Wow, check out that positions column. The Top 2 players in the league right now are guards and then it’s just 8 straight forwards. Sure, two of them are really centers and one can play the guard just as well as he can the forward, but it really is eye-opening that in such a guard-happy league (no hand check rule, slew of young point guards taking over the show), it’s the forwards that are still dominating.

Let’s talk about Gerald Wallace, or Crash as he’s called by teammates (because he has received several concussions from running into people headfirst). In the four games this week he put up a monster line of 21.8 PPG / 8.3 RPG / 2.0 APG on 52.7% from the floor and 81.3% from the line. Oh, yeah and they were all wins (agains Phoenix, San Antonio and Houston to boot)! Sure, Stephen Jackson has been getting a lot of praise for instantly changing the culture of Charlotte from a struggling, baby franchise to a playoff contender since his trade, and rightly so. But Wallace has been there since day 1 and has been nothing but solid, consistent and great. Good to see him finally crack the Top 10 this season.

Biggest Jump: Gerald Wallace, Dwight Howard (4)
Biggest Fall: Chris Bosh (9)
Hello: Zach Randolph
Goodbye: Kobe Bryant
Ineligible: Pau Gasol

NBA Top 10 (by APP+)
Rank	Prev	Player	Team(s)	Pos.	GP	APP	APP+
1	1	Chris Paul		G	32	↑ 31.77	↑ 22.84
2	3	Dwyane Wade		G	39	↑ 28.11	↑ 19.18
3	4	Tim Duncan		F-C	37	↑ 28.89	↑ 18.62
4	6	Dirk Nowitzki		F	40	↑ 27.16	↑ 18.46
-	-	Pau Gasol (Ineligible)		F	24	↓ 27.14	↑ 18.44
5	2	LeBron James		F	42	↓ 26.16	↓ 17.46
6	7	David Lee		F	41	↓ 26.00	↓ 17.30
7	9	Carmelo Anthony		F	35	↓ 25.83	↓ 17.13
8	12	Gerald Wallace		F	38	↑ 25.72	↑ 17.02
9	8	Kevin Durant		G-F	41	↓ 26.45	↓ 16.71
10	14	Dwight Howard		C-F	41	↑ 25.93	↑ 16.68

Just Outside
Rank	Prev	Player	Team(s)	Pos.	GP	APP	APP+
11	15	Brandon Roy		G	39	↑ 25.37	↑ 16.44
12	-	Zach Randolph		F	40	24.97	16.27
13	13	Deron Williams		G	37	↓ 24.97	↓ 16.04
14	5	Chris Bosh		F-C	41	↓ 26.25	↓ 15.98
15	10	Steve Nash		G	42	↓ 24.67	↓ 15.74

APP – Adjusted Pace Performance
A weighted formula for combining everything a player does on the basketball court into one number. This number is then adjusted based upon the players’ team pace to provide a balanced way to compare players’ performance.
APP+ – APP Above Positional Average APP
Player’s weighted performance minus the performance of an average player at his same position.

Players are considered ineligible if they fail to play in 60% of their team’s games.

APP for an average NBA player for the 2010 season: ↓ 9.57
APP+ for an average NBA player for the 2010 season: ↓ 0.69
Stats through 1/18/2010