I feel like current and ex-players downplay some players who don’t have a bag like Giannis and then blow smoke up Kyrie’s or even DeRozan’s ass. I was reading a similar thing regarding footballers, how many of them rate Neymar a lot because of a similar reason (he can do things they cannot do).
Players respect the work it took for Kyrie to become so skilled.
If tomorrow a 10 foot tall invincible athlete joined the NBA, he’d be the best player of all time but players aren’t gonna respect him very much.