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Summer is nearing its end, and we’re nearing the start of another NBA season. Training camps are right around the corner. The preseason tips off on Oct. 4, and the start of the 2024-25 season is just five weeks away. To help hold you over until then we’ve put together our annual list of the league’s top 100 players.

Before there’s any real outrage about where everyone is ranked, we should note this list is projecting the upcoming season. This is our staff’s ranking of how we think these players will perform over the next seven-plus months.

While we all try our best to be prognosticators, we can’t truly predict how this season will play out, so players are sure to rise and fall during the course of the season. Maybe someone like Jalen Brunson will take another step into the top 10, or perhaps this is the year we see Father Time finally catch up to LeBron James.

Dereck Lively II was a key part of Dallas’ run to the NBA Finals last season.

Austin Reaves averaged 15.9 PPG and played in all 82 games for the Lakers last season.

Khris Middleton and Bradley Beal have both slipped in the Top 100 list this year.

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Draymond Green is entering his 13th season in the NBA.

Rockets forward Alperen Sengun is coming off a breakout season.

Jrue Holiday and Derrick White will try to help the Celtics win it all again in 2025.

Zion Williamson played a career-high 70 games during the 2023-24 season.

Jalen Brunson and Victor Wembanyama narrowly missed out on the top 10.

Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant are both still top-10 players entering the 2024-25 NBA season.

Nikola Jokic was a unanimous No. 1 selection by our panel of experts.

Top 100 by NBA team

(Note: Every NBA team has at least one player in our Top 100)

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