Alperen Sengun, Amen Thompson, Fred VanVleet, Tari Eason, Dillon Brooks, and Jalen Green are all in The Ringer\u2019s latest top-100 NBA player rankings.<\/p>\n
The Houston Rockets<\/a> finished the 2024-25 regular season with the second-best record (52-30) in the Western Conference, and yet they didn\u2019t have a single All-NBA player.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes you, sometimes me, always us,\u201d was the team\u2019s unofficial mantra<\/a>.<\/p>\n With that in mind, it shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise that Houston is among the league leaders in its volume of quantity players. In The Ringer\u2019s June 2025 rankings<\/a> of the NBA\u2019s top-100 players (out of more than 500 in the league), the Rockets have six representatives in total.<\/p>\n Though the Rockets represent just one out of 30 teams (3.3%), they\u2019ve nearly doubled that percentage in top-100 players (6.0%). In effect, Houston largely overcame its lack of superstar quality with a greater depth and quantity of very good players.<\/p>\n Here is a roundup of Houston\u2019s six players on the list, along with a brief description of each from The Ringer. Deeper analysis is available at the full list<\/a>.<\/p>\n No. 36: Alperen Sengun<\/p>\n Passing warlock with Rumble Pak physicality\u00a0whose development arrow keeps pointing up.<\/p>\n No. 41: Amen Thompson<\/p>\n Apositional wonderregularly challenging the laws of space and time.<\/p>\n No. 64: Fred VanVleet<\/p>\n Houston\u2019s no-nonsense primary caregiver, whose high-volume 3-point shooting and elite defensive instincts allow him to transcend his stature.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n No. 88: Tari Eason<\/p>\n Lightning in a bottle of gasoline, quickly asserting himself as one of the most overwhelming perimeter defenders in the league.<\/p>\n No. 93: Dillon Brooks<\/p>\n Physical pot stirrer whose persona\u00a0overshadows some tough shotmaking and hard-nosed defense.<\/p>\n No. 98: Jalen Green<\/p>\n Stupefying athlete\u00a0with the veneer of an elite scorer. If only the underlying numbers painted the same portrait.<\/p>\n The Ringer\u2019s complete list of all top-100 NBA players can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n