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All right, welcome to Hoops tonight here at The Volume.

Happy Monday, everybody.

Hope all you guys had a great weekend. We are starting the top 10 of our player rankings today with number 10, Anthony Davis. Going to do a very deep dive into AD, some of the ups and downs of his career with relation to health, also with relation to his skill development. I even want to zoom out a little bit towards the end and talk about his perception of the center position versus the power forward position in some of the strengths and weaknesses of that approach and some of the things we got to keep an eye out for him with the Dallas Mavericks in that regard. And then at the tail end of the show, one of the things we're going to start doing, since we're only doing one player at a time from this point forward, is we're going to start hitting some bigger picture basketball debate types of topics. And today we're actually going to start with one that was a raging debate online last week while I was in Alaska. And I give you guys just a very quick kind of like 30,000 foot version of my opinion. But I wanted to kind of dive deeper into the concept. And it's about two basketball players, one of which is a champion, one of which is not. However, the player who's not a champion is a guy that I view as the better basketball player. And I want to kind of dive into that concept. It's Kyrie Irving versus Chris Paul and who I think is a better basketball player at their absolute peak. So we're going to dive into that at the tail end of the show. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Follow me on Twitter underscore Jason LT so you guys don't miss show announcements. Don't forget about our podcast for you wherever you get your podcast under Hoops tonight. It's also super helpful if you leave a rating and a review on that front. Jackson's also doing incredible work on our social media feeds on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, make sure you guys follow us there. And last but not least, if you disagree with any of these rankings in any way, shape, or form, where you're doing Friday mailbags throughout the remainder of this series where you guys have the opportunity to explain why you disagree,

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in our Friday mailbags throughout the remainder of this series. All right, let's talk some basketball.

So number 10, Anthony Davis, his last season in review played in just 51 games. We're going to talk

about AD and kind of his history with health here in a little bit. Came out guns blazing to start the year as he was very heavily featured in JJ Reddick's

offense early in the season. In his first 25 games, he averaged a super efficient

28 points per game to go with 3.2 steals plus blocks per game. He was legit playing

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