On Thursday, Sports Illustrated posted a list of their top 10 NBA players to finish their top 100 list for the 2016 season. Anthony Davis was ranked third, ahead of Stephen Curry and James Harden but behind Kevin Durant (#2) and LeBron James (#1). Below is their reasoning:
The tradeoff in giving Kevin Durant the benefit of the doubt as the No. 2 player in our rankings is that it underrates Davis. Fit this one with an asterisk for upward mobility; no other player in the NBA can quite match Davis’s plausible upside as a still-growing 22-year-old MVP candidate.