If the 2014-15 season was any indication, great guard play should help define the upcoming NBA campaign.
Both the statistical leaderboards and playoff field were littered with the fingerprints of backcourt elites. The conference semifinals alone featured nine All-Star guards, and 17 of the league's top 30 scorers manned one of the two backcourt posts.
With so much talent congested between these two positions, it begs the question of which perimeter tandem reigns supreme.
That's what we sought to answer here, though our approach is a little different. Rather than a straight ranking of the league's premier guard combos, we have placed the top 16 (based on past production and future potential) into a hypothetical single-elimination tournament to crown the winner.
The 16 duos were seeded by their average ranking in six statistical categories: points, assists, rebounds, field-goal percentage, three-point percentage and player efficiency rating. For any ties, the tandem with the better combined PER gained the higher seed.
We then brought our hypothetical battles to life by focusing on playing style, individual matchups and stati ...
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Article written by Zach Buckley
Battle of the Backcourts: Which Guard Combos Will Rule the NBA in 2015-16?
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