{"id":72,"date":"2016-08-15T19:37:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T19:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-10-25T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:18:07","slug":"ranking-the-top-five-players-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/08\/15\/ranking-the-top-five-players-in-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking The Top Five Players In The NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

These rankings are based on personal opinion of who the top five NBA<\/strong> players are going into the 2016-2017 season. Past or potential future performance are not taken into consideration. The rankings are based on the assumptions that all players are 100% healthy.<\/p>\n

Ranking The Top Five Players In The NBA<\/h2>\n

1.\u00a0LeBron James<\/a><\/h3>\n

LeBron James proved once again that when the time comes, he remains undoubtedly the best player in the world. James has held this title since the beginning of this decade (if not longer), and while many in the media had handed that title over to Stephen Curry<\/a> for the past two seasons, this year\u2019s NBA Finals<\/strong> showed that James has not fallen off his pedestal quite yet. Leading both teams in all major categories<\/a>, James dominated the Finals in a fashion we had never previously encountered.<\/p>\n

2. Stephen Curry<\/a><\/h3>\n

Stephen Curry took the NBA by storm over the past two regular seasons. He brought\u00a0home back-to-back MVP<\/strong> trophies and leading the Golden State Warriors<\/strong> to the NBA\u2019s all-time best regular season record at 73-9 this past season. Currybroke his own three-point record<\/a> with a ridiculous 24 games left to play. His\u00a0shooting touch rivals anyone who has ever played. His play has dazzled fans over the past two seasons, leading him to be considered the NBA\u2019s best player, taking LeBron James\u2019 throne until the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

Curry is still in the conversation for the best player in the world. He must elevate his game when it matters most to either claim or reclaim his place on top, depending on who you ask. \u00a0It will be very interesting to see what the addition of a certain free agent signing to the<\/a> Warriors<\/a>. \u00a0Which also leads us to our next player\u2026<\/p>\n

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These rankings are based on personal opinion of who the top five NBA players are going into the 2016-2017 season. Past or potential future performance are not taken into consideration. The rankings are based on the assumptions that all players are 100% healthy. Ranking The Top Five Players In The NBA 1.\u00a0LeBron James LeBron James […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,48],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-lebron-james","tag-stephen-curry"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}