The 25 Best Players In The NBA Right Now

Imagine the NBA is starting from scratch — a full reboot. Who would the top 25 draft picks be?

Brandon Anderson
SportsRaid

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Imagine a world where all NBA contracts are three years long and the league resets itself from scratch after every three-year window.

Now imagine this summer is a reboot year.

Perhaps the league did this to counteract the superteams, maybe to throw a little chaos into the mix. Whatever the reason, I gathered a panel of NBA experts in serge, Luke Goodman, Jonny Moy, and Rob Myers to join me in projecting how a reset draft might go.

Who would you take if you were building an NBA team from scratch for the next three years and had the #1 pick? You get the player as is — at their current age, skill, and health level (ignore their contracts). Is LeBron the top pick? Where do recent MVPs Westbrook and Curry land? What about guys like Kyrie Irving or DeMarcus Cousins?

We had our panel rank their top 25 picks and compiled them into one list of their composite rankings. Here are the results, broken into tiers — and this was our full redraft through three rounds.

Simply The Best

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Brandon Anderson
SportsRaid

Sports, NBA, NFL, TV, culture. Words at Action Network. Also SI's Cauldron, Sports Raid, BetMGM, Grandstand Central, Sports Pickle, others @wheatonbrando ✞