ESPN’s 14th annual top 100 player rankings for the 2024-2025 season have been released. ESPN’s expert panel was asked: “Which player will be better in 2024-2025?” for player-versus-player matchups with over 15,000 possible combinations to determine an order.

The first half of the top 100 rankings can be found here (though no current Sixers were featured). Most of the remaining half were released on Wednesday, including Tyrese Maxey and Paul George.

ESPN ranked George 21st overall, ahead of names like Kawhi Leonard, Damian Lillard, Paolo Banchero, Kyrie Irving, De’Aaron Fox, Zion Williamson, Jimmy Butler and Karl-Anthony Towns. His teammate, Tyrese Maxey, was just ahead of him at 19th overall, above the aforementioned names and Ja Morant, who was sandwiched between them at 20th in the rankings.

ESPN has not yet released the top-10 rankings, but the names that appear above both Maxey and George are as follows: Bam Adebayo, Donovan Mitchell, Tyrese Haliburton, Devin Booker, Jaylen Brown, Anthony Davis, Jalen Brunson and Victor Wembanyama.

It’s easy to put together rankings on who should or shouldn’t be above George or Maxey with them being among such a talented group. However, it’s fun to follow trends on where players have progressed or regressed. ESPN’s rankings also show where these players were a year ago, with some big changes.

For example, Maxey was ranked 42nd in the overall standings a year ago. George’s position has not changed much from last year, this year from 18th to 21st. It’s a highly anticipated season for the Sixers, so it’s possible these rankings will look very different a year from now.

Joel Embiid will almost certainly be featured somewhere in the top 10, so we’ll just have to wait and see where he ends up.