While everyone is focused on who should win the NBA MVP award, these guys deserve more love for their respective performances during the 2016-17 season.
The NBA is full of underrated and undervalued players who can go completely unnoticed despite their contributions on a nightly basis.
However, our nERD metric is a great way to prevent that from happening. nERD measures the total contribution of a player throughout the course of the season, based on efficiency. The league average is zero, and it measures how many wins above (or below) .500 a league-average team would be with that player as a starter.