Ranking the top 10 point guards in today’s NBA…
5. Kyrie Irving
Age: 32
2024-25 Stats
- 23.9 PPG
- 4.8 APG
- 4.5 RPG
- Shooting splits: 48.1 | 43.5 | 89.4
Is Kyrie a point guard or a shooting guard? The same question was often asked about Philadelphia 76ers legend Allen Iverson.
Irving can be classified as a point or a two-guard. Probably, the ultimate description is that he’s a scoring point guard. It would be ironic to call the greatest ball handler of all time a shooting guard.
Irving proved last season — as the Dallas Mavericks made it to the NBA Finals — that he’s still one of the most dangerous guards in the world. Because Kyrie’s handles are so overwhelmingly good, he’s often underrated or underappreciated as a shooter. Case in point: Irving is shooting an absurd 43.5 percent from three so far this season.
It feels like Kyrie’s been playing in the NBA forever, but he’s still just 32 years old, meaning he could ostensibly keep playing at a high level for the rest of the 2020s if he wants to.
The fact that Irving wasn’t included as part of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team is one of the biggest basketball snubs in the history of the sport — right up there with Isiah Thomas being left off the Dream Team. Speaking of which … Irving was also glaringly omitted from the most recent iteration of Team USA for the Paris Olympics.
Regardless of the polarizing effect that Kyrie has on people, he continues to play at an elite level in 2024-25, which is why he’s still considered a top-five point guard in the game. Without Irving playing like an alpha over the past couple of months, there’s no way a Luka-less Dallas would have been able to stay afloat in the Western Conference as they have.
Kyrie is one of the NBA’s premier point guards until proven otherwise.
But who tops Kyrie as the fourth-best point guard in the game today? Find out below.
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