Tier 1: Jokic
Tier 2: Steph/Embiid
Tier 3: Luka/Giannis/Tatum
Tier 4: Booker/SGA/LeBron/KD
Tier 5: Ant/Hali/AD/Maxey/Butler
The full top 50 is here
What do ya’ll think? Personally I think Maxey in the top 15 is a huuuge overreaction to a 10 games stretch. Most didn’t even have him top 40 in the offseason.
Maxey and Haliburton over Fox??? Lets calm down here…
lmao Embiid, Curry and Giannus aren’t even on the same tier as Jokic
Second tier is Giannis steph and Luka
Facts.
Until embiid proves himself in the playoffs he’s neo Karl malone.
And, given the choice, I’d take malone if he wasn’t a literal pedophile
Maxey is ranked ahead of Dame and Donovan Mitchell for a 10 game sample where he played at the level those two have played at for years.
Maxey has objectively been better than Dame this season if that’s what we’re talking
Dame’s 33 and he looks like he might be washed so I can buy that but Mitchell’s off to a fantastic start to the season. He’s played just as well as Maxey.
Because maxey is that damn good
Where tf is Fox lol. Good on Maxey, but yea how tf is he ahead of these guys? And Giannis is in tier 1 or 2, easily over Embiid.
Lauri Markannen has to be one of the most underrated players in the league. He’s been putting up basically 25/10 on 50/40/90 ever since the start of last season and mfs are putting him on the same tier as a rookie?
I don’t hate him having Giannis 5th, but to have him on a whole seperate tier is just wrong.
I really don’t hate his top 10 though. I’d have Luka and Giannis in front of embiid still but you can definitely argue it if you’d like.
I always wonder how KOC got a job as a nba “analyst/journalist”
He’s pretty smart. But yeah I have no idea how he did it.
I rarely trust analysts who haven’t shot a basketball since middle school.
I used to like KOC but bro is still on his I’m an “analyst” stubbornness while becoming a take guy. He would not concede to Vernon that KAT shouldn’t be traded even though they’re winning and the Ringer as a whole is pushing this narrative that KAT is some malcontent like Harden.
Who blows up a team on a roll and in a groove to gamble on fit.
I vote we call this is called the Nate Silver Phenomenon. Where a former stats guy completely abandons stats to make takes for clicks
He wrote for the Celtics Blog.
Move Giannis up and Embiid down Maxey is also a little high and AD is a little low
Or you can keep Embiid and move Giannis and Luka up
Kyrie on the same tier as Scottie Barnes, I’m sick
Fox
Top 2 but not 2
Lmao man put Wemby over Gobert, Kyrie, Porzingis, etc.
Luka and Giannis to tier 2. Lebron to 3.
Tier 3 is overall better than Tier 2 lol
Anything KOC should be disregarded just based on how he hyped Killian Hayes lmao
KOC is not a “serious” analyst. That’s not an insult. It’s just clear that he either plants his flag and won’t move, or else everything is super “prisoner of the moment” if he doesn’t already have an established take. He’s a piece in the basketball take-o-sphere, which is fine, but I don’t think he’d ever admit that.