I looked at some stats. Trae Young has only played 6 seasons and has 3868 assists and 10379 points. If we extrapolate the for a 13 year career he’ll finish with 8K assists and 21K points.
Players who have achieved those totals: LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, and Oscar Robertson. Guys like Luka and Harden will likely reach those totals as well.
Trae doesn’t pass the eye test for the Hall of Fame (one all-NBA third team selection and generally poor team performances) but those numbers make him a lock and his career will likely go past 13 years letting him finish with something like 10K assists and 24K points.
Thoughts?
As if Jrue wasn’t ever on losing teams, or he ever carried any team deep into the post season. The only season he was the #1 guy he ended up in the lottery.
He’s a great piece but he won two championships as a #3 and #4 option. Calling him a “winner” (even though he was on mostly losing teams for 10 years before reaching Milwaukee) to imply that Trae is a loser is stupid. One won rings with Giannis, Middleton, Tatum, Brown, Porzingis while the other has been surrounded by Capela, John Collins, Jalen Johnson, Bogdanovic or DeAndre Hunter.