The Deep 3 Podcast - We Picked Every Level Of NBA Stars | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

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We are going to make Pokemon evolutions of NBA players. I'm going to show you a chart with different levels of NBA players and I want you guys to fill it out. Who are the different versions? We're going to pick every level of NBA stars. First off, level four is Michael Jordan

who's one, two, and three. All right, so three would be Kobe. Naturally. Okay. Two would be Shea. Two Shay. There might be two level threes right there. Are we going worse than Kobe?

Go to Devin Booker? That's a delineation. Okay. So we can go, Jordan. Kobe, Dibook. Who's level one? Demar. Okay.

Demar or Rosen? Demar, Cam Thomas. Cam Thomas. Let's go Cam Thomas. We can make level ones like... Yeah. Yeah. Cam Thomas turns on Devin Booker, turns into Kobe, turns into Michael Jordan.

Yeah. Okay. That is a... That tracks. We don't want to put Anthony Edwards in there instead of Devin Booker? No. No, I think Dibook is much more along those lines. Yeah, I think so, too.

Okay. I mean, you could, though. I mean, wouldn't be crazy. Next up. Lamello ball level two. one has to be like Rayfer Austin like just

some like and one mixtape guy so we can go skip to my loo one we can go lamella ball two you go off the river one I think I was going to say Jamal Crawford one I think you should go Jamal Crawford one I was thinking we can put

Jamal three come on man no we can go Bones Island one I don't know, both I don't kind of been who been. Dude, you're so disrespectful. Rob Dillingham one.

There we go. Rob Dillingham one, lamello, too. Who's a better version of Lamello? No, three. Tyreys Halliburton? Yeah. Tyrese and number three. But I do you want to keep someone that's like the scoring element?

Yeah. Okay, the scoring element would keep that. Then we need a bucket. And somebody that's still like kind of. A flashy bucket. Yeah, still kind of creative. Say, Trey Young. Stop that.

No. Now. A flash is a bucket. Got to make sure it's somebody that has some flash to them. Otherwise, we're not in the same world. Yeah. some of it's also just kind of like unnecessarily flashy they'd just be doing stuff

Pete Marevich times OG the last time you do you watch the P. Marevich highlight I actually saw one of turn it out too long ago really yeah maybe like early this year yeah I mean that's true

in the grand scheme of watching P. Marevish highlights it's not very long ago yeah I don't exactly do that on the regular well yeah like January or something probably okay P Mavarish level three also OG flash we are 10 days away from the end of the year you're right

It's been a whole year since he's seen with the P-bearer and his highlights he said yeah I just saw it the end of the day I also

I also was a year ago that's so long ago I also don't know it's January I just been early this year oh my God

Pete Mair's level three Luca4 sure look of four you can say Steve Nash F4 not flashy enough

Luke we need a jackass we need a jackass Luke is probably probably the most talented jackass of all time We need a jackass. We go Luca or we go Curry? We'll go Luca four.

Okay. So we got Rob Dillingham, Lamello Ball, Pete Marevich, Luca Donchich. Okay. That tracks. Yeah. Fares, solid. Level four, we got Yokic. How do we build up to Yokic?

Three, Shangoon. Okay. Okay, three, Sangu. Two, subonis. Maybe three we go, like, a Hall of Famer that's not quite all-time great like he is. Like, is Bill Walton three? I got to get more napkins. It's naughty ass

So I'm thinking about like the passing Biggs It's like It's Yokic Walton Shangoon Arvita Sabonis

people would say Oh let's go Subonis 3 OG Sabonis 3 Arvitas 3 Shengun 2 Derek Queen 1 Derek Queen 1

Shout out Derek Queen Yeah I like that The newest baby Yokitch Yeah Let's go to OG Sabonis It's not this new one. Yeah.

Not the sequel. It doesn't live out to the hype. Not the too fast, too furious of some bonuses. Too bad. The money grab. That makes sense. That was the easiest one.

Bronny James at one. How do we evolve Ronnie? Okay. Number two, Deuce McBride. Okay, I was thinking of DeAnthee Ansela Meldon. We can go Deuce McBride.

Same type of archetype. Okay. Deuce McBride. Level three. Avery Bradley. Drew Holley. No, that, well, that, okay, my question was, is Drew Holiday three or four? I think Drew should be four.

I was thinking Drew Holiday three, Gary Payton, four. If we're making level four, like, all-time grades. It's like, you know what? Bronny because Milton becomes Drew because Gary Payton. Let's not put our limitations on Bronny. Okay. Yeah, let's put Gary Payton at four. Well, this isn't exactly what he's going to become.

I guess, man. It's not an archetype. Sealing is whatever you wanted to be, Bronny. Let's put Gary Payton at four. All right. You can set the bar. It's not about Frotty. What's time to play?

I think that makes sense. Yeah. Ew. Let's not put it on a little bit of these. Next up. Cooper flag at level two. All right. So four,

Tatum, clearly. Yeah, three or four. Because who's a better version of... Better version of Tatum? So, well, do you go, like, Scotty Pippin three, Tatum four? They're so close, I think they're same level. So I think we pick one of Tatum or Pippin.

I think I'm fine with Tatum 4. Then who's three? Who's between Cooper Flag and Tatum? I think Tatum might be level three, but I don't know. Who plays like Tatum in among the awesome grades? It's just hard because Tateau. Larry Granger. Loki.

Cooper Flagg becomes Tadon becomes Bird. Tatum, a bird is such a, it's different. He is, but also he's not like that. I mean, he's a better passer, like better shooter, but like also it's not that different. Like, playmaking wings. Yeah, but they're mad athletic. Can I just put Bron at four

Looking at Bird Bird was athletic Burr could move when he was young Bird wasn't a slouch He's not like Yokechard wasn't a transition Even like these guys though I think he was but it's different Like it was like magic like passing and stuff

But It's more like three man weave Yeah yeah I guess so A type of fast breaks I think we go Tatum Magic Tatum Bird

Tatum Bird Tatum bird No Tatum Brian Nah not Brian Oh we could go Braun Tatum's like a plane making wing down People were saying Cooper Flag has a little

little old man Brian? Okay, then who's level one? You said Danny Granger. I love he,

Danny Granger, Cooper Flagg, Tatam, Braun. Danny Granger was nice. We can do that. I know, I think level one should be someone

a little more entry level than Danny Granger. Yeah, he was, all-star free or something. So who's a power, who's a forward

bench player that can ball handle and pass a little bit? Josh Hart. Somebody bigger. Isaac Bongha, becomes Cooper flag becomes Jason Taylor That's a hell of a leap

People's day That's a hell of a leap Yeah You're gonna ruin people's day With that one but Isaac Bongo it is All right Go ahead

The Isaac Bonger to LeBron Transformation is not as Oh my God People need understand There's a pipeline We see it Next up Steph Curry level four

How did we get to Curry Three See it sucks Because he's also all time But like Three is Steve Nash Okay, I was thinking Dame, but Steve Natch can make sense But

But is Dame like I think is Dane closer to Curry Because like neither one of them are like All Time great passers I think so Yeah We could go Dame 3 But Dame is also like

Obviously Steph is like You know up there Yeah And I think it was sizable difference To know Dame level all star And a Curry Top 10 all time Yeah

Do we go At Do our Oof Number two I mean Dane was out here scored Let's do that 55 in the playoffs He but I mean That's a level three

That's a level three I mean Dames's not Tatim Who do you want to do at one? Those first few games, Jared McCain last year? Oh, no. Seth Curry becomes Abdul, becomes David Lillard, becomes Steph Curry. Number one, we could also say Cam Spencer.

He's looking different over there in Memphis. We're not putting Cam Spencer on. He looks, bro. You are sleeping on Kansas. The Curry to Curry Pipeline makes too much sense in my head. Ah, you got to sleep. We could get Kansas, I guess. Or we could put Seth.

That's what I said, Seth Curry. All right, sure. Seth, Addoer, Roof, Damon Lur and Curry. That's right. Next up. Cam Reddish. How does he evolve to level one? This is the easiest right here.

Okay, tell me. Yeah. So level one, Cam, Cam Redis. Level two, some moves a little bit better. Three and D, probably. Three and D. Some will do a little bit of everything. A McHale, no, no, I think, not McHell.

A little less. A little more bucket brain? Yeah, a little more of a driver. Less wiggle. Less wiggle, more of a driver. Is Andrew Wiggins somewhere on this? Yes, Andrew Wiggins is level two. He's very useful.

He's level two. Cameras could have easily been someone like Wiggins. He's level two. Level three, Paul George. Yeah. And then level four has to be. Kauai Leonard. Okay.

Yeah, level four has to be all time. Yeah. Okay, Kauai. So Scottie Pippin, I don't know. Could have put T-Mex somewhere in there too. If the NBA won't do it, we will. We'll put in Kaui Leonard on suspension. We'll go, Scottie Pippin at 4.

We'll go Camper. Andrew Wiggins, Paul George Scottie Pippin Temporary nasty man watch Oh my God Okay so Cam Reddish Becomes Andrew Wiggins Because Paul George

Becomes Scottie Pippin Yeah Fair enough Next up Yann is at level three All right let's think of Different running dunk man Kevin Knox level one

Kevin Knox Kevin Knox level one Yeah Becomes That one summer league wasn't So you gotta be Kevin Knox Summer Lee Kevin Knox

Mississippi level one Yeah No because Kevin Knox was trying to shoot like that for real for because he's like donkey stuff stop working yeah but summer league he was moving like that running in transition he was nasty he was crazy summer league kevin knox who's level two

who's a good version of that like a jonathan isaac maybe but pre-injury jonathan isaac we couldn't never ball handle like that oh Kevin Knox becomes jalen johnson becomes yonis becomes wiltz jailin johnson

we got to pick somebody a little bit better than kevin No, it's level one. What do you mean? Kevin Knox is so bad. He was awful. Fine, fine. Coastus,

Santinacompo becomes Taylor Johnson, becomes Janus, becomes Wilts. There we go. You think Coltis has a better career than Kevin Knox? So much better than Kevin Knox. Yeah, come on now.

Kevin Knox is so bad. He's traumatized. He's so bad. This is PTSD. Shack at level four. Who are the baby shacks? Baby Shacks, Baby Shacks. Okay, so who's the worst Baby Shack?

Entry level. Okay, he's three big. I think. So, do you guys something that their whole thing is, are bigger than you? Boban becomes Zach Edie, becomes, who's level three? Big Dunk Man. Oh, Boban becomes Zach Edy, becomes Dwight Howard, becomes Shack. Shack going to be mad.

Those are his comparisons? He's like, yeah, Shack, want to put Dwight Howard at one. True. Yeah. They fix the beef now. They fix the beef. No, they haven't.

They do a showdown again. It's, Shaq, he's going to be mad for the rest of his life. So Dwight one. Do you want to start with Darwin? Okay, let's do it. Let's do Shaq's list.

Yeah, from Shaq's perspective. Okay, Shaq's perspective. Dwight's one. Yokitch is three because he's better than Yokich's head. Yes. Who's two? Like big country Reeves or something.

Oh, let's give me some. Oh, no. Bobo. He loves Bobo. is Shaq's mind is Dwight, Bobo, Yolk it, Shaq. He was comparing Bobo to Wembe. He was like, yeah, that guy could do the same thing. Yeah, he was doing that after Wembe was already being like awesome level.

Freak. Next up. Ron Art Test at level two. Level one, Lou Dort. Or do we get worse? Level one, Dylan Brooks. I thought we had to go mental with this one. Yes.

But Dylan Brooks is. It's like, I guess we can go Dillenbrook's one. Let's track who has like the eye of the tiger all four levels. Who's insane? Maybe I say it's Stewart level one? No. No, no, no, no. Nah, he's level two.

He's on our test level? Yeah. Okay, fine. He's real. So I would, I, he was chasing Lebronaro with a bloodied face, man. He was a madman. That's true. Yeah, we can go Dillam Brooks one.

Lance Stevenson was just funny. He's just funny. Who else is a gooon for three and four? You go Bill Lambert, Kevin Garnett. Kevin Garnett is four Kevin Grimes for does Gary Payton get in here at all Is he a higher level of Gune to run our test When our test wasn't the malice

I don't I don't think so Honestly this is super hard Having run our test at two The level of Goon is already Yeah, we're already in like top five So we're really just making the top five Does Dramon deserve a spot here? No

Dremont I think Dremont is level one He does He choked out Rudy Gaubert For no reason Do you forget about that he choked Rudy Gaubert for no reason unprovoked Rudy wasn't doing nothing

you saw school here's my chance so we can go okay we'll go Dylan Brooks because he has he actually hasn't even done anything and there's been moments where the goon in him has been completely performative

okay Dylan Brooks our test Garnett where else we're going Rodman okay Rodman 3 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Robin's an ultimate good.

Garnett, Goon, Goon level three, Robin Goon level four. Okay. I like that. Derek Rose level three. How do we track these athletic point guards? Russell Westbrook has to be on here. Is he four?

He might be four. I think he's four. I think Russell Westbrook in terms of like that, like athletic poor guard. That's kind of top of the game. Yeah. So, or no, who is four, LeBron James. Can you play a point card?

I mean, look, yeah. No, no. So we go Westbrook for, Penny Hardaway one or two? I was like John Wall, too. Oh, we're going on that. I was going to say Scoot Henderson, man. That's number one, something like that.

Yeah. Well, he's not even like that type of slasher. I think level one should be someone the only slashes, but they're not that good because all they can do is slash. Oh. No, not. Because they also need to be able to dunk.

I'm okay with John Wall being two. Okay, John Wall 2, Russell Westbrook. Who's the entry-level dunking point guard? Dennis Smith, Jr. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was. Dennis Smith, becomes John Wall, becomes Derek Rose becomes Russell Westbrook.

He was one of them once, yeah. Yep, yep, there we go. I was thinking I said I call here at first. He's like a driver, but he doesn't dunk like that. He's a big layup guy. Yeah, he's not explosive. He is, but like groundbound. He's quick, but not jumpy.

Okay. Luke at level three. James Hardin would be level four or Brown would be four. Oh, bitch, level two? Yeah, James Hardin would be level two. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, too, too. He said, bitch, level two. One guy is an MVP.

I'm just posing stuff. That is true. He does have MVP. Fuck out my face. I think James Hardin probably level three, but we can't include him. Same level, okay.

But Brown would be four. Do you think he's more Braun or do you think he's more bird? I think he's more bird probably. Byr? Braun is like a fles. Is it a bird? Or he's Yolkj for it's the better version? Yeah,

because he would just be taller. And he's... Oh yeah, let's just do it taller and taller. So Yokich is four, Luca three, Composo 1, Lamello 2. So we get a little bit bigger every time.

Lamello 2. Or no, Lameo's too tall. Who's a 6-5 version of this? They don't make 6-5 versions of this? It doesn't work.

Yeah. Well, fuck, let's just go height. Composso, Hardin, Luca, Yokic. All right, fuck it.

Or, like, Dilo, Hardin. Not Camposos. Compososos is there, brad. Camposososos is there, Luca, Yonich.

Like, bro, Pablo Prizioni, who was running offense. He was out here. Oh, my God. Josh Giddy, level two.

Come on now. Actually, I think he's like the same height as Luca. Guy's big. Yeah, he's like 6.7.