SI.com published their annual Top 100 ranking of NBA players. Five Celtics were ranked in that top 100.
First of all, you should ask yourself: What is the criteria of this list? Awesome author Rob Mahoney lays it out there pretty clearly.
Given the wide variety of candidates involved and the deep analytical resources available, no single, definitive criterion was used to form this list. Instead, rankings were assigned based on a fluid combination of subjective assessment and objective data.
So basically the list is whatever they wanted it to be, so really there’s no sense in getting upset over any of it.