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LeBron James & Kawhi Leonard lead NBA 2K20 player rankings

It's still LeBron's NBA, as he leads the NBA 2K20 player rankings, just edging out defending NBA champion Kawhi Leonard.

Ozzie Mejia

July 15, 2019 5:59 PM

With the wild NBA offseason starting to settle down, the team at 2K Sports got into the topic of individual player ratings. On Monday afternoon, the team took to Twitter to stream out the top player ratings in the game. The top player in the world shouldn't be much of a surprise, as this is still LeBron

To finish off today's livestream, the 2K Sports team was joined by new Los Angeles Lakers acquisition and NBA 2K20 cover athlete Anthony Davis to reveal the Top 10 overall players. Here's the full Top 10:

LeBron James (Los Angeles Lakers) - 97
Kawhi Leonard (Los Angeles Clippers) - 97
Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) - 96
Kevin Durant (Brooklyn Nets) - 96
James Harden (Houston Rockets) - 96
Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors) - 95
Anthony Davis (Los Angeles Lakers) - 94
Paul George (Los Angeles Clippers) - 93
Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers) - 92
Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers) - 91

Both James and Leonard share a 97 player rating, with James edging out the defending NBA champion by mere decimal points.

NBA 2K20's top rated duos were also revealed, with the new Los Angeles Lakers tandem of LeBron James and Anthony Davis sitting at 95.5. They narrowly edge out the new Los Angeles Clippers duo of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, with Brooklyn's Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving (93.5) and Houston's James Harden and Russell Westbrook (93) just behind them.

The rookie class was also given a brief spotlight, with New Orleans Pelican rookie Zion Williamson topping this year's class with an 81 overall rating. He sits just ahead of Memphis Grizzlies rookie point guard Ja Morant, who sits with a 79 ranking.

NBA 2K20 will arrive on September 6 on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The game will also release on Google Stadia when that platform launches.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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