WHEN IT COMES TO NBA SUPERSTARS, there exists a clear hierarchy: LeBron James at the top, then Kevin Durant. It's in carving the third head on that totem pole where the going gets tough. To do so, The Mag first asked one exec from each of the 30 NBA teams to name the league's third-best player. The results were mixed: While 21-year-old Anthony Davis edged Chris Paul 10 votes to nine, 11 other execs named eight additional players. Messy, messy. So we turned to the calculators, subjecting all vote-getters (minus the one-legged Paul George) to a metric rumble. Did the analytics match the thinking of the NBA's top decision makers? Not exactly.