With Gordon Hayward no longer calling Salt Lake City home, Rudy Gobert is now the clear No. 1 player for the Utah Jazz. It’s a no contest now. But if you still like to debate who is the better, more valuable player to his team between the two stars, let Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 rankings give you a tasty starting point of discussion.

Sports Illustrated has released the latest installment of its countdown from No. 30 to No. 11. The chapter begins with Hayward’s Boston Celtics teammate Al Horford. Hayward finds himself at No. 16, which incidentally is a notch lower than Gobert, who is No. 15 on the list.

That could come as a bit of surprise to some, knowing that Hayward was the face of the Jazz's franchise before he bolted for Beantown.

Writer Ben Golliver wrote about Gobert, citing the lanky Utah center’s defensive brilliance and along with the big man’s underappreciated offensive game.

While the basketball intelligentsia now unanimously views Gobert (14 PPG, 12.8 RPG, 2.6 BPG) as one of the league’s elite defensive players, numerous statistical measures consider him one of the league’s elite players, period. The NBA’s leading shot-blocker and Defensive Player of the Year runner-up rebounded from a knee injury that marred his 2015-16 season to deliver a career year across the board in 2016-17. The 25-year-old center helped lead the Jazz to their first playoff series win since 2010 and set new career-highs in scoring, rebounds, blocks, and FG% while ranking second league-wide in Win Shares and eighth in both Real Plus-Minus and WARP. All things considered, Gobert was 2017’s biggest All-Star snub.

Rob Mahoney, on the other hand, penned the reasoning behind why Hayward is on the list. Mahoney mentioned Hayward’s multi-faceted game as someone who’s capable of finding his own way to score with the ball in his hand and just as well when he’s moving off the ball. Mahoney also praised the new Celtic forward’s defense, though, of course, he’s not as valuable on defense as Gobert has been to the Jazz.

Painstaking development has given Hayward’s game layer upon layer, to the point that he’s become one of the most complete wings in the league. Offense could be run to feature Hayward sprinting around screens or isolating his defender, reading an opening for a backdoor cut or threading a pass to a teammate who had done just that. His evolution has made him both a real threat and a compelling decoy—a combination that Quin Snyder and the Jazz used to great effect last season. Players like Hayward make an offense ripe for misdirection.

Hayward has a proven track record guarding both wing positions at a high level and is strong enough to dabble at power forward if the situation calls for it.

Not a few people would disagree to the fact that SI ranked Gobert higher than Hayward, but no matter how these experts rank players, there’ll always be some who’d raise issues about it. In any case, both Gordon Hayward and Rudy Gobert would probably exchange their lofty rankings for a ring.