 What's the word y'all? I created the ultimate top 100 lists when it comes to the NBA. This is something that I've been waiting to do forever and now the season is around the corner and it's finally here. Some of y'all like Kenny, this goes against all of your philosophies of ranking NBA players. And you're right. And you're absolutely right. So I'm saying this is not my ranking but I've accumulated every single publication's top 100 lists but I'm all in a spreadsheet added all the numbers divided all the numbers to make the ultimate top 100 lists. So this has Bleach Report, ESPN, The Ringer, CBS Sports, Hoops Hype, the Bleach Report community. And one more that I guess I didn't have in my notes but seven different publications have put together top 100 lists. And I was waiting for Sports Illustrated and The Washington Post but they ain't done it yet. The season started a couple of days y'all. What are we waiting for? Watch, they're gonna drop theirs tomorrow. I just know and I'm gonna have to adjust my numbers. But regardless, this was a fun few hours of work honestly. I've never in my life wanted to learn how to code more than this moment because I feel like there's an easier way to do this than to type it in one, then two, then three all the way down to 107 different times. But either way, I got the list. So there are a lot of cool things about the list that I'll show you. The coolest is a total of 133 people who got at least one vote for top 100 players in the league. And if you think about it, that is an insane amount of players. I would have to go back through our history to look at last year to you before that but I would assume this is a career high. It's a testament to how deep our actual league is where a player can be considered not in the top 100 on one list but definitely in the top 100 in the next one. Another thing I realized is that none of us know what the heck we talking about. None of us. There's a wide range between a lot of these players and it goes to like my philosophy when it comes to raking players. It's that is saying that this person is number one, this person is number two. I like to say he's between number three and he's in between number seven. And you kind of get an idea of the ranges based on the experts opinions. And when you think about all the publications and the way they ran their list, this is an accumulation of a ton of different basketball minds. You think about how many people voted for Bleach Report when you think about how many people voted for ESPN, CBS Sports, it's not just like one guy taking control of the entire list. We're talking companies worth of writers and viewers. Again, none of us know what we're talking about. But let's get it to the list. So this is what I mean when I say that I wish that I knew how to code because it's basically just in a Google spreadsheet. But what you see right here is the actual ranking. So according to majority of experts, Jokic is the best player in the league but according to one place he was as far as four but for the most part he is a consensus best player in basketball. Again, what I did is I added up the numbers of every single publication, then found the average and whoever had the average, the higher average ended up taking the spot. Okay, cool. So Yannis, according to people were number two, his range is one through three. Some people had them three and they had Luca number two and Luca got as low as number six but as high as number two. So that's what I mean when I talk about that range. We got Curry, Embiid, Tatum, Durant, Booker, please like some players names will be spelled wrong or weirdly Booker, that's just, I was rushing with typing, just got to, you just gonna have to accept it. This is the top 10 and then Jimmy Butler and number nine will be Shay Gildes Alexander. Jimmy is a player that is interesting because in one place he was as high as six and other places he was more like 13. LeBron is another case of a wide range where he was number seven on some people's list but he got as low as 16 on others which is extremely, extremely low if you ask me, but you're not, are you asking me? I don't think you're asking me. Now every other publication has their own philosophies, right? Some of these people like ESPN and Bleach Report are trying to predict the 2023, 2024 and other ones don't really give you a frame of reference of what their thought process is. So that also can kind of mess up the experiment but again, I think this is just overall fun. For example, Damian Lillard and Anthony Davis, they had the exact same average. So technically we have Anthony Davis 12 and Damian Lillard 13 where they're really tied at 12 and then Kawhi will be 14 because they both had an average of 12 and a half. Actually that exists here as well between Joel and Beat and Tatum. They both ended up having a 5.5 averages so technically they're tied for fifth, for you Celtic fans that were mad about Tatum being lower than a Beat or vice versa, I don't know. Trey Young range was interested in as well as lowest 30. Actually a lot of people had Trey Young at 30 but in one place he was number 17. Jaylen Brown was from 17 here to 32 there. And that's why, again, I try to look at it in ranges but I also try to look at it in tiers because that could be one singular tier of player between 17 and 32. I'm not saying that is the case but it could be. You could argue that. I'm still a point that I was saying nobody really knows what they're talking about because that is a huge, huge wide range. I wanted to just go through every single one just so you people at home can see where your favorite players are. So we have Deer Fox at number 17 here. One that was interesting was Jha because ESPN had Jha 35 mostly thinking that hey, he's gonna miss 25 games at a season so how can he be this valuable if he's missing 25 games? I'm not saying I agree with that but that was their philosophy. Why everyone else had him around 14, 13, 15, 16 and as low as 21 but that 35 outlier kind of messed up his statistics where his average being millip, millip, decimals? What am I trying to say? Decimals lower than Deer Fox. If it wasn't for the ESPN outlier here then he would be higher than Deer Fox. He'd actually be as high as about 15 on his list if this number wasn't so large. Harden was a player that was really polarizing. This third column here, D column is ESPN. I maybe should have put him at the E column so it's easier to remember. Either way ESPN had him at 43. Bleacherport community had him at 41 but BR himself had him at 22. CBS Sports had him at like 23, 23, 23, 23 across the boards but these few ones here brings James Harden all the way down to 29. As always Zach Levin and DeMar DeRosen are right next to each other. Actually Jalen Brunson and Drew Holliday are tied at 35. Their average is exactly the same. So they are tied at 35 when you wonder who is the best point guards in the Eastern Conference. Well according to this, Trey Young is number one but the other points guards at least across the board are Western Conference guys. So according to the rankings, Trey Young is number one and then you have Drew Holliday and Jalen Brunson tied with Darius Garland right on their tails but still beneath them. Palo at 41 was a very interesting one to see the sophomore year player get that high. I'm not saying it's right or wrong but just interesting. He's one above Lamello, one full point above Lamello. Desmond Bain was a guy that was as low as 61 for Bleacherport but also as high as 36. Lamello ball, number should be way higher but I forget who this H column is, had him at 84. Well everyone else was like, ah, he's 30, 40 range, 84? There's no way I could get behind that personally. That's just too low for the production that Lamello ball provides. I understand his team hasn't necessarily been very good under his tenure but remember that team was like a 20 something early, low 31 team that he came in immediately, they were 40 wins and last year of course they weren't healthy and they were going through a lot of stuff. So hopefully whoever said he was 84 will realize this season that he's probably a lot higher than that. Let's get to the next group of players that have like Draymond Green, Fred Van Vleet, Dejante, Murray, Kay, Cunningham back to back. It was interesting to see a guy like Kay Cunningham. What would the consensus be? Because again, Kay hasn't played a ton of basketball. His rookie season was solid, started off slow but ended up being solid. Then obviously last year only played like 17 games or so. So as you can see, some people had him at 74. That's the Bleacherport fans. But for the most part, he's consistently in the 50s range, let's say that. Ogyon Nobby, a player that was 46 some places but ended up being down to like 69. Franz Wagener, 80 in the last place we did but as high as 52. Or I guess 50 is as high as. Then it gets a little bit interesting because the way I kind of did things, for example, Victor Wiminiamas here, it's the 65th player, right? As you can see at the end of his bar, there's a 101 and a 101, which means that these last two publications did not do any rookies. So Scoot, Wimby, Chat, the guys that you expect to be on this list that is on the list for a lot of other publications. They didn't do any rookies at all. So that brings Wimby down the 65th but if you just look at the sample size of the people that did rank him, his average was 54, which would have put him at like the 53 range. So he'd be right under Tarris Maxi as it wasn't for these two numbers bringing him down. So I just thought that was overall interesting. A guy like DeAndre Aiden was high as 49 but at one publication, he did not make the list at all. So his numbers are down too because for whatever reason, the one group of people was like nah, he's not that guy. Marcus Smart as well. Marcus Smart had one place that he was not listed at all but he ended up being as high as 58 in other places. Nikola Vusovich had the craziest range at all of them. And I'm not just saying that because what, my fandom lies. But there are some people that was like, hey, Vusovich is still a top 50 player in ball. What have they been watching recently? It beats me. But other places like nah, Vutz don't deserve to be on this list at all. So they said he's either in the top 50 or missing completely. That's insanity. So the reality is probably in the middle somewhere like in the 80s and the 70s. He's definitely not as high as 57 but he's definitely, I think in the top 100. I think JJ Redick went on a whole spiel about ESPN putting together their top 100 list and leaving Derek White off it at all. And I was going into this expecting that there would be more publications to lead Derek White off. Nope, just ESPN. ESPN was the only place like Derek White is not a top 100 player. He was as high as 62 in some places or 53 in others. But ESPN not having him at all broke his rating down quite a bit where he's below Vucovic and Kalkuzma and so on and so forth. Daylan Green, another player that did not get rated. This wasn't ESPN. Let me make sure that. I think that E is CBS Sports. No, E is the ringer. So the ringer did not have him ranked at all and every other place had him on the list. Some people as high as 44. Whoa, I didn't realize that was he got that high. Chris Paul, no votes here on G but also across the board made it in like the 70s range. But because of that, he's down to 77. Claxton did not get rated at all at ESPN. And I also think that's as inexcusable as the Derek White one. I understand that this offensive game is a lot to be desired. Don't get him involved to create for himself. But the defense of versatility and all of those things makes me think that he would be a top 100 player. But again, also I'm not a guy that creates my list myself. But comparing to some of the other people that made their list versus didn't make their list, Claxton feels like a guy that should have been in there nonetheless. He ends up at 78. Check another example of a rookie player that got 2-1-0-1s at the end of it. So if we got rid of the 2-1-0-1s, he would be at 75. So it didn't bring him down too much. Malcolm Brogdon had two places that said, nah, we don't think you top 100. But the other places had him as high as 56. And that's why I start to make the argument about how the talent level is just so insane that you could look at Malcolm Brogdon and say absolutely he's a top 100 player while other people would be like, nah, absolutely not. Here's school Henderson. He would be at 78 if it wasn't for these two ending ones. So right around where Chet is right now. Then Jada McDaniels also didn't make ESPNs. I know this is not about ESPN's list because we already did a video about them, but these are things I did not notice in my original video, but he ended up not making it at all. But for the most part, except for this one place here, he is a consistent 90-ish player, which makes sense. He's got a lot to add to his game, but what he does now he's really good at. It's just about continue to add different elements to it. Caruso saw an appearance twice. So one, two, three, four, five, six out of our eight publications say no, Alex Caruso is not top 100, but the two people that did see him had a pretty high. It wasn't like, some of these people don't make the list and then other places they're like 92, 93, like okay, he's borderline. These other places did not, I think the CBS Sports did not have him borderline. It's like Alex Caruso is comfortably in the top 100 while majority of people was like, nah, not so fast. Shaden Sharp had majority of nuns and then had a 63 in here. He's tied with Jordan Clarkson. These two people are tied at 101. It was just surprising. Cause this right here, the 92 is the BR community, which makes sense. He's a young, high-flying, fun, exciting future player. So it makes sense that the BR consensus kind of steered young and upside versus production right now. But this last one was like, hey, he's one of them one. Bro, this last one has them better. They're like, come on, Ludi, Keegan Murray. It has them higher, 20 spots higher than Jada McDaniels. And I did go through all these lists and I didn't want to exclude a publication because I personally thought that their list was kind of crappy. I didn't want to do that because again, these are like different basketball minds. And in this case, maybe they prioritized something different, even though I can't say it's right, I can't, I can't. I can't look and see what Shaden Sharp achieved last season versus what Jada McDaniels achieved last season, say, ah, that's my guy. And even if we're projecting for this upcoming season, I still think there will be growing pains and though I think Shaden Sharp is gonna be a stud one day. Jada McDaniels is an all defensive player type player already and he hit merely 40% from through, you know, his production, especially when you talk about what he could do on pretty much all 30 teams. Objectively, in my opinion, is better than what Sharp has. But that's like, this is our real top 100. Jabar Smith, Jr. ends the top 100. Then after this is where we start talking about the people that did not make the top 100 necessarily, but were in other people's lists like Shaden Sharp or John Collins or Mike Connelly, Jr., what is the weirdest name we got? And Nyeka Kangul, that's what 00 is for the people at home. He only placed once. He only placed once in 89. So lower on the list, but he did place. Fissure Dinwiddie, only placed once, 90th, but he placed. You know, we gotta get the respect. Him and Markel Foltz are tied at 121. Markel placed two different times, but lower than what Fissure Dinwiddie placed at one time. And the lowest on the whole list is Cal Anderson where he placed a once at 99. He placed absolutely one time at 99. And then like Grant Williams placed a few different times at 100 and then 97. And KCP placed a couple of times off the championship run, but for the most part, towards the bottom of the list. So if we're doing what we originally thought between Nicola Jokic and Jabari Smith, Jr., these are the top 100 players in ball. And of course, it's a top 100 list. So there's a lot to be argued here or there, but I'm waiting to see if Sports Illustrator puts together their list and puts it out on the internet anytime soon. And that will adjust my numbers a little bit, but again, these are the respected people that put together lists. You tell me who's too high or too low, tweet them at me or use them in the comment section where I'm always down there. This is the ultimate top 100 list from Jokic to Jabari Smith, Jr.