Oct 5, 2026 · 15 min · 9 segments
NBA Season is upon us, and I'm dropping my top 25 players heading into the 26-27 season! Here are players ranked 25-21! Welcome to Off The Ball — New York sports, real opinions, no filter. Off The…
Chris LebronHost
Kinda my criteria of this list, everybody has their own kind of criteria, how they do their top 25, top 50, whatever, top NBA players.
I'm just straight up saying who I feel like are the 25 best players in my opinion entering the season.
Last season obviously is a big part of, you know, kind of my philosophy heading into this year, but there's a lot of different aspects.
But I'm just gonna base a lot of it off last year and who I just feel like are the best players [laughs] simply heading into 26-27 season.
Obviously there's gonna- with this list, people are gonna assume biases and this is just me just being real and just being honest about who I feel are the top 25 players heading into the season.
So this episode will go through 25 to 21 and therefore and thereon we'll go on from, you know, do five players in each and then obviously revealing number one with the last pod.
I will drop, you know, some, some teasers, you know, on the socials so make sure to check me out on there.
So further ado, let's get into it and we're gonna go into with the f- my first s- pick of my top 25 entering at number 25, and some people may think he should be higher, some people may think lower.
He's one of those players that, you know, there's a lot of, uh, you know, different feelings about this player.
And, um, we're gonna start with J Dub, Jalen Williams from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
They missed him 'cause he, he missed playoff time, missed regular season time, you know.
Kinda my criteria of this list, everybody has their own kind of criteria, how they do their top 25, top 50, whatever, top NBA players.
I'm just straight up saying who I feel like are the 25 best players in my opinion entering the season.
Last season obviously is a big part of, you know, kind of my philosophy heading into this year, but there's a lot of different aspects.
But I'm just gonna base a lot of it off last year and who I just feel like are the best players [laughs] simply heading into 26-27 season.
Obviously there's gonna- with this list, people are gonna assume biases and this is just me just being real and just being honest about who I feel are the top 25 players heading into the season.
So this episode will go through 25 to 21 and therefore and thereon we'll go on from, you know, do five players in each and then obviously revealing number one with the last pod.
I will drop, you know, some, some teasers, you know, on the socials so make sure to check me out on there.
So further ado, let's get into it and we're gonna go into with the f- my first s- pick of my top 25 entering at number 25, and some people may think he should be higher, some people may think lower.
He's one of those players that, you know, there's a lot of, uh, you know, different feelings about this player.
And, um, we're gonna start with J Dub, Jalen Williams from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
They missed him 'cause he, he missed playoff time, missed regular season time, you know.
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