The Top 30 NBA Players Right Now

Let's make a list.

Good morning! Can you believe it’s almost August? Time flies when you’re waiting for the Knicks to sign a backup center.

PSA: I’ll be traveling tomorrow, so the next newsletter this week should be coming your way on Wednesday.

The Top 30 NBA Players Right Now

Good morning friends. I hope the end of July finds everyone in good spirits and good health.

As many of you know, I’m reaching the tail end of a West Coast sojourn as you read this. What started out in boiling Las Vegas has wound up in sunny San Francisco. After a quick detour to Napa today, the Macri clan will be heading back to New York tomorrow. I’ll drop some of the best pics from my trip in a newsletter later this week.

In the meantime, it’s that time of year. Whenever I have a planned vacation, one of my favorite articles to pre-write is a ranking of the top current players in the NBA. The inspiration for this summer’s edition came via KFS reader and frequent questioner, Cole:

The Ringer’s Top 100 player ranking (in addition to the trade value list) is a great, but imperfect reference. Can you take a stab at your top 20 players? Who are the main candidates to take a leap into that tier this year?

As anyone who has ever listened to one of our Patreon episodes knows, I think lists of this nature can do more harm than good, mostly because they’re often delivered devoid of context. To explain why, let’s look at our own Jalen Brunson.