Thank you. Odds are Shai will be in that conversation, and deservingly so, by the end of this season. But he isn’t there yet.

Having a top 10 season doesn’t make you a top 10 player though. Those are are different lists entirely. If he drops off this year and doesn’t make an all star team/all nba or even the playoffs then it’ll prove he had a fluke season and that those top 10 rankings were silly. Until he makes it a consistent thing like Steph/Bron/Dame/Giannis/Joker/Tatum have he shouldn’t be considered a top 10 player.

So yes he had a top 10 season last year but right now I’d still take:

Joker, Giannis, Steph, KD, Bron, Luka, Tatum, Kawhi, Embiid, Jimmy, Dame, Booker, AD and maybe Ja over him (if all are healthy) for 1 season. So to me he is a top 13-15 player in the NBA right now. Not top 10 yet. But if he does it again then yeah he’ll be top 10.