We are just over a week away from the launch of NBA 2K25, and over the past week the team at 2K has been slowly trickling out their top 100 players in the game.

Player ratings are always a hot topic of discussion, especially in basketball where it can be extremely difficult to quantify what certain players do well. The stars are pretty easy to get a handle on, as are shooters, but the guys whose best attributes are things other than scoring the ball can be tricky for a video game to get right. We see that in the top 100 ratings for NBA 2K25, as bucket-getters tend to get a boost (see: Cam Thomas) whereas a swiss-army knife type defender (Jaden McDaniels) doesn’t get quite the same love.