Do You Still NEED a Top-5 Player to Win an NBA Championship?

Do you still need a top-five NBA player to win a championship? Recent champions have challenged one of the league’s oldest team-building rules, and Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore and Haize debate whether having an elite superstar is still the best path to a title — or whether teams are better off building deeper, more balanced rosters around stars such as Jalen Brunson and Jayson Tatum.

Then, should the Indiana Pacers regret trading for Ivica Zubac? The guys revisit the massive deadline deal now that Indiana lost its 2026 first-round pick and debate whether judging the trade by what that pick became is fair.

Finally, we reach peak offseason content: Which NBA players, past or present, belong on the Mount Rushmore of guys you’d most want to have a beer with?

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