I know someone here was making the argument Jokic wasn't a top 10 player because he has too many nights where he scores single digits. He's coming off back to back games where he only scored 4 points and 7 points... but the first night he only played 22 minutes because it was the 2nd night of a back to back and the 3rd game in 4 days on the road in a blow out win.
Last night he scored 7 points of 3-9 shooting in 29 minutes... of course he also had 10 rebounds, 16 assists/4 TO, and a steal. Jokic doesn't need to score to greatly impact a game. Right now he's at 18.0 points, 10.0 rebounds, 7.7 assists, 1.1 block, 1.2 steals and 29.6 minutes per game on .519/.379/.848 shooting and his team is 8-1 with a +9.6 point margin.
In no particular order, my top 5: Curry, Durant, James, Leonard, Giannis
My 6-9 in no order: Harden, Davis, Jokic, Embiid.
10th: I'm pretty confident in my top 9, but in the 10th spot I could go with like 10 guys. I'll just go with one of my favorite non Celtics in Oladipo.
Maybe I'm missing someone. Embiid and Jokic have brought their games to another level. Going into the year, I thought Embiid was incredibly overrated but he's made me a believer. It also looks like Davis has improved his playmaking ability a bit although it's still early. He's at 4.8 apg, his career high was 2.3 last year. His stat line this year is insane so far, at 23.8 points, 12.2 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 3.5 blocks, 2 steals per game. No one has ever put up 20/10/4/3/2, and 20/10/4/3 has only been done 7 times in league history, and Kareem was 5 of them. The other 2 were David Robinson and Bob Lanier.
I could also envision a scenario where James isn't a top 5 player at season's end.
edit: A player averaging 3 blocks and 2 steals has only been done 4 times as well, once by David Robinson and 3 times by Hakeem.