A countless number of types of players can find success in the NBA. After all, there are almost countless ways to impact a basketball game. 

Still, the league’s brightest stars are the players who can initiate the offense. If you can create offense for yourself and others at the NBA level, you’ve got a chance to earn an awful lot of money.

Role players are valuable, but all told, they can’t contribute much unless they’ve got a star beside them. 

On the other hand, some players play like stars but don’t make a star-level impact. They can create shots for themselves and/or others, but simply not as efficiently or regularly as the league’s best players.

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They’re talented: in fact, every player in the NBA is. They’re just not among the league’s elite. 

Caris LeVert probably falls into that category. Again – nobody is saying he’s lacking talent. It’s simply that, by now, he’s unlikely to attain star status. 

Could the Phoenix Suns trade for him anyway?