Every Spur is now accounted for in NBA’s individual player rankings with Tony Parker’s appearance at No. 16.
His 12-spot jump from No. 28 in last year’s rankings is a fitting reward for probably the best season of his professional career, in which he finished fifth in the MVP voting after the Spurs finished first in the Western Conference.
A quick review of as a team:
No. 16, Tony Parker
No. 25, Manu Ginobili
No. 27, Tim Duncan
No. 95, Kawhi Leonard
No. 149, Tiago Splitter
No. 151, Stephen Jackson
No. 155, DeJuan Blair
No. 160, Danny Green
No. 162, Boris Diaw
No. 171, Gary Neal
No. 198, Matt Bonner
No. 309, Patty Mills
No. 458, Cory Joseph
No. 488, Derrick Byars
NR, Nando De Colo
Seems like a pretty fair representation of where the Spurs are at. A good top-end trio surrounded by eight other players in the top 200. Not as flashy as the Lakers, who have four in the Top 20 — take a guess who — but still a very, very respectable roster.