Boy, and you guys don't even have to watch the horrible Manu HEB commercials like the folks in Texas have to:

youtube.com/watch?v=VQcK494KBFY

Manu averages 26 p/40 min, gets to the line a ton, has a 25+ PER, a positive PPR, has a 53+ eFG%, a 13.2 Roland Rating (on/off court ranking system), and, best of all, he has a nearly 70% eFG IN THE CLUTCH. If you just count shots taken in the last 3 seconds of the shot clock, he shoots an eFG of...wait for it...84%. Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick.

Best of all, take a look at his positional comparison stats at 82 Games. You read that correctly. He is nearly twice as effective as the players he's going up against. Even Kobe doesn't have that kind of separation.

Best player wise, I'd go Lebron, Chris Paul, and then toss it up between KG and Manu.

Yeah, wow. Manu is a very good player don't get me wrong... but this is getting a little ridiculous. As an owner, Kobe is probably the second guy in the league I'd want on my team in terms of skill and the ability to bring in revenue (Lebron #1.)

Manu doesn't start. He usually gets the bulk of his points against the benches. He'll have his share of 4th quarter heroics. But taking his playing situations, 20-30 minutes per game, mostly, at least 60% of the time on the 2nd tier players, the rest in crunch time. Even Lebron or Kobe could put up numbers like that if not better if they were to be a 6th man and be instant offence.

Players like Kobe play nearly all 48 minutes, there will be stretches where they won't attempt to shoot. Those minutes lost count into their overall minutes per game. Put Manu in that situation, he won't be having the ball 90% of the time, and heading to the FT line 20 times a game, shooting 60% and draining threes left and right.