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Powerless Rankings for the first week of the NBA season

By Matt Rutkowski

An old ambulance van is seen at a food festival event in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 24 June, 2017. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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PHOENIX, AZ – OCTOBER 13: Eric Bledsoe
PHOENIX, AZ – OCTOBER 13: Eric Bledsoe /

4. Eric Bledsoe

Mental health is health, and Eric Bledsoe of the Phoenix Suns is not in the proper headspace to be playing for the Phoenix Suns. As such, he’s been sent home to recuperate or something.

Bledsoe is arguably the best player on the Suns. That argument will cease when he’s no longer on the Phoenix Suns, but he was the point guard who remained from their magical near-playoff season a few years back.

Isaiah Thomas was brought in, was summarily made disgruntled, and then he went away.

Goran Dragic stuck it out a bit, was summarily made disgruntled, and then he went away.

Bledsoe has stayed the longest in the disgruntlement factory. When he wasn’t physically hampered, he was mini-LeBron. He was posting up 20+ PER seasons on teams that weren’t going anywhere good. Bledsoe even posted a 25-point triple-double before being told “Hey you’re too good at basketball. Stop that. Stop being good at basketball,” and being made to sit for the last 15 games of last season.

I can’t imagine sitting sat well.

At this point, the Bledsoe relationship was too beaten and bloodied to be healed. The Eric Era has ended, and until Bledsoe is traded he will not be playing basketball again. This is a different sort of “out indefinitely,” but it still counts. Eventually he will be on a different team, and eventually we will have him back, but it’s impossible to say where or when.

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