Are Boston Celtics stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown not among the NBA’s best duos?

In one recent assessment, the Jay Team merely merited an ‘honorable mention’.

Are the Boston Celtics‘ All-NBA duo of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum among the best star pairings in the league? Not if you ask Bleacher Report’s Greg Swartz, it seems. The B/R analyst has the twosome in his “honorable mention” category in a recent league-wide survey of the NBA’s best duos with Joel Embiid and James Harden of the Philadelphia 76ers, and Kawhi Leonard and Paul George of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Ahead of Tatum and Brown? In reverse order, Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving of the Dallas Mavericks, LeBron James and Anthony Davis of the Los Angeles Lakers, Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray of the Denver Nuggets, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jrue Holiday from the Milwaukee Bucks, and Kevin Durant and Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns.

And while Swartz says he “heavily” uses “success with both players on the court last season,” the order noted suggests the “estimated plus-minus and estimated wins data” aspect of his rubric is weighted much more heavily given only the Nuggets duo outperformed Boston’s last season.