Thinking Basketball Top 10 players of 2025

Icarus_prime · Post #1 » by **Icarus_prime** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 6:06 am

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

bonita_the_frog · Post #2 » by **bonita_the_frog** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 6:18 am

The highest IQ?
Durant, you can plug him in any system and he scores with perfect efficiency.

Post #3 » by **Mavrelous** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 6:28 am

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.

HumbleRen · Post #4 » by **HumbleRen** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 6:52 am

There’s not a world in 2025 where Mobley is better than KD.

falcolombardi · Post #5 » by **falcolombardi** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 7:22 am

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)

Post #6 » by **Mavrelous** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 7:45 am

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.

UcanUwill · Post #7 » by **UcanUwill** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 8:52 am

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.

sisibilio · Post #8 » by **sisibilio** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 9:48 am

Wemby is 4th at worst. Also Brunson should be a lock and certainly above Curry.

sisibilio · Post #9 » by **sisibilio** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 9:53 am

Tier 1 - Jokic
Tier 2 - Giannis, Luka, Wemby
Tier 3 - SGA

Post #10 » by **MoneyTalks41890** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:12 am

Shai is at 1.

Jokic can try to take it back.

kuclas · Post #11 » by **kuclas** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:13 am

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.

Wolveswin · Post #12 » by **Wolveswin** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 2:19 pm

sisibilio wrote:Tier 1 - Jokic
Tier 2 - Giannis, Luka, Wemby
Tier 3 - SGA

lol. MVP in tier 3.

Post #13 » by **boomershadow** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 3:11 pm

I think this board slightly overrates the over 35 stars of the past decade.

MAMBAEMD · Post #14 » by **MAMBAEMD** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 3:39 pm

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

sisibilio · Post #15 » by **sisibilio** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 4:05 pm

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.

frica · Post #16 » by **frica** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 4:16 pm

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.

Wolveswin · Post #17 » by **Wolveswin** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 5:36 pm

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.

Wolveswin · Post #18 » by **Wolveswin** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 5:48 pm

Primedeion · Post #19 » by **Primedeion** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 5:54 pm

Curry at 4 is ludicrous.

falcolombardi · Post #20 » by **falcolombardi** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 5:56 pm

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