Jalen Green: From trade candidate to potential max player in a month

A cynical mind might say that it is just one good month and that it is not anything that has not been several times before, especially during the doldrums of March. But has it really?

So recently, he was said to have been a viable candidate to be dealt at the trade deadline, Jalen Green of the Houston Rockets is now playing some of the best basketball in the world. By HoopsHype’s own Global Rating metric, Green has been the best player in the NBA this past week, and second only to his namesake Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks over the last month.