It’ s a gimmick as old as time itself or at least as old as the college football coaches poll: Power Rankings. Here at The Athletic, my colleague Zach Harper and his committee of one does a very popular weekly power rankings of NBA teams from best to worst. This ranking system will be just like Zach’s only much more subjective because we’ll be ranking the ever-evolving universe of NBA player style.
Following almost any NBA player on social will reveal an almost comical obsession with what they wear to games. The meticulousness with which these guys document their outfits even going so far as to tag every single brand they’re wearing in each post – as if to say “Hey High End Brand X, look at me!” – is an indication of just how seriously these guys take this stuff. So we’re going to dive right in with them. Think of this first initial batch of rankings the same way you would the initial rankings of any college basketball or college football season.
