Ranking the NBA's top 100 players: Victor Wembanyama enters 2026-27 season at No. 1

There was a time not so long ago in NBA history when teams believed that they could simply assemble two or three of the top 20 players in the NBA and waltz their way to an NBA championship. Not anymore. Just consider how the last handful of NBA champions have fared in our annual ranking of the top 100 players in the league: Your inclination will almost certainly be to focus on the beginning of the list. Who's No. 1? Who's rising into superstardom? What older players are starting to slip?