Current Top 100 Ranking:\u00a069<\/p>\n
Realistic 2030 Range:\u00a0Top 70<\/p>\n
2030 Dream Ranking:\u00a0Top 50<\/p>\n
Realistic Notable Stars He Could Leap:\u00a0Robert Parish (68), Joel Embiid (66)<\/p>\n
Dream Stars He Could Leap:\u00a0Gary Payton (53), Russell Westbrook (48)<\/p>\n
Kyrie Irving is another player who’ll spend the bulk of the 2025-26 campaign recovering from a serious injury. He’s now in his mid-30s and is coming off a torn ACL.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, the chances of him climbing much higher on this list are slim. Not gone entirely, but certainly slim.<\/p>\n
However, if Kyrie does get back to 90-95 percent of his old self, he could crack the top 50 on the all-time scoring list within a few years. Combining that with his ball-handling, shooting and cultural impact could make a climb possible. Soaring up might require another title run, though. <\/p>\n
If you believe Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison, he’ll get that shot. Cooper Flagg may extend his window, too.<\/p>\n
But at 33, and in an age when seemingly a third of the league has a realistic shot every year, winning even one more figures to be tough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current Top 100 Ranking:\u00a069 Realistic 2030 Range:\u00a0Top 70 2030 Dream Ranking:\u00a0Top 50 Realistic Notable Stars He Could Leap:\u00a0Robert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-16995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}