{"id":204886,"date":"2025-07-31T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/204886\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:23:11","slug":"ranking-nbas-top-56-players-for-2025-26-where-knicks-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/204886\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking NBA&#8217;s top 56 players for 2025-26 \u2014 where Knicks fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the dead time of the NBA calendar, a span that lasts roughly the two months between the end of Summer League and training camp.<\/p>\n<p>There are still <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/29\/sports\/mikal-bridges-extension-one-of-three-tasks-still-on-knicks-offseason-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some unresolved matters with the Knicks<\/a> \u2014 namely the Mikal Bridges extension, the last free-agency spot and filling out the assistant coaching staff \u2014 but those topics are either stagnant or, at this point, boring.<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s have fun with a list. Everybody loves lists, right?<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it\u2019s an extensive one: the top 56 players in the NBA (that random number is to include the fourth Knick).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the dead time of the NBA calendar, a span that lasts roughly the two months between the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,123,20219,288,563,304,185,1260,6,1136,191,3810,3806,253,741,3823,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-204886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","10":"tag-inside-the-knicks","11":"tag-jalen-brunson","12":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","13":"tag-knicks","14":"tag-lebron-james","15":"tag-mikal-bridges","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-knicks","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkknicks","21":"tag-nikola-jokic","22":"tag-og-anunoby","23":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114947358889365116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}