The Most Improved NBA Players Of 2026 | Ep. 184
The Deep 3 Podcast
Isaac Gutierrez
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mo, what is one thing you think you improved upon this year? Sleep. Do you have better at sleeping? Yeah, man, deep sleep. Were you poured it before? To magnesium. Ah. Yep, got tapped into elthini. You got performance enhancing sleep drugs? Okay, I'm not talking about performing. No, none of that. I'm not with a part. No. It's quite fitting to something we'll talk about later today but before we get to that as you guys see about a title we are here today to talk about the most improved players across the NBA I asked you guys to give us your picks on who is the most improved player on your favorite team I pulled about 20 of them so we're not to do every single team sorry but that's a lot of players to talk about I'm gonna react to all your guys' picks, and we're not to do every single team. Sorry, but that's a lot of players to talk about. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm going to react to all your guys' picks, and we're going to talk about if we agree, which I think we probably will. We'll talk about a lot of these guys. And then we're going to say why we think they improved so much this year as in what was the main catalyst behind their improvement and how it changes, how we view them and their team going forward. Okay. |
| 0:52.6 | A lot of most improved players. |
| 0:54.9 | There's honestly a ton of good improved players this year. |
| 0:57.2 | It's actually quite a deep list. how we view them and their team going forward. Okay. A lot of most improved players. |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.1 | There's honestly a ton of good improved players this year. |
| 0:57.2 | It's actually quite a deep list compared to most years. |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.9 | It's going to be a lengthy conversation. |
| 1:01.2 | It will be because I think a lot of them change the outlook at the league in a lot of ways. |
| 1:04.0 | So we'll get into all that. |
| 1:05.0 | Let's do it. |
| 1:05.6 | And after that, you guys know how these Monday episodes work. We're going to go through all the biggest news of this past weekend that we missed since our last episode. A lot to dive into do today. Like you mentioned in that |
| 1:14.7 | intro, a lot going on. Cue the intro music. Let's yap. |
| 1:20.9 | We're throwing it back. |
| 1:23.6 | That's crazy. That's crazy. He was bragging. I hope you to say. The cranium is crazy. |
| 1:31.3 | Oh my God. |
| 1:33.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:34.3 | All right. |
| 1:35.3 | Crowd eaters rejoice. |
| 1:39.3 | So we're going to jump straight into it and get into the main topic of today's episode, reacting to your picks for the most improved players in the league. Let's get right into it. Let's talk about the first player on this list. Jumping into it, I think it's only right that we start with. My guy. Will Oates says, Scotty Barnes has turned into one of the best defenders in the league this season. It's not ridiculous. It's not crazy to look at Scotty Barnes this year and say, potentially, first team. All defense? First team all defense. This is obviously like, and whenever we say that about non-biggs, it's like, all right. Like, if the bigs weren't here, depending on what bigs play enough games, like, we'll have that. It really is just like that title just to say you are that caliber of defender. But legitimately, there's always at least one, at least like one non-big. And so, like, you know, you have your guys around the league, but Scotty Barnes has been at that level this year. He's the thing. Like, if you put them on that, if you put them on your ballot, it's not ridiculous. |
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