SGA Ranks as a Top-3 NBA Player: Analysis & Impact

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00:00where are you at on SGA as it pertains to being

00:03that guy's good enough to lead a team to a championship?

00:08There's an argument to be made that it's obviously Jokic won,

00:12and then depending on what an individual person values,

00:16it's like SGA is like a 2A and Luka could be a 2B or vice versa.

00:21I would not have SGA lower than 3.

00:25That's what it comes down to.

00:26And again, Giannis doing this, he's unbelievable.

00:32Defensively, Giannis could always be up there for a defensive player of the year,

00:34et cetera, et cetera.

00:35So what do you value?

00:36But you can make the argument that it's Jokic, SGA, Luka, Giannis,

00:40or Luka, SGA, Giannis.

00:42I think there's no reason to have SGA lower than 3 at worst.

00:46You know, coming into this season, I had him as a top 5 player in the league.

00:51To me, it was, you know, and I had him beat up there respectfully because of it.

00:57But the injuries kind of took him out of it, right?

01:01So if you redo, and I do my redo my rankings, Jokic's number one.

01:06I think Giannis' stretch down the end of the season has been out of this world.

01:11I still do think that, and Kevin and I talk about this all the time, like,

01:16Giannis also needs to start guarding the other team's best player and saying,

01:19I'm locking you up, right?

01:21Which I think he's capable of.

01:23I don't know if he's ever gone to the doc and said, I want to do this.

01:26That, to me, it's SGA.

01:28I've now moved SGA ahead of Luka because of his defensive ability, right?

01:36And that's not no knock on Luka because Luka's probably, like, right behind him at number four.

01:43What he has done, and I want people to understand this.

01:46Like, when you think about great shooting metrics for a point guard, right?

01:50You go by the Steve Nash Kyrie 50-40-90.

01:54Well, right now, he's going to end the season 51.9, 37.5, 89.8.

02:01He's basically just about there, and it's the highest three-point shooting percentage of his career

02:08except for 2021 when he only played 35 games.

02:12So, statistically, shooting the ball, he's had his best season.

02:16His team's had their best season.

02:18Defensively, he's had his best season.

02:19To me, he firmly is, right now, the third-best player in the world,

02:23and he could jump and easily be two where Tom has him right now.

02:27Yeah, I think, again, so, you know, one of the reasons I had him two

02:30is when I'll do my preseason rankings, availability is a big part of it,

02:34and Giannis Antetokounmpo has just not even come close to checking that box.

02:38Forget, like, Embiid's inability to be available has covered for Giannis'.

02:46Because Giannis' – again, last year, does anyone remember what Giannis did in the postseason?

02:50No, because he didn't play.

02:52Because that's been a thing for Giannis, unfortunately, after they won –

02:55he got injured the year they won the title, by the way, in the postseason

02:58and missed basketball games.

02:59I think SGA actually has the opportunity to grab the top spot

03:03because if you finish a season with an MVP and a finals MVP, quite frankly,

03:06it's very difficult to argue it's anyone else.

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