NBA Top 100 Players, Rankings: How LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Edwards Stack Up Ahead of 2024-25 Season

Summer is almost over, and we're nearing the start of another NBA season. Training camp is right around the corner. Preseason tips close Oct. 4, and 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 over how everyone's ranked, we should remember that this list is projecting into the upcoming season. Our staff's ranking of how these players will perform over the next seven months.

While we all do our best to be prognosticators, we can't really predict how this season will end, so players are sure to rise and fall during the season. Maybe someone like Jalen Brunson will take it other Stepping into the top 10, or perhaps this is the year we see Father Time finally catch up to LeBron James.

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Ten CBS Sports analysts voted to compile this year's list: Brad Botkin, James Herbert, Jack Maloney, Sam Quinn, Jasmine Wimbish, Bill Ritter, John Gonzalez, Ashley Nicole Moss, Adam Finkelstein and Avery Johnson. A few other things to note: Unlike last year's rankings, each team has one representative this year. Also unlike last year's list, there are no rookies in our top 100. OK, enough recaps. Let's get to it.

Top 100 by NBA Teams

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

• Six players: Knicks, Pelicans, Thunder, Timberwolves
• Five players: Celtic
• Four players: Bucks, Cavaliers, Grizzlies, Kings, Magic, Mavericks, Nuggets, Pacers, Rockets
• Three players: 76ers, Hawks, Heat, Lakers, Suns, Raptors, Warriors
• Two players: Bulls, Clippers, Hornets, Spurs, Trail Blazers
• a player: Jazz, Nets, Pistons, Wizards