This year's NBA Rank features massive turnover from 12 months ago. A full 25 of our top 100 players weren't ranked a year ago, the biggest turnover from one list to the next since 2019. Although one of those players (No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg ) wasn't eligible entering his lone season at Duke, the rest elevated their standing in the league with strong performances.

With that in mind, let's take a look at which players could join the NBA Rank top 100 next season after falling short this year.

Notably, we're excluding players who fell off the list solely because of injury. Tyrese Haliburton , Damian Lillard and Jayson Tatum , expected to sit out all of 2025-26 because of their Achilles ruptures suffered in the playoffs, plus Kyrie Irving (who could return from an earlier ACL tear

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