I’ll start. Lowest IQ, Jordan Poole. He constantly takes horrible shots. Has bad clock awareness. Constantly over dribbling resulting in him slipping and falling on the floor.
Highest IQ, Lebron James. Anyone with basketball knowledge should already know this. He is a basketball savant. A prolific passer. See’s the whole floor and gets everyone involved. And he’s done this for over 20 years!
This sub’s obsession with “bball IQ” is really weird. There are multiple posts every day about it.
Lowest: Will Barton
Highest: Jokic
It’s probably Jokic for highest. LeBron is close, though. I don’t know who the lowest is, probably some dude on some bench somewhere.
It’s LeBron. You fans have been mindwarped by LeBron’s latter years. He literally knows full playbooks of teams. Jokic couldn’t give two fucks.
Highest IQ is Jokic and it’s not close. Kinda like Draymond, I used to think some of his assists are the results of his teammates getting a hard-to-catch pass and covert it. But the more I watch him play the more I understand that it’s easier to catch a hard pass when you anticipate. The way he reads the play before it happens and anticipates where the teammate goes, and he does it every single possession. I’ve never seen anyone like that.
lowest gotta be Goga Bitadze
Goga isn’t even the lowest IQ on the Magic, let alone the entire NBA
It’s hard to determine the player with the lowest IQ, because there are many players with relatively low IQ. But the one with the highest IQ seems like Jokic. Yes, even higher than LeBron.
Bol bol is one of the most fustrating players to watch play NBA basketball, zero court awareness, zero ability to pass the ball, awful shot selection, if the guy was even 6’6 he would be flipping burgers but he’s really tall and can kinda shoot and kinda dribble so he’s still making rosters.
There are so many high IQ players out there, it is very hard to pick just one. Bron is of course right at the top amongst those players.
Lowest IQ? Wiseman to me is one of them and Ivey isn’t great. I don’t feel Sharpe is especially high IQ yet. But there aren’t too many just dirt poor IQ guys in the league these days…you can’t survive in this era that way. The days of the athletic no-skill guy are basically over. You’re a liability on the floor, offensively in particular, if you’re unable to process within a team context quickly enough and make good reads and decisions.
Ja Morant has pretty low IQ, not sure if he’s the lowest. Especially in the playoffs, when he’s injured and comes back and still trying to jump over people again.