NBA power rankings and top 10 lists are funny things. It’s pretty rare for anybody to agree completely with them–most fans who read them end up tweeting angrily at authors afterwards based on their team getting somehow hosed.
Still, people love reading (and writing) them. It’s fun to start a conversation, or an argument. So in that spirit, here’s a list of who the best ten players in the Eastern Conference will be next season.
Team fits are taken into account in these rankings, because they do matter. A certain shooting guard in Chicago is absolutely one of the ten most talented players in the East, but because his team decided to add two other guards who also can’t shoot he won’t be put in good positions to succeed this season, and thus wasn’t included here.