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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Small Forward Rankings 2024-25

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Danny joins to discuss the small forward position. Is it Luka or Tatum at #1? Where do the old lions LeBron James, Jimmy Butler, and Kevin Durant fall? Who is the best of the young risers like Cade Cunningham, Franz Wagner, and Jalen Williams? Which three-and-D skillsets do we believe in?

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0:00.0

Welcome on to Dunkton and Dunkton Prime. Thanks so much for subscribing. I want to remind

0:05.5

everyone that we've got a free newsletter. If you're listening on the public feed that you can

0:10.7

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0:16.7

Okay, let's get to work here, Danny, on our small forwards.

0:21.6

And let's remind everyone briefly, because this is our first public pod on the episode of how it is that we are doing this.

0:29.7

The criteria here is we're imagining a single season, regular season plus playoffs that starts today.

0:37.1

So it's what player you'd like for that

0:38.2

purpose. This is not future rankings. And also, there are a lot of other things that we can

0:43.8

mention. But in terms of health, we remove any current injuries that aren't like recurring and all

0:51.0

that kind of stuff. But we are, but a player's propensity for injury,

0:56.6

you know, that that gets considered because that is something that can persist, unfortunately.

1:00.1

That's right. And the reason that we do this is because we want to see where these guys

1:05.6

really fall in the league, because that matters in terms of the replaceability of skill set.

1:09.6

We want to see where maybe there is a cliff if you're going to pay someone where, hey, you know what, we just can't replicate this if we don't pay this guy.

1:18.3

Or no, you know what?

1:19.5

We could find 80% of this production.

1:21.7

I would actually say that historically small forward has been the position at which you can't really find that kind of production

1:29.3

once you go below a certain level. That's why it's the most valuable position. Actually,

1:34.2

we'll see if you agree with this, was impressed at the depth at the position this year. You got

1:38.9

some old lions who are still hanging on and some new players who have popped up. Another thing I

1:43.8

want to say, too, in terms of the position, there are going to be some guys

1:47.0

here, Luca Dantzich is going to be one, who is listed as a guard.

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