Why Haliburton, Tatum, & Anthony Edwards Are the NBA’s Most Interesting Stars | ALL NBA PODCAST

But we're gonna talk about most interesting star, most interesting sidekick, and most interesting role player.

And let's start with the most interesting star.

This doesn't necessarily be- mean the best star, but it's a star that has a, a year ahead that has a lot of questions and a lot of intrigue.

So we each made lists of players, but I wanna start with who you settled on as your most interesting star.

So I have pretty long lists for most of the categories we have in this first segment.

I, uh, I had a pretty short list for most interesting star.

And you know, it kind of actually brought me back to the conversation we had on Monday about how we're in this weird kind of period with the star talent in the NBA where it kind of feels like a gap where there's this group of young players that's not ready yet, but there's like this older established group.

So many of the guys that I have in my quote-unquote star tier, we know exactly what they are.

We know exactly what they do.

Agreed.

There's not a whole lot of like intrigue surrounding them going into this season.

But there's two guys, and they're both guys coming off of Achilles tears that I looked at.

[laughs]

Jason Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton.

I wanna talk about Jason Tatum a little bit later.

I ended up settling on Tyrese Haliburton.

It's a great call.

I remember I had a, I had a question from, a mailbag question when I did my player rankings two summers ago where someone said like, "Hey, you know, Tyrese Haliburton's not on your list.

Makes sense.

He's hurt." You know, my, my player rankings are designed to be like who would be the best for this upcoming season, so obviously Tyrese had to get left out.

But he was like, "Where would you have put Tyrese if he didn't tear his Achilles?" And I- if I remember correctly, it was either eight or nine, but I settled on him being a top 10 player in this league.

And, uh, it kinda reminds me of the conversation we had about Steph Curry on Monday and how you and I just both value these like offensive engine-

Yeah

... types that drive team success.

Not individual statistical produ- production, but team success.

But we're gonna talk about most interesting star, most interesting sidekick, and most interesting role player.

And let's start with the most interesting star.

This doesn't necessarily be- mean the best star, but it's a star that has a, a year ahead that has a lot of questions and a lot of intrigue.

So we each made lists of players, but I wanna start with who you settled on as your most interesting star.

So I have pretty long lists for most of the categories we have in this first segment.

I, uh, I had a pretty short list for most interesting star.

And you know, it kind of actually brought me back to the conversation we had on Monday about how we're in this weird kind of period with the star talent in the NBA where it kind of feels like a gap where there's this group of young players that's not ready yet, but there's like this older established group.

So many of the guys that I have in my quote-unquote star tier, we know exactly what they are.

We know exactly what they do.

Agreed.

There's not a whole lot of like intrigue surrounding them going into this season.

But there's two guys, and they're both guys coming off of Achilles tears that I looked at.

[laughs]

Jason Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton.

I wanna talk about Jason Tatum a little bit later.

I ended up settling on Tyrese Haliburton.

It's a great call.

I remember I had a, I had a question from, a mailbag question when I did my player rankings two summers ago where someone said like, "Hey, you know, Tyrese Haliburton's not on your list.

Makes sense.

He's hurt." You know, my, my player rankings are designed to be like who would be the best for this upcoming season, so obviously Tyrese had to get left out.

But he was like, "Where would you have put Tyrese if he didn't tear his Achilles?" And I- if I remember correctly, it was either eight or nine, but I settled on him being a top 10 player in this league.

And, uh, it kinda reminds me of the conversation we had about Steph Curry on Monday and how you and I just both value these like offensive engine-

Yeah

... types that drive team success.

Not individual statistical produ- production, but team success.