Where does Boston’s Jayson Tatum rank in the league’s best one-on-one players?

Just ahead of the Indiana Pacers’ Tyrese Halliburton and just behind the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

Who are the NBA’s top one-on-one players so far this season? Given that the Boston Celtics are an absolute unit to start their 2023-24 campaign, it probably should not surprise to see a Celtics star among them in the estimation of Bleacher Report’s Dan Favale.

Using a statistical approach to rank them based on both volume and efficiency, the B/R NBA analyst devised a formula that considers each player’s isolation performance by subtracting the league average points per possession from their individual points per possession and multiplying the difference by the total number of isolation plays that player has used this season (check out the full breakdown of the methodology here).

The player who made the cut? Jayson Tatum — coming in third overall, just ahead of the Indiana Pacers’ Tyrese Halliburton and just behind the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.