NBA Player Power Rankings

It's hard to believe, but the NBA season is already more than a quarter complete, and there have been plenty of individual performances to marvel at.

With that, here's a cumulative ranking of the season's best players thus far, put together by theScore's NBA editors. Remember that these rankings are based solely on 2016-17, with no weight given to past performance or future projections.

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DeMarcus Cousins, Marc Gasol, Kyle Lowry

The futile Kings are outscoring opponents with Boogie on the floor for a third straight season, Gasol has become an elite 3-point shooter without a drop-off in other dominant areas of his game, and Lowry is shooting 50-54-85 over his last 14 games.

10. Giannis Antetokounmpo

The Greek Freak leads the Bucks in points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, free throws, and field goals while seeing time at four positions. He literally does everything for a team that could challenge for the postseason if they added a few outside shooters. Antetokounmpo is a nightly 5-by-5 threat and only turned 22 a week ago. The best is yet to come for the Greek wunderkind who came from nothing. - William Lou

9. Jimmy Butler

Some feel Butler took a step back last season, which wasn't the case. There was also concern about how he'd mesh with Dwyane Wade, but despite Wade's solid play there's little doubt the Bulls are Butler's team. As good a two-way player as you'll find in the NBA, Butler is posting career-highs in points, rebounds, true shooting percentage, and PER. - John Chick

8. Stephen Curry

Durant’s arrival has caused Curry's individual numbers to take a bit of a hit, but the 28-year-old sharpshooter still ranks among the most lethal offensive threats in the game today. While he's not hitting threes at nearly the same rate as last year's record-breaking campaign, the three-time All-Star is still on pace to finish 2016-17 with 308 long-bombs - 22 more than he sank during his first MVP season. - Patrick Britton

7. Kawhi Leonard

The San Antonio Spurs have made the smooth transition from having a franchise player who was a beast defensively with a relatively reserved demeanor, to a franchise player ... who's a beast defensively with a reserved demeanor.

Leonard, the reigning two-time Defensive Player of the Year, has embraced his newfound responsibility as the team's defacto leader, as well as continuing to assert himself as perhaps the best two-way player in the entire league. The Spurs are still as dominant as ever, and he's the primary reason why that's the case. - Chris Walder

6. Chris Paul

With all due respect to Curry's dominance over the last couple years, the Point God has re-assumed his throne atop a historic crop of point guards. Paul is scoring as efficiently as ever, while continuing to put teammates in the best position to score, and leading the league in Win Shares for the second time in his career.

Not to mention, the offensive wizard - who's leading the Association in steals for the seventh time in 10 years - impacts the game defensively much more than one-dimensional point guards impact it offensively. - Joseph Casciaro

5. Anthony Davis

There's a case to be made that Davis would be sitting atop the early season MVP heap if he were surrounded by even average (or at least healthy) teammates. As it is, he's doing everything he can to drag the Pelicans to a measure of respectability, whether it's going to work in the post, making marauding rim runs, draining mid-range jumpers, giving his teammates a massive and sure-handed pick-and-roll target, cleaning the defensive glass, or affecting shots 25 feet from the hoop.

He's second in the NBA in scoring, fifth in usage, and tops in PER, all while averaging a league-high in minutes. He's stuck on a lousy team but his individual brilliance has been second to almost none. - Joe Wolfond

4. LeBron James

LeBron's 25 points per game are his lowest since his rookie season, but that gives the impression that King James is slowing down, and he's most certainly not.

LeBron is one of three players this season on pace to become the first since steals were tracked in 1973 to average at least 25 points, nine assists, seven rebounds, and a steal, and his on-court impact remains sublime. In 285 minutes with James on the bench, the Cavs have a net rating (-2.6) worse than the Wizards and Kings, while posting a net rating (+10.9) better than everyone outside Golden State in the 771 minutes he's on the court. - Joseph Casciaro

3. James Harden

Two-time MVP Steve Nash is often named as the quintessential point guard for Mike D'Antoni's revolutionary offense, but Harden might claim that title. The Bearded One is averaging more assists than Nash ever did while also doubling Nash's career scoring average. Harden's brilliance has the Rockets tied for third in the West and they haven't missed a beat since shedding Dwight Howard. - William Lou

2. Russell Westbrook

With Durant out of the picture, Westbook has emerged as the undisputed leader of the Thunder and one of the best players in the world. He's doing it all, as evidenced by the triple-double he's averaging and his historic usage rate, which is north of 40 percent.

Not only is he putting up numbers we haven't seen since His Airness, but Russ is willing his team to perform better than expected, especially at the offensive end. OKC is on pace for 50-plus wins, and it has its explosive point guard to thank. - Victoria Nguyen

1. Kevin Durant

Durant has mind-melded with the Warriors as quickly and seamlessly as anyone could've hoped, stepping into the center of the team's ecosystem without disrupting its balance one iota. He's scoring more efficiently than any high-usage player this season, and he's doing it while facilitating, rebounding, and disrupting shots and passes as effectively as he ever has. No one else ticks as many boxes. Durant is the league's most terrifyingly complete player. - Joe Wolfond