NBA's most underrated players: An improving LaMelo Ball, a picked-on James Harden … and a rookie?

In wake of our NBA Top 100 list going live, CBS Sports writers are picking who they think are the most underrated players in the league Every year, major media outlets (including us!) release a list of the best players in the NBA. And every year, that list is remembered for maybe a dozen or so slights. Social media typically rallies a handful of fanbases to outrage against how unfairly the outlet in question is treating their favorite player, and among those aggrieved cities, a few turn out to be completely correct when the season actually arrives, thereby invalidating the entire exercise in their eyes.In defense of those outlets (again… ours included!), the voting body is not a monolith.

Just because one list is lower on your favorite player than you think it should be doesn't mean every individual voter was.And so, with our list of the top 100 players in the NBA now released, we've decided to give our voters the chance to join those social media hordes and explain where we believe our colleagues erred. Each of our voters selected one player, based on their own top 100 rankings and the final list we published as a group, to name as the league's most underrated player. Maybe we were too low on your favorite player as a whole,