The Top-10 Players in the NBA 2021-22

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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The ninth annual look at which players we’d most want to have for a season followed by playoffs that started today. We’ve got big changes at the top as we track the evolution of the game’s best over the last year. Where do LeBron, Curry, Giannis, Kawhi, KD, Jokic, Embiid, Luka, Tatum and more rank? Plus our biggest risers and fallers over the past year, and projecting who those will be for next year as well.

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0:00.0	Well dear friends subscribers non subscribers though you really should subscribe to dunkdown prime as we get into the playoffs
0:07.0	There's never a better time with the playoffs and offseason draft all that stuff coming up to be a dunkdown prime
0:13.6	Subscriber linked to that in the show notes if you're on the public pod
0:16.6	But it's time now for the top 10 players in the NBA a yearly tradition. I have been doing this since 2014
0:22.9	It's been fascinating to see it evolve over the years a lot of changes from last year
0:28.5	Maybe the most volatile year that we've had I would say at least in my rankings
0:32.3	What about yours Danny? I actually have not looked yet at my rankings from last year
0:36.7	So I will have to tell you in a second, but it feels it does feel that way before I've looked at it
0:40.7	Yeah, yeah, well we'll get a live wreck
0:42.4	Well, there's one that I would say that you're a question on and that's part of why we do this at this time
0:47.4	Going into the playoffs. It's kind of supposed to be forward looking of course for those of it kept up with our position rankings
0:53.6	What we do here is we're saying everyone is healthy from whatever their latest injury is and we are pretending that a season is starting right now
1:01.6	A full NBA season plus playoffs afterwards
1:05.0	Who would we want to have on our team on a random team for an entire season plus playoffs that started right now
1:12.4	Assuming that everyone begins the season healthy and recurso. Kauai Leonard. He's recovered from his torn ACL
1:18.4	For example, but maybe he'll have a reduced performance because he's coming off in ACL tear
1:23.4	What else we need to talk about here by way of preamble there are important considerations on 82 game versus 16 game players
1:31.5	And it is great if you are both of those things because if you can be the best player in a playoff series
1:37.3	If your game fits well when you ramp up the quality of opposition
1:41.2	That and you can still do what you do or even be better that is fantastic if you are
1:46.6	Inconsistently available to a frequency that we think is persistent. So if that's you know
1:52.8	You're always going to miss 10 games a year 15 games a year and have a propensity for other injuries
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