Is Jalen Brunson now a Top 5 player in the NBA?

[ozgod]

ESPN's Bobby Marks thinks so. He says in his writeup on NY's postseason (he does writeups for every team that has gotten eliminated so far) that Brunson is a Top 5 player.

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https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/39854732/nba-offseason-2024-draft-trade-free-agency-guides-every-eliminated-nba-team#ny

Assuming Brunson is Top 5, who else makes up the Top 5 with him? I'm guessing Joker, Embiid, KD, and LeBum? I'm sure Bobby doesn't rate JT Top 5, probably not even Top 10 

[Who]

I saw another top 5 asking if Ant was now there. There was no Embiid and no Tatum.

They had Jokic, Doncic, SGA, Ant and Giannis.

[Who]

No, I do not think Brunson is a top 5 player.

I do think he had a top 5 season. I would like to see him on the First Team All-NBA. As I said in one of the other threads, I'd like to see him there instead of Giannis. He had no co-star like Giannis had and led his team to an equal (slightly better) season than Giannis. So I'd like to see Brunson get the nod there.

I am not sure if Brunson is a top 10 player either. I probably wouldn't go lower than top 15 though. Although some of that may depend on what you do with some of the golden oldies like LeBron, Durant and Kawhi.

[blink]

He's a really good scoring guard (probably the best), and really good at flopping.   But I don't think he is a top 5 player in the NBA, he isn't really a 2 way player, at least not to me.

[Goldstar88]

Might not be a top 5, but it’s pretty incredible what Brunson has been able to do as a 6’ guard. Last player that size to put up those type of numbers was Allen Iverson.

[Smartacus]

Clearly not top 5 since I do not think you could put him in any team and he would be guaranteed to replicate the success that. He’s found in NY.

Jokić, Doncic, Tatum Giannis, Embiid, SGA, and Ant have undeniable traits that could completely regardless of scheme or Roster construction.

Brunson is still great. Top 9-14 easy but I need more than his physical limitations can offer for top 5.

[trickybilly]

I think he's just saying that many people think that he's top 5.

Like a Trumpian "people are saying...", but people are actually saying

[SHAQATTACK]

Nope

[Roy H.]

Top-10, not top-5.

[Donoghus]

Top-10, not top-5.

I could get on board with that.  Def not top 5, though.