Tiers in the NBA

[BigKAT]

I've seen some people discussing the word Superstar.

I'll just put these tiers here, you're encouraged to disagree and re-arrange them as you wish, you can also use different players.


Good Starters:
Ibaka, Crowder, Current Tony Parker, KAT (right now)

Borderline All Star:
Kemba Walker, Deandre Jordan, Mike Conley, Gordon Hayward

All Star level and beyond:
John Wall, Kevin Love, Draymond Green, Blake Griffin, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Paul George and so on.

Superstars ( The absolute peak of the league, the Mt.Rushmore of current players)

Kevin Durant
Lebron James
Steph Curry
Kawhi Leonard (Not my orignal opinion but people made me buy into it.)

[TommyGriffin]

Kyrie Irving is a superstar. Kevin Love used to be a superstar as well.

[BigKAT]

Kyrie Irving is a superstar.

Your opinion is appreciated.

Have a wonderful day.

[aj1987]

Your opinion is appreciated.

Have a wonderful day.

[FreezingTsmoove]

Look man if you can absolutely destroy a 73 win team in the finals you are a superstar

Sure Kyrie had a lackluster regular season but he was coming off a bad injury

Lets not forget years prior to that he was an all star and even an all star starter

He is a superstar

So is Lebron, KD, Curry but thats it in my opinion. Pretty weak era if you ask me but I think the league will be very strong next year

[Real Cavs Fan]

Irving isn't as good as LeBron, KD, and Curry but he is getting close. I wouldn't object if people want to label him as a superstar.

[FreezingTsmoove]

Irving isn't as good as LeBron, KD, and Curry but he is getting close. I wouldn't object if people want to label him as a superstar.

I agree all he needs is to have a great regular season this year and the superstar label will not be debatable

[NBAGOAT]

you have westbrook and paul as superstars right?

[BigKAT]

I agree all he needs is to have a great regular season this year and the superstar label will not be debatable

Kyrie is a supernova on offense.
One of the best in the league in putting the ball in the basket.

I'm just saying he's not top 5.
People are overeacting.

But yeah, no need to argue over semantics.
There's no doubt that in the next season, or perhaps the one after it, Kyrie could definetly be a top5 player in the league.

Heck, I could honestly see him nabbing an MVP in his prime.
(That dude is just 24, jesus.)

[BigKAT]

you have westbrook and paul as superstars right?

I'm not a 100% sure on WB since he was 2nd fiddle this year.
I need to see him as 1st option again.

CP3, I think so, yeah.

[Young X]

A superstar to me is basically a guy who is a legit MVP candidate type of player. So if they ended up winning an MVP you wouldn't be that surprised.

[CTbasketball92]

I've seen some people discussing the word Superstar.

I'll just put these tiers here, you're encouraged to disagree and re-arrange them as you wish, you can also use different players.


Good Starters:
Ibaka, Crowder, Current Tony Parker, KAT (right now)

Borderline All Star:
Kemba Walker, Deandre Jordan, Mike Conley, Gordon Hayward

All Star level and beyond:
John Wall, Kevin Love, Draymond Green, Blake Griffin, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Paul George and so on.

Superstars ( The absolute peak of the league, the Mt.Rushmore of current players)

Kevin Durant
Lebron James
Steph Curry
Kawhi Leonard (Not my orignal opinion but people made me buy into it.)

I think James Harden is a superstar. 29 and 7 w. a 60 TS%. His 2015 was amazing. I think he'll be MVP level again this year.

[CTbasketball92]

I've seen some people discussing the word Superstar.

I'll just put these tiers here, you're encouraged to disagree and re-arrange them as you wish, you can also use different players.


Good Starters:
Ibaka, Crowder, Current Tony Parker, KAT (right now)

Borderline All Star:
Kemba Walker, Deandre Jordan, Mike Conley, Gordon Hayward

All Star level and beyond:
John Wall, Kevin Love, Draymond Green, Blake Griffin, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Paul George and so on.

Superstars ( The absolute peak of the league, the Mt.Rushmore of current players)

Kevin Durant
Lebron James
Steph Curry
Kawhi Leonard (Not my orignal opinion but people made me buy into it.)

I just don't see Draygod being in the same class as Blake Griffin, Kyrie or Wall or PG. Dude is Lamar Odom in the perfect system. Everyone loved his game 7 performance, but he was left open on literally all of those buckets, and really, he shouldn'tve been so trash in games 4 and 6. If he were in the same class as blake griffin and matched up against such piss poor offensive power forwards or an over-exerted lebron, Blake griffin would've dominated. LMA would've had a few 40 point games against the Cavs. GSW would've definitely won if they had Paul George. Wall wouldn'tve helped much. Bottom line, Draymond is maybe an all star.

[Young X]

I just don't see Draygod being in the same class as Blake Griffin, Kyrie or Wall or PG. Dude is Lamar Odom in the perfect system. Everyone loved his game 7 performance, but he was left open on literally all of those buckets, and really, he shouldn'tve been so trash in games 4 and 6. If he were in the same class as blake griffin and matched up against such piss poor offensive power forwards or an over-exerted lebron, Blake griffin would've dominated. LMA would've had a few 40 point games against the Cavs. GSW would've definitely won if they had Paul George. Wall wouldn'tve helped much. Bottom line, Draymond is maybe an all star.

This is because you're just looking at offense.

He's not a better scorer than anybody you just mentioned. We all know that.

It's what he does on defense and rebounding that makes him that good. He is the most impactful defender in the league.

His decent but limited scoring and passing are secondary to what he brings on defense.

[Tking714]

Only superstars in the NBA are

Lebron
Davis
Durant
Harden
Westbrook
Curry (the most debatable)

Then there's a drop. Irving is a notch below with Butler, Griffin, Wall, Paul, Cousins, George, Klay, Kawhi, might be missing someone.

Then there's another drop for guys like Derozan, Love, Aldridge, etc.