NBA Rank 2025: Rankings for the top 10 players in the league - ESPN

Our 2025 NBA Rank wraps up as we break down the final top 10 players in the league!

A longtime staple in our final rank, where did LeBron James fall this year ahead of his 23rd season in the NBA? Which MVP, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander or Nikola Jokic, landed higher? Do the new faces in the top 10 deserve a higher spot in the rank, or will they fall out next year?

• Nos. 10-1: Who's No. 1?
• Nos. 50-11: Who just missed the top 10?
• Nos. 100-51: Flagg's debut ranking
• Picks for 2026: Pelton's 10 players to watch
• Roundtable: Biggest snubs and surprises from the new top 100

To get the final NBA Rank, we asked our expert panel to vote on player vs. player matchups from more than 20,000 possible pairings. Voters were asked, «Which player will be better in 2025-26?» and had to predict how each player would perform this season.

Our countdown kicked off with our ranking of players Nos. 100-51 on Tuesday alongside Kevin Pelton's predictions of which players can enter the ranks next year. They continued on Wednesday with Nos. 50-11 paired with our NBA experts debating the final results. We come to a close today with the top 10, including who our panel deemed to be the best player entering the 2025-26 NBA season and what questions loom large for the superstars.

Check out the results below.

Note: ESPN's NBA Rank panel, made up of more than 150 reporters, editors, producers and analysts, was asked to rank players based on their predicted contributions — quality and quantity — for the 2025-26 season only. Due to their long-term injuries, Jayson Tatum, Tyrese Haliburton, Damian Lillard, Kyrie Irving, Dejounte Murray and Fred VanVleet are not part of this season's rankings.

NBA Rank: Nos. 100-51 | 50-11 | Insiders: NBA Rank debate |