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BFW's Top 10 NBA List Sparks A Health Debate With Cheah

By JR·2 min read
BFW's Top 10 NBA List Sparks A Health Debate With Cheah

TLDR: Brandon Walker put his current NBA top 10 candidate pool on the timeline, and Steven Cheah immediately tried to bench three of the biggest names over health.

  1. BFW wasn't buying the health argument. His reply was short and direct: Giannis and Tatum are close enough to healthy to be ranked. That's the crux of it. If you punish a top-5 talent for a recovery timeline, you end up with a list full of healthy-but-clearly-lesser guys, and suddenly Jaylen Brown is in your top 10 over a two-time MVP. That feels wrong even if Cheah's logic is internally consistent.

    Brandon Walker
    Brandon Walker
    @BFW

    @StevenCheah Giannis and Tatum are close enough to healthy to be ranked.

    The honest answer is somewhere in the middle. Jokic, SGA, Wemby, Luka, and Brunson are locks on any version of this list. Giannis and Tatum belong on talent — you don't fall out of the top 10 because of a recovery window. The real fight is the back half: Ant vs. Cade vs. Kawhi vs. Steph vs. Mitchell vs. Jaylen Brown, with KAT and LeBron as the bubble names nobody wants to commit to anymore. BFW will land his 10. He just has to decide whose feelings he's willing to hurt.

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