For the second year, Flashscore offers you its ranking of the 100 most anticipated players of the 2024/2025 NBA season. From place 80 to 71, many will have to make amends this season.
On both legs, the Latvian is an incredible player, an asset to any team. But he still has to be on his two legs… The majority of the campaign playoffs of the NBA champions took place without him, 7 games in the postseason, 57 in the regular season. If he avoids injuries, it’s Top 30. But to find traces of a season with more than 70 games, you have to go back to his rookie season. And Boston showed they didn’t necessarily need him to win.
Stats 2023/2024 : 20.1 points, 7.2 rebounds
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: 70 games, 22 points, 10 rebounds, 40% from three points
Only 25 games last season for the man whose career has been in free fall since his selection all-star and the huge contract that resulted. Mentioned in trade rumors, he saw DeMar DeRozan take the tangent this summer in his place. Having once again become on paper the Bulls’ strongest player offensively, he will have to prove it. Under penalty of falling into oblivion.
Stats 2023/2024 : 19.5 points, 34.5% from three points
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: 25 points average
For several seasons, the main quality found in the former Laker is… his declining contract which makes him an ideal candidate to strengthen a contender. He’s still in the capital, doing stats but with a terrible -8 plus/minusand we still don’t know if the Wizards rebuild will be done with him. Time to prove he still has talent.
Stats 2023/2024 : 22.2 points, 6.6 rebounds
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: 25 points, trade to a contender
Glorified as the best third offensive option at the time of the Nuggets’ coronation in 2023, it is clear that his status has evolved, but not for the better. Fewer points, less skill, some defensive progress certainly, but far from the player we definitely hoped to see explode 12 months ago. The Nuggets have revenge to take, MPJ too.
Stats 2023/2024 : 16.7 points, 7 rebounds
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: 20 points average
The end of an era took place in Golden State with the departure of the second Splash Brother, who we thought would end his career under the colors of the Warriors, but the decline in performance and the criticism got the better of him. Heading to the Mavericks, recent finalists, it remains to be seen whether he will be able to integrate into the collective and regain his skill and his defense. Otherwise, his end to his career could be tasteless.
Stats 2023/2024 : 17.9 points, 38.7% from three points
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: 20 points, 40% at three points
Announced leaving the Raptors for years, he ended up leaving Canada for the Big Apple. But the method Thibodeau got the better of his body, which gave up several times, including playoffs. What does a place in the conference final cost? Difficult to know, but the Knicks are armed to the teeth this season, and even if it was extended at a high price, difficult to know how important it will be.
Stats 2023/2024 : 14.6 points, 1.4 interception
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: All-NBA Defensive First Team
He left New Yorkconstrained and forced, main counterparty of the trade of Karl-Anthony Towns. All after a season ended at the end of January, due to a recovered injury. Recovered, it seems that he has a real chance of playing in Minneapolis, even if it would be necessary to work on the complementarity with Rudy Gobert. Is there a real chance of finding Randle at the level of his MIP in 2021? Now or never.
Stats 2023/2024 : 24 points, 9.2 rebounds
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: clearly become Wolves’ No. 2 option
A year after his arrival in the NBA, the debate over his selection 2nd in the draft ahead Scoot Henderson died and buried. Miller showed some great things, a lot of promise, but the fact is that he still belongs to one of the worst franchises in the league. And if he doesn’t prove crucial to help her progress, all his good performances won’t be of much use.
Stats 2023/2024 : 17.3 points, 37.3% from three points
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: 20 points, 40% at three points
The gloom in Portland, stuck between promising young shoots and players capable of contributing immediately. But wouldn’t the leader be in both categories? The direction of the franchise isn’t entirely clear, but Simons, he has already shown his potential. Except that he is coming off a season ruined by injuries and that he will have to prove that the future of the Blazers depends on him first and foremost.
Stats 2023/2024 : 22.6 points, 5.5 passes
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: 25 points / 8 passes
After only three seasons in the NBA, the Pelican obtained recognition from its peers: a selection in the All-NBA Defensive First Team. Logical, deserved, and sufficient to enter this ranking. But from now on, he will be a little more expected in attack, except that it will be complicated to shine in this area with the equipment available to New Orleans. A career as an elite defender is not death, but we sense so much potential…
Stats 2023/2024 : 11 points, 41.8% from three points, 1.4 steals
Reasoned objective 2024/2025: Candidate Defensive Player Of the Year
