The NBA's most underrated star? Cleveland's Darius Garland again proving he's among game's elite

Darius Garland cocked his head to the side, took a second, considered.

A statement had been presented to him and discussed with several of his teammates earlier in the day, at morning shootaround ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ season opener one year ago — a binary proposition capping a conversation about the growth of Garland’s game:

True or false: DG’s the most underrated player in the NBA.

It’s a statement born of understandable but frustrating circumstances. Line up next to a perennial All-NBA candidate with a megawatt game like Donovan Mitchell, and people might not necessarily remember that Garland has an All-Star selection, too (and arguably got snubbed for a second the following season). Or realize that only 60 players ever have turned in both a 50-point and a 15-assist game … and that Garland’s one of them.




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