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I think lauri markkanen is good too but I don’t think he deserves the number 1 spot rusty

jaylen brown all the way down to 27 is actually crazy

Towns over Jaylen is wild. It's pretty much impossible to have a championship level defense with towns on the floor whereas Jaylen is legitimately good. If you switch them around the celtics get worse and the timberwolves get wayyyyy better.

Jaylen Brown at 27 is probably the worst take i've seen this year. hes avg 27 on damn good efficiency and is the second best player on the best team in the league currently. Rusty's hate for JB is weird at this point. Im a lakers fan and i still give that man his credit.

You've massively underrated Jaylen Brown

Only complain I got: Jaylen Brown should be at least in the top 20. He's been All-NBA this year

Jarrett Allen not being on the list is kind of wild

Jaylen brown is wild I knew I wasn’t the only one after looking at the comments 😂😂 great video and list as always though

McCollum has actually been rough as hell this year from a scoring perspective. Sub 40% from the field, 33% from 3. He's been Ok I would say as a playmaker and PBH, and his defense has actually been solid. But overall I don't think he deserves top 50 recognition at this moment. This coming from a Pelicans fan. He's probably somewhere in the 60s realistically.

I’m a Pels fan so I wish what you said about CJ were true. He’s been really, really bad though. Think he will get it going again eventually. Really impressive they are 16-8 with how bad he’s been on offense. His shooting splits are atrocious. Jaylen Brown entirely too low based on this season. There aren’t 20 players who have been better than him so far this season.

KD deserves A TON of credit for keeping the Nets afloat despite the shit show that's been going on especially with him stepping up being a leader on defense

I get LeBron doesn’t feel like LeBron this year, but he’s not giving you 25/5/6 on 45% he’s giving you 26/9/6 on 47%

50 J Green 49 Cade 48 Mobley 47 Ayton 46 Banchero 45 Markannen 44 OG 43 Anfernee Simons 42 CP3 41 Jalen Brunson 40 Sabonis 39 Lavine 38 Beal 37 CJ 36 Lamelo 35 Holiday 34 Bam 33 Bane 32 Murray 31 Gobert 30 Antman 29 Demar 28 Middleton 27 Jaylen Brown 26 Fox 25 Haliburton 24 Ingram 23 KAT 22 Trae Young 21 Garland 20 Kyrie 19 Harden 18 LBJ 17 Paul George 16 Siakam 15 Zion 14 Jimmy Butler 13 Devin Booker 12 Dame 11 Shai 10 Donovan Mitchell 9 Ja morant 8 KD 7 Joel Embiid 6 AD 5 Tatum 4 Jokic 3 Luka 2 Steph 1 Giannis

I basically agree with most of this list. Of course there’s a few positions I would change around. Specifically DeRozan, Edwards, and CP3 being slightly to high for me, specifically DeMar. Also Jaylen Brown is pretty underrated. And while CJ is thriving bringing the ball up the court being more of a pg, he’s relatively inefficient. In fact he’s shooting sub 40% from the field, and subpar from three (granted on 6 attempts, but still could be better) so personally I would’ve put him a little lower. Also I would’ve put Jerami Grant and Jarrett Allen in place of Green and Cunningham. But other than a few nitpicks this list is great. Good job Rusty! EDIT: just checked the pin and you mentioned this so nvm

BROOK LOPEZ IS A TOP 50 NBA BASKETBALL PLAYER RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!! Leads the league in blocks, come on now…

Strongly disagree with Jaylen Brown at 27, he’s consistently playing incredible basketball on both sides of the floor on the best team in the league by far. He might be top 20, at the absolute bare minimum he’s top 25.

I think Jaylene Brown is too low. He is definitely better than D-Fox, Tyrese, BI and Kat who are all ranked ahead of him.

Love to see the Pascal support. Dude is a beast on both ends of the court and is a true first option with his killer mid range and vision

Jaylen brown is what people thought Paul George would be on the clippers

No better combo than "Giannis" and "Of Course"

Before I watch this, I really hope Jaylen Brown is in at the very least the top 25. He's averaging 27 7 and 4 on 50-35-84 splits *as the number 2 guy.* Edit: he's #27, which I don't agree with, but hey, I've seen other people rank him much lower just on the basis that he's a #2 guy so I guess this works.

The fact no one is talking about the underrating of kevin durant is crazy. Look at his numbers, he might be better than ever. 56.5% from the field is absolutely wild for a primary jump shooter, also averaging over 30,6 and 5

I do think JB needs to be higher. He's literally picked up the slack whenever JT has been off and his consistency has not been an issue really this season but all in all it is a great list nothing too controversial. Keep it up Rusty.

If Giannis ever leaves the Bucks, or some other weird scenario occurs, I’d love to see Giannis and Sir Jimmothy G Buckets III play together, the culture would be insane even if the spacing wouldn’t be.

Jaylen brown is 27…😂that just made the whole list invalid

Man it’s really interesting to me how much the league has changed in the past 2-3 years. The league is so talented, but we’re in a new era of basketball. It’s no longer the era lebron, steph (kinda) Kevin Durant and James harden. All these younger guys have came out of the blue and it’s their league now. It’s so strange to watch all these all time greats falling off to these young up and coming guys. I still can’t fully explain my thoughts on this, so I hope I got my point across.

Marcus Smart deserve a spot, and JB a top 20 player this szn

Loving that you really took the time to do this list and gave us 50 players this takes alot of time and effort to do !! And awesome content

Love all your content brother keep up the consistency please you keeping me busy when I'm not at work 🍃✌️🙏

Respectable list but like others have stated Jaylen Brown at 27 is egregiously low

Jaylen brown is a top 15 player

Jaylen is a top 20 player, Wiggins is s top 50 player, BI and Mccollum are higher than they deserve.

Jaylen Brown is a top 20 player in the NBA. Rusty needs to watch more Celtics games

As you've said rank lists are difficult to make because everyone has their own opinion, but the one that stood out to me is Jaylen Brown. He's the second best, sometimes the best player on the Celtics who are balling out. Offensively he has been amazing and his defense is still very good. I would put him around 18-22. Anyways, I've been watching you since you had less than 10K subs and you deserve every single one of them. Keep it up bro!

this list is insane lol. wiggins was the second best player on the title team, and has only improved in basically every facet of the game this year. didn't even crack the top 50? just wow.

While I’m not mad he’s not on the list, Jaren Jackson Jr. deserves a shoutout. Been playing amazing defense and shooting the 3 well and hasn’t had too much foul trouble so far

jaylen brown stays criminally disrespected holy shit

Rusty back at it with the heat

Great video! Appreciate the effort

I think Jaylen Brown is way too low for this ranking. He's on his way to All NBA this year, that's top 15.

Tyrese maxey deserves to be on here. Unless if the recent injury disqualified him

going by this season jaylen brown is way too low bro wtf

Sabonas and Jaylen way underrated

Wait what Fox, Ingram,tyrese,garland, KAT over jaylen is wild asf

Brook Lopez deserved a spot here. That's my hottake

The KD disrespect is unreal

remember when people thought that pascal Siakam and Jayson Tatum where on the same tier

I think you could bump up Pascal Siakam a few spots he's really been amazing this year and I feel like he makes that team go on offense most times.

Lmfao Jaylen brown at 27 is craaaazy

that’s wild that kawhi has played more than lamelo but he’s not losted

Props for Jacob for making this list

Jaylen has been crazy this year he is low 20s high teens

Rusty the cutest NBA KZfaqr in the game right now. LMAO 🤣

As someone who hasn't really been in the loop for a couple seasons, this list is absolutely wild.

I never thought I would ever hear rusty say Justin Herbert but it happened

I was about to say Jarrett Allen should be on this list but looks like you already know lmao. Clevelands offense and defense is completely different without him.

I admit this may be the home bias in me, but think Jaylen Brown at 27 is wild, and Smart deserved at spot on this list too. But other than that and few small disagreements, this list is pretty solid

My main takeaway is that the NBA is historically talented right now. I get that the NBA is pretty offense-friendly at the moment but so many of the players ranked in the 20-50 range would have been perennial all-NBA players years ago. Exciting times.

All I got from this is DAM this league talented💀 although I think your underrating KD. At the end of the day it’s still early in the season many players stats a still inflated and I do believe it’ll cancel out by the end. Great video as always

SGA not being in the top 10 whilst averaging 30pts on 50 40 90 is wild

i just made a list like this in 7th period today lol insane timing

The heat are a really interesting team, please don’t avoid covering them. I feel like everyone ignores the team (at times understandable because they’ve been ravaged by injuries all season) but hopefully they can become more consistent

I would personally have Kyrie in my top 10 but the lowest I can go, unbiased, is 15. Everyone from 14 down (or up depending how you interpret it) has a legitimate case, but Kyrie is better than 15-19 on your list. Easily.

Tbh. If the nba were to expand and get 2 new teams now would be a great time

I would like to say Shai does have a three pointer he just doesn’t get to shoot them, his three is either a step back or a pull up when he gets a little bit of space and he doesn’t get to shoot them a lot because the defense is focused on him

Watching this video warmed my heart, seeing rusty speak positively about siakam. After watching everyone shit on him for two years

Thx for the OG love rusty ❤

Should put Franz Wagner in there for sure. Best player on the Magic rn

You nailed the top 3. The rest will be debatable, but lots of good reason for players being placed in their spots. Dope list!

Why would you say you'd never do another list? They change every season and hell its good content. Although i will say a quarter of the way through the season is a bit early

Brown is honestly in top 20

I hate when people say steph is outperforming himself from his MVP seasons, people act like the reason he won those MVP’s wasint because he was leading the best team who was consistently putting up 60-65 plus win seasons, now his team is 500 of course his stats r gonna be better don’t let any social media nonsense trick u into thinking he’s having as good or better of a season then his MVP season

I would put LeBron higher he really have a quite big impact on the game still.

Love the vid rusty

As all NBA fans, we like making these lists and this one is not bad at all. At least all the players on here are currently (or formerly) top NBA talents, so Rusty-man has done a succesful job, with (as always) quality narration overall. Now for the criticism, which was to be expected; let's start with the names I'm missing on the list: Jarett Allen - As you mentioned, he is the most impactful defender on the Cavs and a perfectly fine offensive center too. Jeremi Grant - He has been low-key one of the most complete players in the league, like a younger version of PG. Great defense, can score efficiently from anywhere and can carry a heavy load when other stars are missing. Wiggins - Somewhat similar to Grant as a player, he doesn't look as gifted as Jeremi Grant, who has beautiful form, but he is almost as effective. Great from 3 (especially this year), probably one of the best, most versatile defenders and a great mentality overall. He works insanely hard during his minutes on the court and impacts every game. Brook Lopez - Probably an underrated pick for most people, but he has one of his best defensive seasons yet. He is averaging nearly 3 blocks a game, while still being effective on offense. Finally, Ingram should be higher. If you follow the Pels, you know their succes in the last games has not been as dependant on him but on Zion for a change. Zion has been great, his gravity due to his scoring prowess and matchup nightmares, combined with his playmaking and decisionmaking make for a fantastic and hard to stop combination. Ingram is exactly like that, while not as much of a matchup nightmare as Zion, he can litterally light it up from anywhere and has even better playmaking and decisionmaking out of those double or triple teams he faces. Like Rusty said, his defense is also way better and so far he is shooting a scorching 46.7% from three. The main reason I think he should be high, is that his offense always works. Unlike a lot of other people on this list, that can get slowed down a whole lot, he and Zion fits that mold of player that always seem to find their shot, or an open teammate. This is exactly why Luka is so good, or even Curry, they are not just insane scorers themselves, they see the floor and find the open man when they are doubleteamed. It is stretchable offense, it works even against good defenses and holds up even in the playoffs.

Im surprised Kristaps Porzingis did not make the list if it is based on this season. If you ask wizards fans they will tell you he has been their best player this season over Bradley Beal which you ranked 38

Wow what a terrible list. Brown got to be higher in the teens at least. You put random players on this list, but not others. Barrett, Jerami Grant, Jarret Allen, Smart got to be on the list.

I new he'd have KD that low before even clickin the video. That man is the whole Nets boat and putting up absurd numbers.

Thanks Rusty for the 40 minute video

No wiggins is kinda crazy, he’s averaging 19/5 on 51/45 splits with elite defence. I know the warriors have been bad and his numbers don’t jump off the screen, but he’s been the only consistency the warriors have had this season outside of curry. Phenomenal efficiency and defence, consistently comes up in big moments, he’s definitely a top 50 player.

Ok but Russell Westbrook averaged a triple double

I'm less surprised by how high Siakam is than I am by how low Paul George is. That dude is consistently underrated.

the only reason im not worried about miami is because ik they are more of a playoff team even if they play bad as long as they've made it to the playoffs they will go off this is the same for golden state.

I don’t understand how dudes like cp are over dudes like anfernee when we are talking about this season

I’ve been watching 40ish regular season Bucks games and all Bucks playoff games for the last two seasons. Still don’t understand why this “Giannis has no bag” talk keeps happening Is his primary method of dominance his physical gifts? Yes but he’s far from the first superstar to do that and even today and recent times he isn’t the only one Does Giannis sometimes see red and revert to just using his physical gifts rather than the skills he has developed in the last few years? Yes, but again that happens

No way kd isn’t top 5 with the hand he was dealt with😂

Great list

Did i miss Andrew Wiggins? Or is he not on the list? Bcuz if not then that would be crazy

kevin durant percentage wise is a top 10 defender currently bruh how does he not contribute anything on defense? casual take tbh

Not having brook Lopez on this list is blasphemy. Dude is leader for DPOY this season. Most blocks by a wide margin and scores at a higher clip than a lot of people on this list. Absolutely over looked. He honestly deserves Allstar this year.

He put Lavine at 39 and said he is trash right after

Im the biggest Embiid "Hater" and Jokic fan but still think Embiid should be above AD. But as you said 9-6 (personally I would include Mitchell aswell) are interchangeable

Love that Pascal was recognized

not saying its not true but hearing lebron on 18 just sounded not valid

idk how I feel about Rusty putting Coby White number 1

I will embrace this list! Although I will say as a warriors fan it is depressing not having anyone else other than steph in your list. No wiggins, klay, draymond, OR poole mentioned anywhere. Just goes to show how god-awful the warriors would be if steph wasnt there and also how valuable this finals mvp was.

bam, jrue need to be ranked higher & marcus need to be on the list; jaylen brown in the top 15-20

Giving Deni Avdija all 50 spots is bold Rusty but I agree.

SABONIS SHOOTING 40% from 3 for those wondering