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Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 6:06 am
by Icarus_prime
Fully healthy:
1) Jokic
2) SGA
3) Giannis
4) Curry
5) Luka
6) Tatum
7) Wemby
8) LeBron
9) AD
10) Edwards
Honourable mentions: Kawhi, Brunson, Haliburton, Mitchell
Health-included:
1) Jokic
2) SGA
3) Giannis
4) Luka
5) Edwards
6) Brunson
7) Mitchell
8) Haliburton
9) Curry
10) Mobley
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 6:18 am
by bonita_the_frog
The highest IQ?
Durant, you can plug him in any system and he scores with perfect efficiency.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 6:28 am
by Mavrelous
LeBron and AD are not top 10 players.
Curry was leading a lottery team for 2 years while healthy until he got Butler and he's the 4th best player in the league?
Their fetish with these players is getting old.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 6:52 am
by HumbleRen
There’s not a world in 2025 where Mobley is better than KD.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 7:22 am
by falcolombardi
Mavrelous wrote:LeBron and AD are not top 10 players.
Curry was leading a lottery team for 2 years while healthy until he got Butler and he's the 4th best player in the league?
Their fetish with these players is getting old.
Can you name 10 players you would prefer to have in a playoff series over 2025 curry and lebron? (I agree on davis)
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 7:45 am
by Mavrelous
falcolombardi wrote:Mavrelous wrote:LeBron and AD are not top 10 players.
Curry was leading a lottery team for 2 years while healthy until he got Butler and he's the 4th best player in the league?
Their fetish with these players is getting old.
Can you name 10 players you would prefer to have in a playoff series over 2025 curry and lebron? (I agree on davis)
Are we taking the RS out and the assumption of having to play roughly 100 games at 34MPG? LeBron, Steph and Jokic are the best 3 players in the league, but Steph and LeBron can't be relied on for full season and PO and and on similar level teams many players outperform them over full season.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 8:52 am
by UcanUwill
falcolombardi wrote:Mavrelous wrote:LeBron and AD are not top 10 players.
Curry was leading a lottery team for 2 years while healthy until he got Butler and he's the 4th best player in the league?
Their fetish with these players is getting old.
Can you name 10 players you would prefer to have in a playoff series over 2025 curry and lebron? (I agree on davis)
AD was best Laker quite easily before the trade, he had his best personal season to date before injury, he can easily be in the top 10. LeBron probably not. Overall, I think the list is valid, KD when healty was still also very good.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 9:48 am
by sisibilio
Wemby is 4th at worst. Also Brunson should be a lock and certainly above Curry.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 9:53 am
by sisibilio
Tier 1 - Jokic
Tier 2 - Giannis, Luka, Wemby
Tier 3 - SGA
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:12 am
by MoneyTalks41890
Shai is at 1.
Jokic can try to take it back.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:13 am
by kuclas
Icarus_prime wrote:Fully healthy:
1) Jokic
2) SGA
3) Giannis
4) Curry
5) Luka
6) Tatum
7) Wemby
8) LeBron
9) AD
10) Edwards
Honourable mentions: Kawhi, Brunson, Haliburton, Mitchell
Health-included:
1) Jokic
2) SGA
3) Giannis
4) Luka
5) Edwards
6) Brunson
7) Mitchell
8) Haliburton
9) Curry
10) Mobley
If embiid is healthy he’s in the top 5. Except I don’t think embiid will be every fully healthy again.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 2:19 pm
by Wolveswin
sisibilio wrote:Tier 1 - Jokic
Tier 2 - Giannis, Luka, Wemby
Tier 3 - SGA
lol. MVP in tier 3.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 3:11 pm
by boomershadow
I think this board slightly overrates the over 35 stars of the past decade.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 3:39 pm
by MAMBAEMD
Shai
Joker
Giannis
Luka
Wemby
Edwards
AD
Brunson
Mitchell
LeBron
Honorable mention KD, Kawhi, and Curry
Tatum and Hali unfortunately injured and will miss most if not the entire season
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 4:05 pm
by sisibilio
Wolveswin wrote:sisibilio wrote:Tier 1 - Jokic
Tier 2 - Giannis, Luka, Wemby
Tier 3 - SGA
lol. MVP in tier 3.
It is what it is. I'm not saying he didn't deserve the MVP, just that he's not as impactful as those other guys.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 4:16 pm
by frica
Mavrelous wrote:LeBron and AD are not top 10 players.
Curry was leading a lottery team for 2 years while healthy until he got Butler and he's the 4th best player in the league?
Their fetish with these players is getting old.
Kareem missed the playoffs while in his prime multiple times.
**** happens.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 5:36 pm
by Wolveswin
sisibilio wrote:Wolveswin wrote:sisibilio wrote:Tier 1 - Jokic
Tier 2 - Giannis, Luka, Wemby
Tier 3 - SGA
lol. MVP in tier 3.
It is what it is. I'm not saying he didn't deserve the MVP, just that he's not as impactful as those other guys.
It’s ok to be wrong. Way too much credit for a Wemby who did nothing last year. And SGA over Luka too.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 5:48 pm
by Wolveswin
Tier 1: Jokic | Giannis
Tier 2: SGA | Luka
*Only reason SGA not tier 1, is both Jokic and Giannis have the ‘carry-franchise-take-over-a-game/series’ gene…so far. SGA has plenty of time to showcase that too.
Tier 3: Wemby | Edwards
*Wemby can jump tiers if he can stay healthy.
Tier 4: Brunson | Mitchell
Tier 5 (the injured Star tier): Hali | Tatum
Tier 6 (the oldie-but-still-goodie): James | Curry | KD | Kawhi | Harden
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 5:54 pm
by Primedeion
Curry at 4 is ludicrous.
Re: Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025
Posted: Sun Jul 6, 2025 5:56 pm
by falcolombardi
Wolveswin wrote:Tier 1: Jokic | Giannis
Tier 2: SGA | Luka
*Only reason SGA not tier 1, is both Jokic and Giannis have the ‘carry-franchise-take-over-a-game/series’ gene…so far. SGA has plenty of time to showcase that too.
Tier 3: Wemby | Edwards
*Wemby can jump tiers if he can stay healthy.
Tier 4: Brunson | Mitchell
Tier 5 (the injured Star tier): Hali | Tatum
Tier 6 (the oldie-but-still-goodie): James | Curry | KD | Kawhi | Harden
What has shai done all year if not carry the thunder offense?
Game 4 vs grizzlies (low stakes as it was), game 5 vs denver, game 4 vs pacers, game 4 vs wolves