Miami Heat: 4 players listed on ESPN top 100 players rankings
By Jack Simone
Every season, most major news outlets put out their rankings of the top NBA players around the league. With how good the Miami Heat are right now, they are bound to have at least a couple of players on those lists.
Earlier this offseason, we here at All U Can Heat put together a list of the top 50 players in the league. Recently, ESPN came out with their top 100 list.
They put it out in parts, releasing the back 50 first, then another group, then another. With each new batch of players, Miami Heat fans had to look out for their favorite players.
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Now, unfortunately, no one on the Heat fell in the top five on ESPN’s list. That title went to Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, LeBron James, Luka Doncic, and Stephen Curry.
However, Miami did have some players scattered around the rest of the list. In total, they ended up having four players listed inside the top 100.
There are a bunch of Miami Heat players who have the potential to be on ESPN’s list. The clear favorites are Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo, but plenty of other players on the team have a clear case to be top 100 at the very least.
In the end, one player ended up in the top 20, one in the top 25, one in the top 50, and one more in the top 100. Which players do you think deserved to be on this list?
So, who ended up being listed in the top 100 by ESPN? Did they deserve it? Did someone else on the Miami Heat get snubbed?