Lakers Rumors: Jeremy Lin Snubbed in SI’s Top-100 NBA Players List

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Jeremy Lin has been ranked outside Sports Illustrated's Top-100 players for the 2014-15 NBA season. Why did it happen?

A new season on its way, thus a new Sports Illustrated players ranking for fans to chime in, and of course, complain for.

How Sports Illustrated come up with list of NBA's Top-100 players for next season?

According to SI writer Rob Mahoney and Ben Golliver, picking up the best 100 players in a league consists of over 500 ballers isn't a walk in the park. In fact, several sleepless nights were spent just to crunch numbers - including advanced metrics such as Player Efficiency Rating, Win Shares and Regularized adjusted plus-minus (the player's impact on the floor).

What kind of an impact SI's Top-100 list would provide for these players?

Other than saying that NBA season is just around the corner, it also provides NBA fans a sample size of what to expect for the next seven months. It pictures out the diversity of talents in the league from ultimate role players to superstars, from rising stars to falling stars. In short, it's a standard table of the pecking order in the NBA cosmos.

Why no J-Lin in SI's Top-100 NBA Players?

While it's very much disappointing to see a great guy like Lin booted out of the list, Sports Illustrated panelist made its exclusion a bit credible by backing it up with stats from last year (2013-14: 12.5 PPG, 4.1 APG, 2.6 RPG, 1.0 SPG, 44.6 FG%, 35.8 3P% / Advanced: 14.3 PER, 4.4 Win Shares, -0.8 RAPM).

"Can a ball-dominant point guard with an international following and outsized expectations that surpass his ability ever catch a break? in the post-Linsanity era, Lin has been paired with A-lister after A-lister who require the undrafted Harvard floor leader to cede control and shots," according to the SI writers.

"Now, Lin must find a way to coexist with Kobe Bryant, who is surely eager to hoist after watching the Lakers struggle through a miserable 2013-14 season mostly without him."

How Lin Will Fare This Coming Season?

Nobody knows what's in store for Lin and everybody else this season. One this is for sure about his situation with the Lakers, he will have more chances to show his worth than he had with the Rockets this past two seasons.