The game of basketball has been around for many generations and each player competes every year with each other to be the best in the league.

Even the greatest of all time (GOAT) left a mark on this sport to be remember for their remarkable achievements that we know still today that still out performed current players today.

Now ESPN reporters, coaches, and fans wonder who’ll rise up and take control over the sport itself. So we ask our self who is currently the best NBA player in the League of 2017-2018?

Back when the rankings debuted, basketball wasn’t even being played, thanks to the 2011 lockout. According to ESPN, final ranking was made by their expert panel to vote by quality and quantity of each player’s contributions to his team’s ability to win games.

So our top players Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Stephen Curry, Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Russell Westbrook, Anthony Davis, Chris Paul,Giannis Antetokounmpo, and Draymond Green have been selected as the top 10 overall group from the rest.

So why are these players have been chosen to be in this position? As this rumor conflicts on where the person deserves his spot in the NBA , we want see who dominates their game from everyone else. It’s not enough to have climax your peak for just a season or two, but the stretch of destroying competition means more than maintaing an elite level of play that doesnt reach the next stratosphere. In that same versatility is the second-most important quality for an all timer. It draws more focus to the individual on how their game has increased all around or their dominating position and defending opponets to increase their ranking.

Next comes defense, because its the key to winning and stats. Even though, a lot of highlights, hoop mixtape, or ‘ballislife’ videos has been shown as video evidence of a player’s scoring ability but defending also shows  from not letting your opponent to score. It also effects you’re rating as a player to not let the other team score at will.Both offense and defense are known to judge a prospect player but the inability to play due to injuries in games can cause a decrease in player rankings too.

Injuries and injury risks are an component of this judgment. Past performance (postseason included) observed heavily in our assessment, with a skew toward the recent. First-year players aren’t included.

A predictive element as well came into play with the anticipated improvement of certain younger players, as the possible decline of aging veterans. Younger or current players will have opportunities to rise above them based on performance and not by salary.  Otherwise, players were ordered based on their complete games.

After those judgments, now the best basketball player is determined. As of results Lebron James currently  rank as #1 of the NBA. The witness test and metrics agree:

LeBron James is still King.

He’s on a streak of 12 consecutive top-five finishes in MVP voting, tied for longest streak of its kind in league history. He could become the first player ever to win MVP in his 15th season or in the future . James has finished in the top spot in each seven seasons, ESPN.com has unveiled the annual preseason player rankings.

He’s one of only two players that average at least 25 points, 6 rebounds, and 6 assists for his career. LeBron’s numbers are actually 27.1, 7.3, and 7.0 — the other being Oscar Robertson.

He is one of five players with four NBA MVPs, alongside Wilt Chamberlain (four), Michael Jordan (five), Bill Russell (five), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six), and not done yet. He became the youngest ever and just the seventh player in NBA history to reach 30,000 career points. The king is the first person to have 30,000 points, 7,000 assists and 7,000 rebounds.As you well know, he is the only player in modern NBA history to play in the seven straight Finals.

The 6’8″ all-around player is projected by ESPN Stats & Information’s Zach Bradshaw, James will move 10th place by the end of next season and pass Abdul-Jabbar as the all-time leader during his age-39 season in 2023-24.

Bradshaw’s model uses historical data to estimate the change in players’ scoring average and games played due to age.

“Once a player has peaked, the decline in games played is less drastic for franchise-caliber players than typical NBA players, which was accounted for in the model,” Bradshaw stated. “Points per game tends to decline at a faster rate than games played.”

Such a decline still has James projected to average 16.2 points per game in 62 projected games played during the 2023-24 season, enough to pass Abdul-Jabbar’s record of 38,387 points.

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