Make Your Case For Your Favorite Young Gun

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By: Greg Payne

With moratorium set to take off on Wednesday, I figured we could have a little bit of fun for one last night before the really juicy stuff gets going this offseason. If you thought you dealt with rumors before, just wait for this Wednesday through next Wednesday.

So, with that in mind, Comcast SportsNet has conveniently compiled a list of New England athletes from all of the professional teams, deemed the "Top 20 Under 25". Basically, the list takes a look at the promising young talent of the four major sports teams in New England.

I'm proud to say the Celtics had some nice representation on the list in the forms of Rajon Rondo, Kendrick Perkins, Glen Davis and Bill Walker.

So how would you rank these four players? The obvious answer might be...

1) Rajon Rondo
2) Kendrick Perkins
3) Glen Davis
4) Bill Walker

...but I encourage those of who who are sincere fans of the bottom three to make your personal cases for each and every one of them.

For example, I could say: Well, Glen Davis clearly benefited from Kevin Garnett suffering his right knee injury. If Garnett hadn't gone down, there's now way we'd be regarding Davis so highly right now. Now, if Pierce had gone down, it seems very reasonable that Walker would have stepped in for him and then we would have had an ample opportunity to see what the kid's got.

I don't care how many flashes of pure basketball brilliance Walker showed us in his selective stints on the court last season, there was no possible way he'd receive minutes over a healthy Pierce. Forget about it.

And you could also say something like: Well, as great as Rondo is, Kendrick Perkins had to go up against the NBA's premiere center in the second round of the postseason, and look what he did to Dwight Howard. Not just anyone could do that. And look what happened when Rondo met Derrick Rose! I can clearly remember Rose exploding for 36 points and 11 assists in his very first playoff game with Rondo guarding him.

Feel free to state your cases in the comments section. Keep it clean, but don't back down, either.

Stay Tuned.