ESPN guest panelist Max Kellerman nearly sent co-panelists Mike Greenberg and Jalen Rose upside down on their chairs after claiming he didn't know how long Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant would last as a top-five player in the league. Rose got first dibs to take a crack at dismantling Kellerman for the insolence during Wednesday's iteration of ESPN's morning show Get Up!

Kellerman: “I think more importantly… I don't know for how much longer Kevin Durant will be a top-five player and it's not even about his age.”

Rose: “Hmmm?”

Kellerman: “LeBron James is better than Kevin Durant by a whole lot, I think [Anthony Davis] is the second-best in the world, unless Kawhi Leonard is healthy and then I don't know. And then you have Giannis, who already is on that level, God forbid his jumper starts to fall, that puts KD at five, maybe — like right now the fifth-best player in the world. That means if Ben Simmons gets a jumper or if Joel Embiid starts moving his feet a little more on defense in the playoffs, he might not even be in the top-five.”

Rose couldn't contain himself after hearing such blasphemy, given that the five aforementioned players have not reached the NBA Finals during the last four seasons.

Greenberg: “Jalen, if you will.”

Rose: “Max, you're sitting here saying that Kevin Durant is gonna be outside the top-five of players in the NBA?… The other thing is, when you start to become that level of great, you gotta start taking winning into account. So for somebody like Giannis, he does have that level of talent, but at some point he has to lift his basketball team. Ben Simmons isn't even the best player, guess where? On his own team! That happens to be Joel Embiid.

Kevin Durant has etched himself in my opinion as the second-best player in the NBA…. Here is KD — 50-40-90 consistently. He's been an MVP, he's been a four-time scoring champ, and he's proven to me that he could be the best player on the best team. So much so, that he's won two championships. And guess who got Finals MVP?”

Durant has been in the top-two debate for quite a while now, but to take him off the top-five is outright ludicrous, given his accomplishments and body of work.

Does Jalen Rose have a point here factoring winning as the main bar separating Durant from James? Or was this just a hot take from Kellerman that just didn't hold any water?

Tell us in the comments.