NBA News Roundup, Saturday, September 14th: Skip Bayless says LeBron James is no longer a Top-10 NBA player, Shaun Livingston retires and more

By Tristan Elliott

Modified Nov 08, 2022 11:44 GMT

LeBron's status as one of the NBA's best players has been questioned

Skip Bayless believes that LeBron James is no longer one of the NBA's best players

LeBron James will turn 35 later this year

Sports Illustrated released its annual list of the NBA's top players on Thursday, and LeBron James fell to third after spending the past five years at No. 1. LeBron's fall has been criticized by many, although noted NBA analyst Skip Bayless believes that James is no longer one of the NBA's top 10 players:

The only way your man (James) is number three is on reputation and projection. And I’ll give you the reputation, but I will not give you the projection because I saw what I saw last year... Kevin Durant is by far still the best player in the NBA & he deserves to be ranked No. 1. LeBron is not a Top 10 player right now... I'll give LeBron 11th.

During the 18-19 season, James averaged 27.4 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 8.3 assists per game.