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Even in today's three-point-bombing, rim-rocking NBA, elite defense still gets played on a nightly basis.

Just don't expect to see that from the following five players, who have been objectively identified as the 2019-20 season's worst defenders at their respective positions.

Because defense can be so hard to evaluate—even if advanced metrics are still getting a grasp on it—we wanted to remove our own opinions and biases from the equation. We're trusting that numbers never lie, or at least hoping that a combination of some of the best statistics available can fill in the spots on our No-Defense Starting Five.

To keep this objective, we're leaning on three specific metrics: Basketball Reference's defensive box plus/minus (DBPM), ESPN's defensive real plus/minus (DRPM) and Basketball Index's defensive player impact plus-minus (D-PIPM). Specifically, we took each position's 30 worst-ranked players in DRPM (minimum 500 minutes), ranked those players by the other metrics and averaged all three for a composite score.

We're calling this—drum roll, please—defensive score, and the lower the number, the worse the defender.

Sounds simple enough, right? Great, let's start exposing, then.