Will Pascal Siakam or Jimmy Butler make an All-NBA team?

Pascal Siakam and Jimmy Butler have both had exceptional seasons and it's quite possible only one of them will make an All-NBA team. Imman and Giancarlo Navas analyze who has the better case. Follow Yahoo Sports Canada for all your Raptors coverage.

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IMMAN ADAN: First, I want to focus on that All-NBA Team. Because that's where Raptor fans and Heat fans have been going at it. And I'd love to know your perspective on it.

GIANCARLO NAVAS: So I think that Pascal absolutely deserves mention and consideration. I think it's tough because--

IMMAN ADAN: The one seed.

GIANCARLO NAVAS: --Jimmy's the best player on the one seed. And the numbers are pretty similar. They're not that different, right?

Pascal's a little bit ahead in points and rebounds. But Jimmy's, like, a better playmaker. And Jimmy's advanced stats are just better. And I mean, Jimmy's won more.

So Jimmy's at 21 points, 21.4. Pascal's at 22.5. Jimmy's at 5.6 rebounds-- no, I'm sorry, 5.9 rebounds, 5.6 assists. Pascal's at 8.5 and 5.2.

The true shooting percentages are pretty similar. Jimmy takes a lot more free throws, so that kind of outweighs his non-3-point shooting. Jimmy leads him in EPM and RAPTOR and a lot of-- and I think LEBRON as well. Shout out to BBall Index folks.

So the finishing stuff is pretty-- I mean, Pascal's 64% at the rim. That's really not good. Jimmy's 63% at the rim, so also not very good. From mid-range, 40% for Jimmy, 44% for Pascal-- it's kind of similar, right?

So at that point, I think when two candidates are that close-- and I think defensively, I think it's not been Jimmy's best offensive year. But I still think that he's clearly the second best defensive player on one of the top five defenses in the league. Pascal, obviously not just the pedigree, but just the stuff he's asked to do by the Raptors is a lot-- the switching, the taking care of guards, the helping the rotations, all that stuff.

And when you're just so-- when you have two candidates that are so close, I think the tiebreaker for me is going to be the winning. And I think Jimmy also has a little bit of cachet, not that that's fair. But I don't think Jimmy's going to get it. And I don't think Pascal's going to get it either. Because I've just heard too many people not put either of them in.

But I think Jimmy probably deserves it. And Pascal will be my first cut.

IMMAN ADAN: OK, you know what? to I'll take some-- Raptors fans are going to hate me for this. Here's the thing-- I agree with you. I think winning matters.

I think it wouldn't make sense to have the one seed not have anybody on an All-NBA team. But I will say to those numbers, and I was just watching Pascal operate today-- and yes, the Raptors hit a lot of 3's. It's just like, he operates in no space. I'm like, how he even gets to-- how he even finishes when there's just-- he operates out of this much room no matter what he does inside.

Versus Jimmy-- Bam isn't fair. It's one of the spaciest offenses.

GIANCARLO NAVAS: I would disagree with that a little bit because PJ-- yeah, because what's kind of happened is since about January, PJ's shooting has not been great. And teams are just ignoring him. And it's similar to what they had with Iguodala and Ariza, where he doesn't-- Miami has movement shooters and PJ.

PJ is not Duncan or Tyler or Max, where they're moving and they're relocating, they're screening, they're slipping, they're always in motion. PJ's-- they've incorporated him kind of hammer screening. But there's only so much you can do with a guy like that.

He'll screen and slip, and he'll hit a floater or whatever. But at the end of the day, he's just going to be parked on a corner for long stretches of the game. And if guys are helping off of him, and if they're already playing Jimmy and Bam, and those three play a lot of minutes together--

IMMAN ADAN: Yeah.

GIANCARLO NAVAS: --there's three-- there's two non-shooters and one that you're not scared of. And Kyle hasn't shot super well all season. And Duncan has been up and down.

So their offenses has-- they've walked a very fine line. Dedmon shoots, but not really. Markieff kind of not a good shooter. So they have a lot of lineups where they have a little bit of cramped spacing.

They do lead the league in 3-point shooting, which I think is very funny. But those numbers are a little deceiving, I will say. He does play in more space than Pascal, I will say that.

And that was kind of the reason for Strus starting over Duncan recently, was Jimmy-- and Wes Goldberg of "Locked On," he wrote about this recently. PJ's minutes with Jimmy have been cut by 10 since the change in the starting lineup. And that was part of the blowup between he and Spo, apparently-- not reporting anything, but just following tea leaves, right, just kind of the rotational stuff and all that.

IMMAN ADAN: I did hear Bam kind of talk about that on the latest "Lowe Post," kind of about how they were losing, which I guess points to what you were saying. And the other thing that I'm going to say, the other thing that I'm going to say besides the more space that he has to operate with-- and yes, we talked about some of those finishing numbers, which aren't great for either of them. But Pascal gets hacked on probably every single one, and does not get a single free throw.

GIANCARLO NAVAS: Not a grifter.

IMMAN ADAN: Not only is he not a grifter, he could legitimately get hacked and still not go to the line, versus Jimmy Butler, who gets a fairly friendly whistle. I'm just bringing you what Raptor fans would kill me for not saying. I am of the mind that if you are on the one seed, and you don't have any representation there, I think that's fairly ludicrous.

But I do think that Pascal Siakam also not having any representation for any award-- like, he's not an All-Star. He's not an All-NBA player. But this season that he's had needs to be recognized. I think it being ignored would be a gross oversight, considering how just absolutely brilliant and phenomenal he's been on both sides of the ball for the Toronto Raptors, who are the five seed in their own right. They're a winning team there as well.

Maybe we just kick LeBron James off the ballot?

GIANCARLO NAVAS: Honestly, I don't even know what we're doing with LeBron at this point on these ballots. I don't get it. I don't understand why we got to do it.

We wouldn't think of Bradley Beal this way. I mean, Bradley Beal's like, eh, do we put him third team? I don't know, you know what I mean? Like, there's been tons of dudes--

IMMAN ADAN: It's like, if you don't have another guard and you're just like, oh, we got to get somebody, [LAUGHS] let's throw him on there.

GIANCARLO NAVAS: I don't really-- I don't really see-- I mean, I guess he averages that many points, and his name is LeBron. But if you-- I don't know, if De'Aaron Fox did that, and they were the 11th seed, would we care?

IMMAN ADAN: Don't think so. OK, so we're in agreement. We're getting LeBron James off the ballot.

GIANCARLO NAVAS: Let's kick him out, yeah. Let's kick Devin off, too.

IMMAN ADAN: [LAUGHS]

GIANCARLO NAVAS: I'm kidding.