For the first time in NBA history, the top 3 players are arguably internationally born. How do you feel about this?

[Killer Instinct]

Giannis. Steph. Jokic. Luka is right there.

 

[Warren Peace]

Gianni’s, Luka, Jokic

 

[Maquina]

I see why nikkas put you on ignore, you just don’t have any social skills whatsoever. Nikkas come on here to chop it up about sports in a easy going way where at the end of the day the shyt is not that serious but you just try to ruin every discussion with your awkwardness. Do better

You called it - this guy Gil Scott is stalking me now . Can’t even chop it up without his weirdo ass popping up

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You called it - this guy Gil Scott is stalking me now . Can’t even chop it up without his weirdo ass popping up

Chopping it up? Who you kiddin?



Your trolling ass is making enemies all over the board. You're all up in TLR spamming with your nonsense.

 

[Mister Terrific]

Top 3 players in the NBA got eliminated by Poland, Germany, and Italy?

KD would never

 

[Guile]

Luka is a dude that can't stay in shape and will struggle to get his team close to 50 wins

Jokic ain't doing shyt in Denver but winning 50 games and going out in the 1st/2nd round

And you fukking forgot Embiid

KD and Bon are still around too

 

[staticshock]

Luka is a dude that can't stay in shape and will struggle to get his team close to 50 wins

Jokic ain't doing shyt in Denver but winning 50 games and going out in the 1st/2nd round

And you fukking forgot Embiid

KD and Bon are still around too

They are some of the best players today no doubt..but top 3?! fukk no. A MVP doesn’t mean shyt these days after Russ won it by that fraudulent shyt his teammates allowed him to do. And Kobe only won 1 MVP..you telling me he was only the best player 1 year his whole career? That shyt doesn’t mean the best player in the league. It just means the player who is responsible the most for his teams success.

 

[High quality poster]

My words are prophetic.

Now me personally. It’s. Kd, Curry, Giannis, Embiid, a healthy Kawhi. But it’s clear what direction Silver wants to take it.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

you're being dishonest - you just negged me for stating literally the same thing.

To be perfectly honest, I didn't neg you for that specific post, I negged you because you're part of an influx of lame ass posters who've joined this year. I've seen a few of your posts, so take it as a neg for your posting as a whole. I wasn't wrong hence your crying about it in this thread and your incessant quoting of my posts, begging for my attention.

Go and do your research.

so you negged me on a post that you literally agreed with later? You're going around and negging people who just joined and you don't think you're being a weirdo?

Only recently joined and already in the bushes -

Y'all gon' learn about these 2022 posters.

 

[Harry B]

Lol thought it was embiid, giannis, jokic.

And was gonna say black is black, a red/beige man been top 3 before. American and international.

Really no feelings, basketball is a Canadian sport.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

People claiming Jokic isn't a top-3 player cause of "impact" are just hating. His impact is huge, that team would be pathetic without him.




Plenty of top-3 players have failed to have Finals-level supporting casts. Compare these two five-year stretches:

Two MVPs, one 4th place, one 9th place
Average 48 wins/year
1 50-win season
4 playoff series wins
1 WCF appearance

One MVP, two 2nd place, one 6th place
Average 41 wins/year
1 50-win season
3 playoff series wins
1 WCF appearance


One of those is Jokic 2018-2022. The other is Jordan 1985-1989. Are we going to claim late-80s Jordan didn't win enough to be considered a top-3 player now? If there was a specific player at the same talent level who was winning more then perhaps we'd have an argument. But Bron and Durant haven't done shyt in the playoffs the last two seasons and Kawhi stays hurt. Giannis and Steph have won recent titles but also had playoff disappointments, no one else in the "top 3" discussion has done anything more than Jokic has since 2020.

 

[Gotright]

People claiming Jokic isn't a top-3 player cause of "impact" are just hating. His impact is huge, that team would be pathetic without him.




Plenty of top-3 players have failed to have Finals-level supporting casts. Compare these two five-year stretches:

Two MVPs, one 4th place, one 9th place
Average 48 wins/year
1 50-win season
4 playoff series wins
1 WCF appearance

One MVP, two 2nd place, one 6th place
Average 41 wins/year
1 50-win season
3 playoff series wins
1 WCF appearance


One of those is Jokic 2018-2022. The other is Jordan 1985-1989. Are we going to claim late-80s Jordan didn't win enough to be considered a top-3 player now? If there was a specific player at the same talent level who was winning more then perhaps we'd have an argument. But Bron and Durant haven't done shyt in the playoffs the last two seasons and Kawhi stays hurt. Giannis and Steph have won recent titles but also had playoff disappointments, no one else in the "top 3" discussion has done anything more than Jokic has since 2020.

Giannis has done more since 2020. But yea jokic is most definitely top 3 entering the season

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Giannis has done more since 2020. But yea jokic is most definitely top 3 entering the season

That's what I said - Giannis and Steph have, but not anyone else in the discussion.

 

[Gotright]

That's what I said - Giannis and Steph have, but not anyone else in the discussion.

That’s the top 3 going into the season anybody think otherwise got an agenda

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That’s the top 3 going into the season anybody think otherwise got an agenda

I think there are fair arguments for KD or Embiid, with Luka and an imagined "healthy Bron" lurking. It's not easy cut-and-dried.

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And of course you can't leave out Karl-Anthony Towns.