True but not as easy as it sounds

Not even the CIA would have brought me out to do that tbh 😭😭😭

thats how most teams operate now anyways

Like money aside at some point your pride gotta kick to where you never wanna have this s*** mentioned ever again lmao, let alone you speaking on it in a documentary

damn hurricane this weekend and i was supposed to move

s*** gonna move ur stuff for u

good point

In Boston area?

apparently

I couldn’t imagine. My heart goes out to you

hurricanes😭

If you find it on another site link me 👌

You failed him bro.

damn man you seem like a good dude and it hurts me to hear this, I'm rooting for you fr

u failed me bro howd u put mustard

I did so bad on this i didnt even bother finishing

Im sorry cam

Throughout the week, we’ve sorted the NBA’s best 125 players into five distinct tiers, differentiating solid starters from the league’s absolute superstars while offering insight on them and everyone in between. For a full summary of how the list is constructed and the metrics we rely on, refer back to our introductory story, which also includes Tier 5.
Tier 1: Players 1-7
PLAYER TEAM TIER LAST YEAR BORD$ EPM WINS EPM OEPM ODPM RAPM RANK ORAPM ORAPM RANK DRAPM DRAPM RANK
Giannis Antetokounmpo
MIL
1A
1A
$71.6
11.8
5.5
4.1
1.4
6.4
3
2.3
30
4.1
2
Kevin Durant
BKN
1A
1B
$34.8
6.2
4.9
4.6
0.3
6.5
2
5.5
2
1.0
95
LeBron James
LAL
1A
1A
$47.9
10.1
6.9
4.5
2.4
6.0
4
3.2
17
2.9
10
James Harden
BKN
1B
1A
$50.3
7.8
4.5
4.9
-0.4
5.0
9
4.7
3
0.3
231
Kawhi Leonard
LAC
1B
1A
$51.7
11.6
6.5
5.1
1.4
5.8
5
4.4
6
1.4
56
Nikola Jokic
DEN
1B
2A
$51.8
18.4
7.9
6.9
1.1
3.1
33
2.9
22
0.2
256
Stephen Curry
GSW
1B
1B
$34.5
14.6
6.9
7.5
-0.6
5.7
6
4.7
4
1.0
97
Tier 1. The cream of the crop. While having a player of this stature isn’t an absolute necessity in the quest for an NBA title, history suggests it is pretty damn important. Of the last 10 NBA champions, only the 2014 Spurs didn’t have a Tier 1 player at the time, and several (the 2012 and 2013 Heat and 2017 and 2018 Warriors, in my opinion) had two. The degree of difficulty for teams that don’t have a Tier 1 guy is just much higher.

From a cap economics standpoint, even if a Tier 2 player outperforms a 30 percent max contract, the squad with the Tier 1 player is still starting with a $10-15 million head start at modern salary levels. Moreover, as I discussed in the intro/Tier 5 on Monday, the differential in playoff impact between a (roughly speaking) top-five and a top-10 player is substantial. To overly simplify the equation, if the team with the best individual player is more likely than not to win any playoff series, Tier 1 players, especially Tier 1A players, will have that edge almost every time. Squads led by a Tier 2 star might make it a round or two before their biggest advantage is not only negated but perhaps even reversed.

Another feature of Tier 1 is that it tends to be pretty sticky. All six players from last year’s rankings return, with only one new addition. To paraphrase “The Wire,” the kings stay the kings. A wide range of players can have great, even All-NBA level, individual seasons, but Tier 1 performers are among the league’s best every season in which they are healthy. It’s not an accident that the seven players in this tier have combined for 11 of the last 13 MVP awards, with all save for Kawhi Leonard (who would have gotten my vote over Russell Westbrook in 2017 if I had one) receiving that honor at least once.

Still, even in this exalted category, there is a slight distinction to draw, so we’ll start with those who are just a few steps from the top of the mountain.

Tier 1B: Players 4-7

PLAYER TEAM TIER LAST YEAR BORD$ EPM WINS RAPM RANK
James Harden
BKN
1B
1A
$50.3
7.8
9
Kawhi Leonard
LAC
1B
1A
$51.7
11.6
5
Nikola Jokic
DEN
1B
2A
$51.8
18.4
33
Stephen Curry
GSW
1B
1B
$34.5
14.6
6
For the purpose of the tiers, I assume players are healthy; otherwise, those like Kawhi Leonard or Jamal Murray might drop off the list for a year entirely. As they recover from their respective ACL surgeries, neither player is likely to be especially helpful in next season’s title chase. So I don’t hold their injured status against them. However, with an injury as serious and perhaps as deleterious to playing ability as an ACL tear, the possibility of a diminution of ability results in slight downgrades.

Without that worry, Leonard would easily slot into Tier 1A. Heading into the 2020 bubble, I argued he was the best player in the world. That line of thinking took a little bit of a hit when Leonard underperformed and actually looked a little fatigued during Denver’s comeback from a 3-1 series deficit to eliminate Kawhi’s Clippers.

Prior to his knee injury against Utah, Leonard demonstrated himself to still be at the very top level. He’s turned himself into one of the great isolation scorers in the game, with his patience, strength and shooting ability allowing him to pick the opposition apart. He might not have the game-to-game defensive impact in the regular season as he did earlier in his career, though ranking 56th in dRAPM over the last three seasons is nothing to sneeze at. But in a playoff setting, he retains the ability to be a Mariano Rivera-like shutdown closer late in a series. This year’s first round against Dallas was a perfect case in point:

4/10 bet you cant guess what name is

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do i really seem like an islands kinda guy to yall? almost nobody guessed paris

I don't get it

that one is one of the generic ones so i never know i just click one lol