Fresh off a team change in the offseason, Mavs center DeAndre Jordan's ESPN ranking has taken a massive slide after only one season, going from 30th last season to 80th heading into 2018-19.

The list, which was curated by an ensemble of ESPN beat writers and national columnists, aims to reflect the player's potential going into the season.

ESPN's Tim MacMahon justified Jordan's ranking due to his decline at the defensive end during his last season with the LA Clippers:

Jordan, finally in Dallas a few years after leaving the Mavs at the free-agency altar, remains one of the NBA's most dominant athletic specimens. He leads the NBA in dunks (1,189) over the past five seasons by a wide margin and ranks a close second to Detroit's Andre Drummond in rebounds (5,684) over that same span.

There has been no sign of decline in those two facets of his game, but the two-time All-Defensive selection did slip significantly on that end of the floor in his final season for the Clippers.

Jordan will likely have a problem with this ranking after having snatched a career high in rebounds (15.2), though he fell just short of a rebounding title thanks to the board-gobbling Andre Drummond.

While Jordan's field goal percentage dipped below the near-automatic 70-plus percent he put up during the prior three seasons, he improved massively at the free-throw line by nearly 10 percentage points.

Sure, Jordan's blocks per game were nearly cut in half, going from 1.7 in 2016-17 to a shade under one per game, but the ability is certainly still there, especially in a contract year like this one will be.