Who's the best point guard in the NBA right now?

Over the last few years, we've seen an abundance of great  point guard play in the NBA. Younger players like Derrick Rose, Rajon Rondo, and Chris Paul have all come into their own while veterans like Steve Nash and Jason Kidd still continue to play at a high level. As for who's the best? I'm stuck between Rondo and Rose. I'd like to hear everyone else opinion on this.

I think Deron Williams is the best point guard in the league, excluding the games he's missed. Gets a crap load of assist while still scoring high.

Don't get me wrong, but Rose still needs to work on his game a little more. Rose is currently my favorite player in the league. He needs to work on his FG% and how many shots he's taking a game. He has really improved on his shooting this season too. Give him some more time in the coming seasons and he'll be the best PG.

As for Rondo, he's a beast, all I can say. Has a crazy aresenal of moves and can leave anyone in his dust. He's done a great job of fitting in on the Celtics and gets everyone involved. Think he needs to work on his shooting game though and he'll be one of the best in the future.

DE is right on who the best PG is.

D-Will has been plagued with injuries down the stretch this season, so Rose is the best PG this season. Not overall tho.

CP3 hasn't been the same since the injury. A healthy '08 CP3 is easily the best PG in the game and a Top 3 player.

Just this season:

1) Rose

2) D-Will

3) Nash

4) CP3

5) Russ

He doesn't pass Russ in rebounding, Nash in court vision or ball IQ (same with CP3). It's easy for Rondo to have such high court vision when no one takes you seriously offensively, while Nash is the greatest offensive PG in the NBA and one of the greatest offensively; all-time. He doesn't pass Russ or CP3 in drawing fouls, or Russ and Rose in athleticism, or even Nash in assists. I could go on but I think you get the point. He's a great defensive PG tho.

As for Rose, he'd probably be 3rd for me as far as MVP goes (maybe 2nd). Dwight is the clear-cut MVP for me, but the media voted on Rose since 3 months ago (he's had a fantastic season tho).

Rondo is one of the best PG rebounders (Russ has a higher rpg, not by a whole lot). 

Nash and Rondo are close in the assist race because Nash has old-ass Grant Hill, washed up VC, Top 3 worst rebounder Lopez etc. Rondo has the greatest 3-pt shooter of all-time, has one of the greatest PFs of all-time, and one of the greatest Celtics to play the game as well as a consistent SF (still Top 5).

You really think Rondo is on the same level with Russ and Rose in terms of athleticism? He's more athletic than Nash, CP3, and D-Will, but he's far from those 2.

Obviously without Rose, the Bulls' system would collapse since he's their main offensive guy, but most of the team's success this year belongs to COY Thibs. The Bulls also have one of the deepest benches in the leagues, with the starting SG spot being the only real low-point on their team. Rose has become a great defensive PG, but their whole team plays great team defense and individual defense too (Joakim and Luol).

Without Dwight, the Magic would just be a jump-shooting team like the Mavs (just without a solid team and bench like the Mavs, Kidd, or another strong MVP candidate; Dirk). Bulls are ranked 1st in defense because of Thibs and the team. Magic are 3rd because of Dwight. Take him out and they'd be allowing 115 a game. No one else on that team is even close to being half the defender Dwight is.

Deron Williams.

I agree, Rondo is a good facilitator even with great players around him.

I wanna see D12 and CP3 on the same team next season when they're both FAs but with the new CBA coming out, it seems unlikely. 

I was hoping Dwight would come to OKC in 2012 a year back but that's not gonna happen anymore. Would be too stacked and we're already contenders.

He has been terrific defensively and vocally. We've gotten tougher and Ibaka-Perk is deadly.

I was just really happy that we got rid of Jeff Green (he was a starting PF and Ibaka was benched..Brooks is an idiot sometimes). He's terrible and would get us 6 rebounds in 35 minutes while Ibaka, post-ASG has been averaging 11-9 and 3 blocks a game (has increased since we got Perk) and Green isn't even half the defender than Ibaka is.

I thought we were getting Marc in the off-season and then there was news that Nene was eying OKC. Then next thing you know, Top 3 GM Presti pulls of Perk and Nazr (2 championship experienced bigs) that brought a lot to the team. Presti is an ex-Spurs HO member and was the guy who told the Spurs to draft Parker back in 2001. The Spurs HO are amazing and always find that diamond in the dirt (look at Manu; 57th pick and arguably the biggest draft steal the NBA has ever seen). The Celtics had no chance and I booked them being terrible when they got Green (and Nenad is a pretty bad defender as well).

Thunder Pre/Post Trade/Post Perk (13 Games):

ORTG: PRE-TRADE: 110.75 POST-TRADE: 110.97 POST-PERK: 111.15

DRTG: PRE-TRADE: 107.96 POST-TRADE: 104.78 POST-PERK: 101.97

eFG% (Shooting Efficiency) PRE-TRADE: 49.59% POST-TRADE: 50.29% POST-PERK: 50.00%

Opponent eFG% PRE-TRADE: 50.10% POST-TRADE: 47.92% POST-PERK: 46.1%

TOV% (Turnovers): PRE-TRADE: 12.48% POST-TRADE: 12.41% POST-PERK: 12.39%

Opponent TOV%: PRE-TRADE: 12.44% POST-TRADE: 12.28% POST PERK: 12.58%

OREB% (Offensive Rebounding): PRE-TRADE: 26.87% POST-TRADE: 27.84% POST-PERK: 28.57%

DREB% (Defensive Rebounding): PRE-TRADE: 73.74% POST-TRADE: 73.74% POST-PERK: 73.41%

FT/FGA (Foul Shooting): PRE-TRADE: .312 POST-TRADE: .265 POST-PERK: .273

Opponenet FT/FGA: PRE-TRADE: .223 POST-TRADE: .223 POST-PERK: .234

I'm really sorry to hear that you root for the team that got Jeff Green. Believe me it's been a rough 3 1/2 years for me. 

Yeah, Perk is a great player to have from a coaching standpoint (Rivers and Scottie both commented on it). He's pretty much a teddy bear off-court according to KD, but on-court he's one of the toughest players.

How do you feel about the playoffs this year for your Celts? You have a team on the West?

Lakers, Celts, and Heat are all tied right now (all could use a better record than the other 2) and the tie-breaks could be crucial.

BOS-MIA game on Sunday which is gonna be huge. I find it funny tho, that the Celtics playoff chances rely on a 39-year-old Shaq. 

Lol, good answer from a Boston fan with the West pick.

I've been a Bulls, Spurs, and Blazers fan before OKC formed (my number 1 team). I've been following KD since he was in high school, haven't missed a game. Also like the Lakers and some of my favorite all-time players were Lakers, but I'm not the fan of the franchise as a whole like the other 4. Also loved Nash-Suns.

At least one of our teams is doing well : / 

Who's your team?

Oh yeah, you're from NE.

In other news, The Red Sox beat the Yankees.

The Lakers' offense has been bad their past few games (haven't even hit 100 for a team averaging 111 a game). 

I doubt they're intentionally trying to tank because they'd lose HCA to Miami and Boston (I think one of those 2 will make it out of the East) and they're facing NO in the 1st round so far (which is the easiest 4-8 seed team to beat). Portland has a shot of upsetting any of the top 4 imo.

I'd think LA would much rather face Dallas than OKC in the second round as well so I dunno. They usually have these kind of 'going hot' streaks and then 'burning out' games. They've had it at least 5 times this season where they tease their fans, lol.

Their last 3 are OKC (home), SAS (home), and SAC (away) so I'm predicting a 3 game win-streak to end their season.

A 100% Chris Paul is definitely the best PG the league

This season? Rose.

Derrick Rose