Your top 20 current NBA Players

[SunsWinSunsWin]

Please list your top 20 NBA players as of right now.

1. Lebron
2. Curry
3. Westbrook
4. Hardin
5. Booker
6. Kawhi Leonard
7. KAT
8. Durant (injured)
9. Chris Paul
10. Unibrow
11. Paul George
12. Blake Griffin
13. Lanarcus Aldridge
14. Boogie
15. Draymond Green
16. Lowry
17. Butler
18. Wall
19. Thompaon
20. Lillard

[clyde21]

Wait...Booker #5?

u serial?

1. LeBron James, SF
2. Stephen Curry, PG
3. Kevin Durant, PF
4. Russell Westbrook, PG
5. Anthony Davis, PF
6. Kawhi Leonard, SF
7. DeMarcus Cousins, C
8. Chris Paul, PG
9. James Harden, PG
10. Jimmy Butler, SG
11. Giannis Antetokounmpo, SF
12. Paul George, SF
13. Nikola Jokic, C
14. Draymond Green, PF
15. John Wall, PG
16. Karl-Anthony Towns, C
17. Rudy Gobert, C
18. Blake Griffin, PF
19. Marc Gasol, C
20. Kyle Lowry, PG

[THKNKG]

Booker should not even be sniffing a top 20 list, let alone a top 5.

Just spitballing, I'd say:
Lebron
Durant
Curry
Kawhi
Harden
Westbrook
Davis
CP3
Giannis
Butler
Cousins
Gobert
Dray
Wall
Lowry
Thomas
PG13
Blake
Klay
KAT

Or something

[Hawk]

Not in order, numbers just to keep the count:

1. Lebron
2. Harden
3. Westbrook
4. Curry
5. Durant
6. Giannis
7. Butler
8. Kawhi
9. KAT
10. Gobert
11. Davis
12. Cousins
13. Wall
14. George
15. Thomas
16. Lowry
17. Paul
18. DeRozan
19. Irving
20. Green

[SunsWinSunsWin]

How many in your top 20 have scored 70 in one game, let alone at 20 years old.

[Blackfyre]

How I think I'll rank them after PS.

1. LeBron James
2. Russell Westbrook
3. Kevin Durant
4. James Harden
5. Stephen Curry
6. Kawhi Leonard
7. Chris Paul
8. Anthony Davis
9. Giannis Antetokounmpo
10. John Wall (I don't think advanced stats do him justice)
11. Jimmy Butler
12. Rudy Gobert
13. Demarcus Cousins (he is so low on my list only because I'm still not convinced that you can build a winner around him)
14. Paul George (currently playing at TOP 12 level but can't rank him higher because how mediocre he was relatively to his expectations for most of the year. I can definitely see him climbing this list after PS)
15. Draymond Green
16. Kyle Lowry (great RS when healthy but known to disappoint in PS)
17. Karl-Anthony Towns
18. Isaiah Thomas
19. Nikola Jokic (minutes restrict him from being higher. Very impressed with this dude)
20. Marc Gasol

HM: DeRozan, Irving, Blake, Whiteside etc. Lots of guys can replace few guys from the bottom.

I'm sure I missed somebody.

[Ron Swanson]

1. Lebron
2. Durant
3. Harden
4. Westbrook
5. Curry
6. Kawhi
7. Giannis
8. Anthony Davis
9. Chris Paul
10. Paul George
11. Jimmy Butler
12. Cousins
13. Wall
14. Gobert
15. Lillard
16. Lowry
17. Isaiah Thomas
18. Karl Anthony-Towns
19. DeAndre Jordan
20. Blake Griffin

It was tough past the top-12 for me. You could pretty much arrange players 13-25 in any order. A lot of deserving guys like Klay, Jokic, Draymond, Marc Gasol, Aldridge, Whiteside, DeRozan, and Hayward barely missed the cut.

[bondom34]

How many in your top 20 have scored 70 in one game, let alone at 20 years old.

In that case you need Brandon Jennings somewhere.

[clyde21]

How many in your top 20 have scored 70 in one game, let alone at 20 years old.

None have scored 70. So why not put him #1? Why are you stopping at 5?

[ShotCreator]

Ignoring durability:

1. LeBron James
2. Stephen Curry
3. Russell Westbrook
4. Chris Paul
5. Kawhi Leonard
6. Kevin Durant
7. James Harden
8. Jimmy Butler
9. Kyle Lowry
10. Giannis Ant
11. Rudy Gobert
12. Nikola Jokic
13. Anthony Davis
14. Draymond Green
15. Demarcus Cousins
16. John Wall
17. Gordon Hayward
18. Blake Griffin
19. Paul George
20. I. Thomas

[trex_8063]

idk my list exactly, but I guarantee a SG averaging 22 ppg on slightly poor efficiency for the team that finished dead-last in the conference, while nabbing only 3.2 rpg and maintaining only a 1.11 Ast:TO ratio, and not being anything special defensively....is not even remotely within sniffing distance of my top 20 (much less my top 5). Especially this season, where there is an abundance of high-end talent to choose from.

[RightToCensor]

1. Lebron James
2. Kevin Durant
3. Steph Curry
4. Kawhi Leonard
5. James Harden
6. Russell Westbrook
7. Anthony Davis
8. Giannis Antetokounmpo
9. Jimmy Butler
10. Chris Paul
11. John Wall
12. Draymond Green
13. Rudy Gobert
14. Paul George
15. Karl-Anthony Towns
16. Damien Lillard
17. Gordon Hayward
18. DeMarcus Cousins
19. DeMar Derozan
20. Isaiah Thomas

HM to Kyrie Irving, Klay Thompson, Bradley Beal, C.J. McCollum, Mike Conley, Marc Gasol, and Nikola Jokic.

[porcerel]

How many in your top 20 have scored 70 in one game, let alone at 20 years old.

How many players have the following:

> 14.6 PER
> 0.035 WS/48
> 0.4 OBPM
> -2.7 DBPM
> -2.3 BPM
> -0.2 VORP
> 0.531 TS%

...quite a bit more than 20. One game doesn't supplant the other 81. You didn't see Corey Brewer in the top 20 a few years back when he dropped 51. Booker has potential to get there, but he's far from reaching the top 20, let alone top 5.

[Winsome Gerbil]

The Top 5 here could be jumbled, hard to say:

1) Westbrook
2) LeBron
3) Curry
4) Harden
5) Durant
6) Kawhi
7) Giannis
8) Davis
9) Cousins
10) CP3
--small break-- (just sub elite guys who play both sides)
11) Butler
12) Wall
13) George
-- small break-- (elite guys on one side of the ball)
14) Griffin
15) Towns
16) Lillard
17) Draymond
18) Thomas
19) Gobert
20) Jokic?

Which also points out again that this is one of the strongest "star" eras we have seen. I had to push out traditional recent Top 20 and even sometimes Top 15 guys like Kyrie, Klay, Gasol, Lowry etc. just to make room for all the outstanding performers.

[freypies]

1. LeBron James
2. Steph Curry
3. Kevin Durant

4. Russell Westbrook
5. James Harden
6. Kawhi Leonard

7. Anthony Davis
8. Chris Paul
9. Draymond Green
10. Jimmy Butler
11. John Wall
12. Kyle Lowry
13. Giannis Antetokounmpo

14. Klay Thompson
15. Rudy Gobert
16. Isaiah Thomas
17. Paul George
18. Karl-Anthony Towns
19. DeMar DeRozan
20. Damian Lillard

[JustNBATingz]

LBJ
Curry
Westbrook
Leonard
Harden

Durant
Davis
Paul
Butler
Wall

Giannis Antetokounmpo
Green
Lowry
Gobert
IT

DeRozan
George
Irving
KAT
Lillard

[RxMidnight]

1. Lebron
2. Curry
3. Durant
4. Harden
5. Westbrook
6. Kawhi
7. CP3
8. Anthony Davis
9. Giannis
10. John Wall
11. Jimmy Butler
12. Draymond Green
13. Damian Lillard
14. Blake Griffin
15. Kyle Lowry
16. Demarcus Cousins
17. Isaiah Thomas
18. KAT
19. Rudy Gobert
20. Paul George

[weekend_warrior]

1. LeBron James
2. Steph Curry
3. Kevin Durant

4. Russell Westbrook
5. James Harden
6. Kawhi Leonard

7. Anthony Davis
8. Chris Paul
9. Draymond Green
10. Jimmy Butler
11. John Wall
12. Kyle Lowry
13. Giannis Antetokounmpo

14. Klay Thompson
15. Rudy Gobert
16. Isaiah Thomas
17. Paul George
18. Karl-Anthony Towns
19. DeMar DeRozan
20. Damian Lillard

I like it, but would change a couple of things. Griffin and Cousins are in my top 20, IT and KAT just miss out:

1. LeBron James
2. Steph Curry
3. Kevin Durant

4. Kawhi Leonard
5. James Harden
6. Russell Westbrook

7. Anthony Davis
8. Chris Paul
9. Draymond Green
10. Jimmy Butler
11. John Wall
12. Paul George
13. Giannis Antetokounmpo
14. Kyle Lowry

15. Rudy Gobert
16. Klay Thompson
17. Demarcus Cousins
18. Damian Lillard
19. DeMar DeRozan
20. Blake Griffin

HM (in some order): Isaiah Thomas, Marc Gasol, Gordon Hayward, Karl-Anthony Towns, Kyrie Irving, Nikola Jokic, Mike Conley, Kemba Walker

[Colbinii]

How many in your top 20 have scored 70 in one game, let alone at 20 years old.

If you are using logic more flawed than our current government, why isn't Booker #1?

Something like this:

1. LeBron James

2. Kawhi Leonard
3. Stephen Curry
4. Kevin Durant
5. Chris Paul

6. Russell Westbrook
7. James Harden

8. Jimmy Butler
9. Anthony Davis
10. John Wall
11. Kyle Lowry
12. Draymond Green
13. DeMarcus Cousins
14. Kyle Lowry

15. Giannis Antetokounmpo
16. Rudy Gobert
17. Blake Griffin

18. Mike Conley
19. Gordon Hayward
20. Damian Lillard

HM: Paul George, DeMar DeRozan, Nikola Jokic, KAT, Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving, Marc Gasol

[RightToCensor]

I'm surprised so many people still see Griffin as a top 20 player over some All-Stars and potentially All-NBA Third-Team players.

How much does team record factor into rankings, because KAT is averaging 25 and 12 on 61TS% with a 120 ORtg on a team that's trying to win but can't help blowing leads in the second half. He has two less wins than a team headed by two top 20 players in Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins.