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Can Tyrese Haliburton be the best player on a championship team? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by pascaleon@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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If you're going to comment some generic answer about why do we always set unreal expectations for players I don't want to hear it. It's an NBA sub and I like the hypothetical.

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[–] Neuroxex@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe? I feel like people vastly underestimate how good the best player on a title team usually is. The last six Finals MVPs have been Jokic, Curry, Giannis, LeBron, Kawhi and Kevin Durant.

[–] WhoDatBrow@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Almost 100% of the time the best player on a championship team has to be an MVP level player. I'll go back to 2010 just to have a clean finishing point, but you can go back further too.

2010: Lakers (Kobe)

2011: Mavs (Dirk)

2012 and 2013: Heat (LeBron)

2014: Spurs (Duncan, but tbf this was mostly team ball)

2015: Warriors (Curry)

2016: Cavs (LeBron)

2017 and 2018: Warriors (Curry and KD)

2019: Raptors (Kawhi)

2020: Lakers (LeBron)

2021: Bucks (Giannis)

2022: Warriors (Curry)

2023: Nuggets (Jokic)

Every single one of those teams had a player who had won an MVP, except for the Raptors who had Kawhi, a guy who very well could've won an MVP if he had ever played enough in the regular season for it. With that in mind, the only players not on that list already I could see be the #1 on a championship team is Luka, Embiid, and Tatum. In the future I could see a few different people get to that level like Ja, Ant, even Zion if he ever stays healthy long enough to put it all together.

[–] TrRa47@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

All those teams are also stacked.

[–] whatitdobabyyy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If Halliburton was on a stacked team he wouldn’t be the best player on the team realistically.

I think Hali can be in of your max players on a championship team but maybe not the very best player on the team

[–] Philyeagles710@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah that’s why they won a championship.