2025 NBA Rank finale: Where superstars Jokic, LeBron and Durant land in our top 10?

Our 2025 NBA Rank wraps up arsenic we interruption down the last apical 10 players successful the league!

A longtime staple successful our last rank, wherever did LeBron James autumn this twelvemonth up of his 23rd play successful the NBA? Which MVP, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander oregon Nikola Jokic, landed higher? Do the caller faces successful the apical 10 merit a higher spot successful the rank, oregon volition they autumn retired adjacent year?

To get the last NBA Rank, we asked our adept sheet to ballot connected subordinate vs. subordinate matchups from much than 20,000 imaginable pairings. Voters were asked, "Which subordinate volition beryllium amended successful 2025-26?" and had to foretell however each subordinate would execute this season.

Our countdown kicked disconnected with our ranking of players Nos. 100-51 connected Tuesday alongside Kevin Pelton's predictions of which players tin participate the ranks adjacent year. They continued connected Wednesday with Nos. 50-11 paired with our NBA experts debating the last results. We travel to a adjacent contiguous with the apical 10, including who our sheet deemed to beryllium the champion subordinate entering the 2025-26 NBA play and what questions loom ample for the superstars.

Check retired the results below.

Note: ESPN's NBA Rank panel, made up of much than 150 reporters, editors, producers and analysts, was asked to fertile players based connected their predicted contributions -- prime and quantity -- for the 2025-26 play only. Due to their semipermanent injuries, Jayson Tatum, Tyrese Haliburton, Damian Lillard, Kyrie Irving, Dejounte Murray and Fred VanVleet are not portion of this season's rankings.

NBA Rank: Nos. 100-51 | 50-11 | Insiders: NBA Rank debate | Pelton: Who's adjacent successful 2026?

10. Jalen Brunson, G, New York Knicks

2024 NBA Rank: 12

Last play brought Brunson's 2nd consecutive All-Star and All-NBA second-team selections. In conscionable 3 years, Brunson has moved himself onto the abbreviated database of the champion players ever to deterioration the bluish and orange. That besides included starring the Knicks to the Eastern Conference finals for the archetypal clip successful 25 years and to a 3rd consecutive twelvemonth with astatine slightest 1 playoff bid victory, which hadn't happened since the glory days of the 1990s and aboriginal 2000s. The lone acceptable result for Brunson and the Knicks this season, though, is to afloat interruption done and scope the NBA Finals for the archetypal clip this century.

Biggest question: How volition Brunson set to caller caput manager Mike Brown?

For the past 3 years, Brunson's meteoric ascent to superstardom successful New York has been associated with Tom Thibodeau, with whom determination was a wide enslaved of spot and admiration. Thibodeau has had a agelong tally of occurrence with gathering offenses astir tiny guards and Brunson took the accidental to go the person of his ain squad with the Knicks and ran with it...