2024 was a somewhat unique year in the basketball world in that not only did we have 2023-24 and 2024-25 NBA regular season action, as well as the 2024 playoffs, but we also had the 2024 NBA Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympics, giving us a huge sample size of high-level games to look at.
As such, today, we’re going to take into account all of those important events, some more prestigious than others, to rank the 24 best NBA players for the entire calendar year of 2024.
(Note: The NBA stats listed below each player take into account every NBA game played by the player in 2024, including the 2023-24 regular season, the 2024 play-in tournament, the 2024 playoffs, the 2024-25 regular season so far and the 2024 NBA Cup.)