CBS' top 100 going into the upcoming season.

[Hey Yo]

The players ranking from last year is listed also. Every team has at least 1 player chosen.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-top-100-players-ranked-how-lebron-james-jayson-tatum-anthony-edwards-stack-up-ahead-of-2024-25-season/

[Real Men Wear Green]

Melo Ball at 58 seems way too low. I am one of the first to say a player being injured too much hurts value but he is still too young for the "injury-prone" label.

[post]

65 too low

https://i.postimg.cc/K8J27xjd/75580238-3186402378054931-6964460886903750656-n-1.jpg

[Airupthere]

2 top 11 players in one team? They should be the favorites to reach the finals this year.

[Carbine]

Melo Ball at 58 seems way too low. I am one of the first to say a player being injured too much hurts value but he is still too young for the "injury-prone" label.

At this point in time Lamelo is not a winning type player. If you placed him on the Celtics right now he would have a very rude awakening in terms of his attitude and mindset towards the game.

His stats overrated the hell out of him.

[Real Men Wear Green]

At this point in time Lamelo is not a winning type player. If you placed him on the Celtics right now he would have a very rude awakening in terms of his attitude and mindset towards the game.

His stats overrated the hell out of him.
I'm not sure what the Celtics would do with him but he would be an important part of the rotation whether he started or not. I'm not a fan of saying a guy is or is not a winner in place of a real argument for our against him addressing his skills, impact, strengths and weaknesses. If you want to hold his defense against him as a reason why the Celtics wouldn't start him or why Jaylen Brown is a better player, sure, ok. But saying there are 57 better players because he's "not a winner?" Come on. He averaged 24 and 8 and he's just 23 years old. He's never been on a team good enough to win at a high level. Love Derrick White but if he takes Ball's place in Charlotte they're not any better and probably worse. When he was in San Antonio he won nothing, would it have been fair to judge him harshly because he wasn't a "winning player?"

[Carbine]

You can be a winning player on a losing team. That was White. Caruso is a winning player. These kind of guys have the right mentality, right skills to fit in with championship teams.

Lamelo being a losing type player has nothing to do with his teams record and everything to do with his game. He's ball dominant, high turnover, low defensive game and intangibles do not mix well with a championship caliber roster. When you reduce his role, you significantly alter his imprint on a game because he's just flat out bad without the ball in his hands and he's not good enough to be "that guy" with the ball in his hands and produce championship caliber teams around it like Luka

[Real Men Wear Green]

This is like "aura," or a guy being a "dog" before that. It's just how you feel about a guy with no real meaning.

[Full Court]

2 top 11 players in one team? They should be the favorites to reach the finals this year.

They're also the pair that has done the most underachieving in the history of the sport though.

But yes, on paper they SHOULD be the favorites to reach the finals.

[RRR3]

This is like "aura," or a guy being a "dog" before that. It's just how you feel about a guy with no real meaning.
:applause:

[Manny98]

Honestly not a terrible list :applause: