Two years ago, as Jalen Brunson emerged as an All-Star point guard for the NBA's New York Knicks, the head coach of the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces, Becky Hammon, declared on an ESPN panel, "If your best player is small, you’re not winning. John Stockton, Allen Iverson, Steve Nash. You could go down the list."
"Steph Curry is the only one," she said, and she was mostly right, excepting Isiah Thomas, among others.
Guards, especially small ones, have rarely led their teams to championships in the NBA.
"And I love Jalen Brunson," added Hammon, "but you’re gonna put him on the level of a 1A?