love, Caris LeVert, Jarrett Allen, Darius Garland, Evan Mobley and Donovan Mitchell. Which players landed too low on the list? Which were too high? And which, in the immortal words of Goldilocks, were just right?