Former NBA player and current analyst Jalen Rose claimed that Kawhi Leonard is currently the best player in the NBA on the show ‘Get Up'. Rose gave his reasons for ranking Leonard over LeBron James, insisting that Leonard's accomplishments last season pushed him past James for the time being:

” I can't go in to this years training camp and act like Kawhi Lenard didn't just go to the Raptors, and win the championship, Finals MVP, shoot down the Philadelphia 76ers, take out the Greek Freak, take out the Golden State Warriors without KD, and LeBron's team didn't make the playoffs? I gotta give Kawhi the number one spot right now…the king of the court has to be Kawhi.”

The controversy over James' ranking has ratcheted it up since an ESPN poll was revealed in which not one of 20 NBA personnel polled voted for James as the best player in the league.

To be fair to Rose, Leonard just had one of the most impressive postseason runs of all time. He nearly singlehandedly put the Raptors on his back and carried them to their first title. He deserves to have the number one ranking, at least until the season starts.

These rankings are fluid. As Rose mentions, it's like a game of musical chairs. And right now, Leonard is the last one standing.