Trae Young is voted the NBA’s most OVERRATED player – by his peers – despite averaging 26 points a game this season, as Jrue Holiday picks up the accolade of most underrated
- Trae Young topped the anonymous poll of some of his NBA peers this season
- The Hawks guard has struggled mightily in the playoffs of late for Atlanta
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NBA players voted on their most overrated peers in the league, and two-time All-Star Trae Young finished head and shoulders above the rest for the ignominious distinction.
In an anonymous player poll conducted by The Athletic, 14.8 percent of players said the Hawks guard was the most overrated in the league – double the tallies of the next two names.
Julius Randle and Pascal Siakam – both named All-Stars this season – received 7.4 percent of the vote, while Jimmy Butler, Rudy Gobert and Jaren Jackson Jr. got 5.6 percent each respectively.
In Young’s last eight playoff games, which dates back to 2021, the Atlanta star is averaging just 16.4 points and 6.6 assists on 31.7 percent from the field and 17.5 percent from three-point range.
Those marks are far below his career averages on 25.5 points and 10.2 assists per game.
Trae Young and Julius Randle were branded as overrated by a good chunk of their peers
But the Bucks’ Jrue Holiday got the other side of the vote, being named as underrated
On the positive side, Bucks guard Jrue Holiday was named the most underrated player in the league with 17.5 percent of the vote.
Holiday is considered one of, if not the best, on-ball defenders in the league but earned just his second All-Star nod this year in a 14-year career.
Further down the list, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander received 11.3 percent of the vote, Nets breakout Mikal Bridges nabbed 5.2 percent and Jalen Brunson, Jaden McDaniels and Derrick White all got 4.1 percent.
Jaylen Brown, Anthony Edwards and De’Aaron Fox were also among those receiving votes.
The poll was of 108 players, nearly a quarter of the league’s players.