Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA show. My name is Chris Ryan. Today I am joined by Justin

Varyer. Hello and Danny Chow. Hello. We are talking about an article on a web blog called

the Ringer.com and it's a top 25 players of the first 25 ish games. You can find this

post on the ringer.com tons of other basketball content up there for you. But we did a list of

the top 25 players of the league so far this season. So the sample size is small, which

created an interesting list. I think we had some basic like, oh yeah, of course these guys

are going to be at the top. But there was a lot of surprises. There was a lot of guys

who maybe we thought might be higher. We might wind up being lower. We pulled the Ringer

NBA staff. So the voting block is basically anybody who wrote or edited NBA content for

the ranger.com. Anyone we can find really including Bill Simmons. Yes. So he had his list.

Everybody submitted their top 25. It went into the Zach Kram machine. It came out with

this 25. I think we're all relatively satisfied with it. I just want to run through the top

10 and then we can start talking about some surprises that we had on list. You can find

the full list on the ranger.com. It's very easy to find right there. Number one player,

number on James, number two, Harden, number three, Yannis, number four, Steph, number five

KD, number six, Kyrie, number seven, Boogie, number eight, Anthony Davis, number nine,

Chris stops, number 10, Joel and B Justin. Somebody's missing from that top 10. They sure

are the reigning MVP. But he's right there. He's close by. He is. He's 11. But let's talk

a little bit about I think Westbrook's decline out of the conversation of is he the best

player is maybe is one of the like the biggest conversations this year. Right. It's interesting

because the surprise I got out of Westbrook being 11 wasn't that he's fallen this much.

It's that actually we all kind of were in a consensus about where he was in the league.

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