LeBron’s Fall, International Dominance, and More: NBArank 2023, Explained

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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There is probably no sport susceptible to more debate in the American consciousness than the NBA. It feels inescapable; the discussions comparing player’s legacies, the debates about who’s the best, and the chatter around who’s got next. But today, ESPN’s NBArank returns for another installment, hoping to settle all questions once and for all (well, for this upcoming season at least). Kevin Pelton takes us inside this exercise: one that includes more than 150 journalists working to decide who the top 100 players in the league are…and some of the results may surprise you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kevin Pelton, ESPN's NBA rank is back for another season, and I'm guessing that your
0:09.6	timeline is filled with calm, rational, well thought out responses, right?
0:14.8	Yeah, I mean, everyone's always just more excited about the players that you have higher
0:19.9	than they were thinking, and they really just don't pay very much attention at all to
0:23.6	anyone who's lower than they expected.
0:25.7	Yeah, so with that said, I want to offer my own objective, completely journalistic
0:29.9	response as someone who went to Davidson College with Stefan Curry.
0:33.6	I see that he's not a number one this year, so my question is, how dare you?
0:39.8	You know, I think it's a little harder this year now that he's not coming off of a
0:43.6	finals MVP like he was a year ago.
0:46.0	Yeah, I, you know, I understand that this is an industry exercise.
0:50.5	It's not just you, I'll leave you alone.
0:53.2	I'm not going to let everybody pile onto your mentions, even though you've decided to stand
0:56.8	out here in front of it all and take it.
0:59.9	So everybody spreads some of that anger and celebration around to a bevy of different
1:05.5	journalists who've come together for this.
1:07.2	The whole panel is almost 150 people, so I don't think you can fit all of those in reply.
1:14.1	Well, I don't know, who knows what the new Twitter settings are.
1:16.7	Maybe you can just tag everybody and see what happens.
1:23.5	When it comes to basketball, we're obsessed with comparisons and rankings.
1:29.6	It's always some variation of LeBron versus Kevin Durant or LeBron versus
1:34.2	Stefan Curry, or it's arguing about who's the top five player in the lead.
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