In one sense, NBA rankings are completely meaningless. We are merely humans, unable to predict the future, and forever blind to incoming unforeseen events. Will player X blow out his knee in December? Will the sun explode next week? We just don’t know.
In another sense, NBA rankings are everything — they give fans a reason to get emotional, in both good and bad ways, and give us content writers a way to easily judge how a player (and, collectively, a team) is doing. The more Toronto players on the list suggests something, even if we don’t know what that is yet.