Every fall you see a new plethora of ‘Top 100 Player’ rankings across the league, which covers roughly the Top 20% ot talent. If player talent were perfectly balanced, each team would get three. The other 12 on each roster make up the rest of rotations and end of benches.
But talent is not evenly distributed. Some teams have 5 of these players while some have just one or two. Maybe even none. Often the rankings are influenced by recent play — check out rocket rise of Mikal Bridges and Cameron Johnson, and the slide of Chris Paul — while others hold steady year over year.