NBA Top 100 Players (2025)
The top 100 NBA players, ranked.
A ranking of the top 100 NBA players following the 2024-25 season. These are not “projections” for where each player will be at the end of the upcoming season, but simply an evaluation of each player—right now—based on their current resume and what we’ve seen from them to this point of their career. All factors are taken into account—individual accolades, stats, advanced metrics, team success, reliability, and overall perceived impact. Keep reading for a deep-dive into the top 50, as well as a brief overview of players 51-100. Incoming rookies are excluded for this exercise.
Interested in seeing how everyone stacked up last year? Check out previous year’s rankings:
2024 2023
A true offensive magician, Luka is the Lakers’ new lottery ticket to annual contention for the next decade.
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He is now a three-time MVP—yes, not one, not two, but three. A feat that only nine players in NBA history have achieved. Jokic just continues to be a cheat code offensively for the Nuggets—putting up video game numbers on a nightly basis on way to averaging an absurd 26.1 points, 12.2 rebounds, and 8.7 assists on .588/.364/.828 shooting splits over the past four years combined. In that four-year span, he also has led the entire NBA in PER, win shares, box plus minus, and VORP in each of those individual four seasons. He is truly an advanced stats god.
Offensively, the Joker has no weakness. He is probably the best passer in the game, has genius-level basketball IQ, is automatic as a finisher anywhere remotely near the paint, is an elite rebounder on both ends, and is a true “pick your poison” player. Play him straight up? He’ll have no problem scoring at-will every time down the court. Send a double his way? He’s finding the open man every time.
If you really wanted to poke holes in his game, his jump shooting hasn’t been as consistent as of late and his defensive reliability was questionable at best in the postseason last year. But man, we are knit-picking now. He’s still—at worst—a league average three-point shooter at just about 7 feet tall and anchored a championship-level defense just a year ago.
