00:00And this, look, you could debate it at home, you're going to lose if you have any debate
00:03over it.
00:04Uh-huh.
00:05The, as we stand here in the moment, the four best basketball players in the league today.
00:10Today.
00:11Okay?
00:11All right.
00:12This is a today list.
00:13This is not all-time list.
00:15Is this in order or just top four?
00:17I'm going to give it to you four, three, two, one.
00:20Okay.
00:20But I don't care if you want to change the order, but I think the point of this is these
00:25are the four guys and it's not really up for debate.
00:29Okay.
00:29That's the real purpose behind it.
00:32All right.
00:32So if you tell me you think the guy having won three, no kickback for me at all.
00:37Okay.
00:37You could change the order.
00:38You just can't change the people.
00:40Okay.
00:40That's the rule of this little game here.
00:42Okay?
00:42Uh-huh.
00:43So number four on my list is the two-time reigning MVP of the league, SGA.
00:49And the reason he's number four is because he's Canadian.
00:53Okay.
00:53All right.
00:54And I think I have reserved the top three spots for Americans.
00:58Okay.
00:58Or at least the top spot.
01:00I'm about to say.
01:01The top spot needs to be an American.
01:03Okay?
01:04Okay.
01:04Number three, I guess also not an American.
01:07He's a three-time MVP award winner.
01:10Should be a four-time, but we gave one to Joel Embiid to shut him up.
01:13And that, of course, is a joker.
01:15That's not how MVPs work.
01:17That's exactly how they work.
01:18That was, no, it wasn't.
01:19It was like, wah, another white European, wah.
01:22No, I know what this is.
01:24Wah.
01:24This is all the Knicks fans now.
01:26Get up another white guy winning an MVP award.
01:27Hey, now I'm Joel Embiid extra right now.
01:29Who deserved that MVP?
01:30By the way, Joel Embiid's a great player when he's healthy.
01:33He should not have been MVP that year.
01:34Yes, he should.
01:35He also has a better defender.
01:36And if Joker not won the two previous ones, he would have won that one.
01:38No, he wouldn't.
01:39But go ahead.
01:40By the way, just to show you how I'm fair about it, and it's not, to me, a black-white
01:44thing, Steve Nash stole both of his MVPs from Kobe Bryant or Shaq, to be fair.
01:49No, actually, if one of them, LeBron should have won.
01:52By the way.
01:53If you go back and look, he should probably go look.
01:56Probably not.
01:56He should probably go look.
01:57Probably not.
01:58He should probably go look.
01:59LeBron was already smoking the game.
02:01To be fair.
02:02Uh-huh.
02:02All right, so SGA, number four, Joker, number three.
02:05I'm very interested in two and one.
02:07Number two.
02:07Yeah.
02:08This is the only one you were to give me pushback on.
02:10Yeah.
02:10And I'm ready, and I'm ready for your pushback.
02:12Uh-huh.
02:13Because this guy has never even been to an NBA final, let alone been an MVP.
02:20Anthony Edwards is number three.
02:21He's not number three.
02:22That's not Anthony Edwards.
02:24Second best player.
02:25That's not Anthony Edwards on the field.
02:27That, by the way, does not look anything like Anthony Edwards.
02:29That's because it's not Anthony Edwards.
02:31Yeah.
02:31That, I mean, it might supposed to be.
02:33Is that Giannis?
02:33That's Giannis.
02:34But Giannis is not on my list.
02:35He should be.
02:36Okay, I don't know why, when I said to the guys, Anthony Edwards, they must have heard
02:41Giannis.
02:41No, no.
02:41The computer very well may have spit out.
02:44Or maybe we got a bunch of racists downstairs.
02:46All right?
02:46All right?
02:47All right?
02:47Right?
02:48Is that what they're saying?
02:49All right.
02:49It sounds to me like, I'll just pick a black guy.
02:52Anyway, Anthony Edwards is not the number two player on the league.
02:55Well, that shows Giannis.
02:56So you want to put Giannis number two?
02:57I don't.
02:58I can put Giannis close.
02:59Yeah, I can put Giannis two over Anthony Edwards.
03:01I don't.
03:02Yeah.
03:02I don't.
03:02So we got SGA, the two-time MVP, somehow fourth.
03:05Yeah.
03:06Jokic, you have a.
03:07I have Anthony Edwards there.
03:09Anthony.
03:09The mountain shows Giannis.
03:11I don't know why, but that's what it shows.
03:14Giannis Edwards, third, second.
03:16There you go.
03:17There you go.
03:18And now number one.
03:19And now we're at to number one.
03:20All right.
03:20So let me think about this now.
03:22You got to do what you got to do.
03:23You don't like Wemby, but he's in the argument.
03:26I mean, he was all NBA.
03:27I can't pick Wemby after the finals, obviously.
03:29Yeah, he just was too young to win.
03:31All right.
03:32Luka hasn't been named yet.
03:34LeBron hasn't been named yet.
03:36So you got a lot of top players.
03:37Let me help you out with that.
03:38You know full well, I'm not putting LeBron James as the best player in the league.
03:41Because he's not.
03:42Well, I don't know about that.
03:43There was a time when he was in that consideration.
03:45But he's not.
03:47He's not.
03:47All right.
03:48So take him off.
03:49All right.
03:49Wemby's off.
03:50That's correct.
03:51Luka doesn't play any defense.
03:52All right.
03:53So that's off.
03:54He also went to a finals and lost.
03:56So the only hint that we're going to give you is you have to have a championship ring
04:00to be on the list.
04:00Now, those guys all have championships other than Edwards.
04:05But that's Giannis.
04:06But Giannis has one.
04:07Yeah.
04:07Giannis has one.
04:08SGA's got one.
04:09Jokers got one.
04:10Giannis has one.
04:11Mm-hmm.
04:11So the guy that's the best player in the league has to have at least one, if not multiple,
04:18NBA championships to be crowned best current player in the NBA.
04:23Guy with a ring.
04:24A guy with a ring.
04:25He's got a ring.
04:25Yep.
04:26And he's got to be, he's the best player in the league.
04:28Mm-hmm.
04:28So I give you some choices, guys I considered.
04:32Jalen Brown was a consideration.
04:34He has a ring.
04:35Jason Tatum was a consideration.
04:37Oh, he's very, quite good.
04:37Okay.
04:38Obviously, Jalen Brown's also a finals MVP.
04:41And I'll give you a hint.
04:43My guy's a finals MVP also.
04:45So Jalen Brown, number one.
04:47That's who you went with.
04:48But I'd have no argument with Jalen Brown being in the conversation.
04:51I would have a gigantic argument.
04:51I know you hate him and he's got weird hair coloring that wipes off of people's jerseys.
04:55All that stupid Beijing and hating his teammates.
04:58He's not a good enough teammate to be number one.
04:59Yeah.
05:00Donovan Mitchell's never won a championship.
05:02Oh, no.
05:02I got it.
05:03Yeah.
05:03Kawhi Leonard.
05:04Kawhi Leonard.
05:05Champion.
05:06And was finals MVP.
05:07Yep.
05:07Great defender still.
05:08Yes.
05:09Kawhi.
05:09Made the shot to knock the Sixers out.
05:11Of course, that baseline jumper.
05:12That keeps coming up.
05:13The greatest player in the NBA today, as we sit here today, on June, what, 15th?
05:20Steph Curry.
05:21The day after flag day.
05:22Steph Curry.
05:22Steph Curry got absolute consideration.
05:25Absolute consideration.
05:27It's Jalen Brunson.
05:28What?
05:29Jalen Brunson is the best player in the NBA today.
05:34No.
05:34Because as great as those other guys are, there's nobody in the league, including those three
05:40guys on the mountain next to him, that you want with the ball in their hands to make a
05:44big shot down by one, 10 seconds to go.
05:47And the refs can't help you.
05:48It's you against the world.
05:50I need a bucket from you.
05:52That means whoever's guarding you, whatever their size is, whatever their age is, the referees
05:57are not on the court.
05:58I need you to get me a bucket.
06:01The only guy on that list that will guarantee me the bucket and the win is Jalen Brunson.
06:07To me, that's not the only metric, but that's a damn good metric to determine who you think
06:12the best player in the league is.
06:14He's got the nickname Captain Clutch for a reason.
06:17And when you drop 45 in game seven and you're taking everybody off the dribble, including the
06:23greatest defensive player we've probably ever seen when it's all said and done in the NBA
06:28in Wemby, Jalen Brunson right now is the goat of the NBA.
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