NBA’s most overrated players: James Harden and Paul George make list — and so do some young All-Stars

Earlier this week we published our CBS Sports Top 100 NBA player rankings, knowing it's impossible for anyone to agree on these sorts of lists. That's sort of the point of doing them. They're (hopefully civil) conversation starters. One person might have Victor Wembanyama as the No. 1 player heading into the 2026-27 season, another person may have Nikola Jokić or Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, but everyone is going to have those guys near the top of their list.

For the purposes of this article you're about to read, we're looking for the significant discrepancies between where a player ranked on the CBS Sports final list, which was a creation of cumulative staff votes, and where a player ranked on our individual list. Based on these discrepancies, we published our most underrated players on Wednesday (James Harden was one of them), and now we're polling our writers for their most overrated players (James Harden is again one of them).

See, reasonable minds can disagree. Let's get to it.

Top 100 ranking: 22 Why that's too high: Mobley is clearly talented and a phenomenal defender, but I have a hard time buying a guy who is a third option offensively as the 22nd…

Original source: https://www.cbssports.com/