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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 1175755, member: 767"]
Like I said, I think it's very close between the two so I'm not saying it's a big deal either way.   But how long do you need to be around to make a list like this?  Harden has been in the league for 5 years, and he's been the focal point of his team for the last 2 years and he's been awesome.   If you want to make the argument Melo is a better player, I think it's reasonable, but I don't think the amount of time they've been in the league has anything to do with it.  Were you waiting until 2009 to make Melo and Lebron 2 of the top players in the league?  Durant has only been in the league a year longer than Harden, did he just play enough to qualify?
I know I've been banging the drum about the olympic thing, but why do we think Melo/Lebron/Durant are the top 3?  At the last olympics, Melo was like 6th on the team in minutes played.  (Now granted, part of that is because he's playing behind Lebron and Durant).  But I think this Melo as an olympic beast narrative has taken on a life of it's own.  Here are his game logs from the last olympics
[url]http://www.basketball-reference.com/olympics/athletes/carmelo-anthony-1[/url]
Team USA played 3 combined games against Argentina and Spain, the two best teams in the tournament aside from us.  Melo was 11-29 in those 3 games.  Not exactly lighting it up.  But hey, he killed Nigeria and Tunisia.  Maybe I'm making too big a deal about the olympic thing.
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