The 2023-24 NBA season is a little more than a month away, so it’s an opportune time to preview the upcoming season.
CBS Sports used the downtime to create its annual top 100 NBA players list. Its NBA staff ranked the best 100 NBA players heading into the new season based on how they think they’ll perform.
How the rankings were formulated as explained below:
“Each of CBS Sports’ eight NBA staff writers — Brad Botkin, James Herbert, Jack Maloney, Sam Quinn, Bill Reiter, Ameer Tyree, Colin Ward-Henninger and Jasmyn Wimbish — submitted individual lists of their top 100 players in the NBA for the upcoming 2023-24 season, and results were calculated by assigning a point value to each player’s place on each writer’s list. A player ranked No. 1 received 100 points, while a player ranked No. 100 received one point, and the cumulative point totals were used to determine the order for this year’s edition of the CBS Sports NBA 100.”
The Oklahoma City Thunder have four players in the rankings, let’s look at where they rank and the justification for it.