The first week of the 2021-22 NBA season is officially wrapped up, so it’s time to overreact to the early results. Some of the league's biggest stars have put up spectacular first weeks; others have been disappointing.

Every team has played two or three games, and these are the performances from the biggest names who have stood out, for both good reasons and bad.

Worst: Devin Booker

Stats: 18.3 PPG, 4.3 RPG, 4.0 APG, 39.6% FG, 33.3% 3P

Maybe we can chalk up Booker's quiet start to the season to his short offseason. He went straight from playing in the Finals with the Suns to playing for Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics. In Phoenix's season-opening loss to the Denver Nuggets, he scored just 12 points on 3-of-15 shooting and had three turnovers.

Booker's individual performances were better in the Suns' next two games—22 points in Friday's win over the Lakers and 21 in Saturday's blowout loss to Portland—but he had four turnovers against the Lakers. He also hasn't gotten to the foul line at nearly the rate he has in years past: four free-throw attempts in the season opener and two in each of the next two games.

Booker will be fine, and so will the Suns. Slow starts happen, and he has a built-in excuse with the heavy summer workload. But he hasn't had the impact in the first week of the season that the Suns have come to expect after his stellar play in their Finals run.

Best: Kevin Durant

Stats: 33.0 PPG, 10.3 RPG, 6.3 APG, 56.5% FG

The headline of the Nets' first week will be that they're 1-2 without Kyrie Irving and could easily be 0-3 if not for a late push in Friday's come-from-behind win in Philadelphia.

But what should not get lost in the disappointing results is that Durant has picked up where he left off in last year's playoffs: looking like arguably the best player in the league. His 38 points in Sunday's loss to Charlotte is the third-most any Nets player has had in a home opener behind Irving and Stephon Marbury.

Everything Durant is great at has been on display: the scoring at all three levels, the foul-drawing ability, the rebounding, the playmaking. He's as unguardable as he's ever been and one of the league's must-watch players in these early Brooklyn losses. He's keeping the Nets in the title discussion even with one of their three stars out indefinitely.

Best: Nikola Jokic

Stats: 29.5 PPG, 14.5 RPG, 4.5 APG, 2.5 SPG, 65.9% FG, 37.5% 3P

In his second game of the year, the reigning MVP gave us the highlight of the nascent 2021-22 season: an absolutely incredible cross-court pass through three Spurs defenders to find Michael Porter Jr. open in the corner. Even by the standards of the center who throws some of the most eye-popping passes in the modern game, this one was on a different level.

That pass was part of a spectacular overall performance from Jokic in a win over San Antonio in the Nuggets' home opener: 32 points, 16 rebounds, seven assists, three steals and a block with 14-of-19 shooting from the field and a perfect 2-of-2 from three-point range.

He was nearly as good in Denver's season-opening win in Phoenix with 27 points and 13 rebounds, shooting 13-of-22. If this is how Jokic follows up his MVP campaign, he'll be firmly in the mix to win the award for the second year in a row. 

Worst: Trae Young

Stats: 21.5 PPG, 1.5 RPG, 10.5 APG, 36.8% FG, 27.3% 3P

Young's play has been a mixed bag. In the Hawks' season-opening win over the Mavericks, he made up for a cold shooting night (6-of-16) by playing distributor, racking up 14 assists as his teammates led a balanced scoring effort. 

He had to carry more of the offensive load in Saturday's road loss in Cleveland, scoring 24 points but needing 22 shot attempts.

One thing Young hasn't had trouble doing is getting to the line, which was in question given the league's new emphasis on cutting down the foul-hunting he's become a poster child for. He got to the foul line five times in the opener and seven times in the Cavs game and is a perfect 12-of-12. The shooting will come around as the season progresses.

Best: Paul George

Stats: 35.0 PPG, 10.5 RPG, 5.0 APG, 2.0 SPG, 56.3% FG, 43.5% 3P

Kawhi Leonard may miss the entire season, meaning George is entrenched as the first option for this year's Clippers. It's a role he's played many times before, in both Indiana and Oklahoma City, so it's no surprise he's looked comfortable.

While the Clippers are 0-2 with losses to the Warriors and Grizzlies, George has had everything working at both ends of the floor. He had 29 points in the season opener and 41 against Memphis. He's shooting the lights out from three-point range on 11.5 attempts per game. His defense is as solid as ever.

The Clippers without Leonard aren't a title contender, but they'll be one of the tougher teams to face in the Western Conference, and George's all-around excellence is the biggest reason why.

Worst: Jayson Tatum

Stats: 23.0 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 3.3 APG, 39.7% FG, 26.7% 3P

Tatum's overall numbers look a lot better after his 31-point, nine-rebound effort in Sunday's win over the Rockets, the Celtics' first victory of the season. But his first two games couldn't have gone much worse. In Boston's season-opening double-overtime loss to the Knicks, he shot 2-of-15 from three-point range and 7-of-30 overall. He followed that up with five turnovers in 30 minutes in a blowout loss to the Raptors.

Hopefully, the performance against Houston is a sign of things to come. But it came against a tanking Rockets team, so take it with a grain of salt given that he struggled against good teams. Tatum should return to form, and the Celtics will start winning as they get healthier, but the first week of the season was one to forget.

Best: LeBron James

Stats: 26.0 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 5.3 APG, 46.6% FG, 48.2% 3P

LeBron is still LeBron. That much has been clear through three games. The Lakers lost their first two games of the season and could have started 0-3 if Ja Morant hadn't missed a potentially game-tying free throw Sunday night. But as long as James and Anthony Davis are healthy, they'll be dangerous.

Most encouraging so far has been James' outside shooting. He's 14-of-29 on the year from beyond the arc and seems to be picking his spots nicely from out there. Given some of the spacing concerns with this Lakers roster (more on that later), he needs to be the version of himself that was knocking down threes in Miami a decade ago. In the first three games, he's risen to that challenge.

Worst: Russell Westbrook

Stats: 12.0 PPG, 7.6 RPG, 8.6 APG, 5.6 TOV, 34.8% FG, 9.0% 3P

All summer, there have been questions about how Westbrook will fit in with the Lakers, whether he'll be able to adjust to being a third option and whether his game is conducive to winning in 2021. Through the first week, all of those concerns have been validated.

Westbrook has looked out of sorts in the Lakers' first three games of the season, turning the ball over a lot (including nine turnovers in the team's first win of the season against Memphis) and shooting inefficiently. It just doesn't look like a good fit, at least not yet.

That could change, of course. In each of the last two seasons, in Houston and Washington, Westbrook has started the year slow and then put up better numbers in the second half of the season. But neither of those situations involved him not being a focal point. He needs the ball in his hands, and it's hard to justify making him the primary ball-handler when he has LeBron James on his team. That's something they'll have to figure out over time, but the early returns are not good.

Best: Stephen Curry

Stats: 31.0 PPG, 9.0 RPG, 7.0 APG, 2.3 SPG, 43.5% FG, 38.9% 3P

Last year, Curry's MVP-level play kept the Warriors afloat and in the play-in mix despite a rash of injuries. The first week of the new season has been much of the same.

Curry had a triple-double in Golden State's season-opening win over the Lakers and then exploded for 45 points against the Clippers while drilling eight three-pointers. On Sunday against the Kings, he played another solid all-around game, finishing with 27 points, seven rebounds, 10 assists and three steals.

The Warriors end the first week of the season unbeaten, and they've done it playing teams that hope to make the postseason. Their long-term outlook won't be known until Klay Thompson returns, but Curry has looked like himself, which will give them a chance against anybody.

Worst: James Harden

Stats: 18.3 PPG, 7.3 RPG, 8.0 APG, 38.8% FG, 39.1% 3P

While Durant has been outstanding without Irving, their third co-star has struggled to get going. Harden's shooting efficiency, which is usually in the mid-40s (pretty good for the number of attempts he puts up), has been subpar, and he hasn't gotten into an offensive rhythm.

More concerningly, Harden's free-throw attempts—a defining characteristic of his game, and one that makes him nearly impossible to stop from scoring—are way down. He got to the line four times in each of the Nets' first two games and just once in Sunday's loss to Charlotte. After that game, Nets coach Steve Nash said Harden has become the “poster boy” for the league's new crackdown on foul-drawing techniques.

The great players figure out ways to adapt to rule changes, and there's no doubt Harden will. But it will take a little time.