This is the age of the NBA point guard. Two of the greatest to ever play the position, Steve Nash and Jason Kidd are watching their careers come to an end. Replacing them are five potential Hall of Fame careers in Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook and Rajon Rondo.
Each of the five has their own style of play and are fitted to their own teams. People shouldn't confuse best "style" of play with best point guard. Each player has their own strengths, weaknesses, systems and coaches. Every one of them plays the way their coach asks them to, so that's not really a point of conversation.
I did think it would be interesting to take a look at them and see how they did playing against each other though. I went through the game logs in games only involving head-to-head matchups and tracked several things, field goals, field goal attempts, field goal percentage, scoring efficiency, assists, rebounds, blocks, steals, turnovers and game score.
I also tracked what their opponent did in the same game and then looked at the net results.
Game Score is tracked by basketball-reference.com. This is what their glossary says abou ...
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