NBA 2K’s Top 20: Their last FIBA appearances

MIES (Switzerland) – Basketball’s biggest stars who have shone in FIBA competitions lately feature among the top 20 players in the latest NBA 2K27 ratings.

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The ranking is based on their efforts with their NBA franchises the past season.

The new No. 1 is Canada's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who played last month with Canada in the World Cup 2027 Americas Qualifiers.

The Oklahoma City playmaker won back-to-back regular-season MVP awards in 2025 and 2026 and finished second in the NBA in scoring in 2026, averaging 31.1 points per game. He became the first guard in NBA history to average more than 30 points while shooting better than 55 percent from the field.

At the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, he led Canada to a historic third-place finish and their first-ever podium in the competition. He was rewarded with a place in the All-Star 5. One year later, SGA led Canada to fifth place at the Paris Olympics, their first appearance at the Summer Games in 24 years.

Jumping all the way from No. 9 in the previous NBA 2K26 ranking to No. 2 is France sensation Victor Wembanyama, whose all-around play spearheaded the San Antonio Spurs’ run to the 2026 NBA Finals. He will play next week for Les Bleus in Window 4 of the World Cup Qualifiers.

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Wemby leapfrogged the previous edition’s No. 1, Serbia’s Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets, who remains high at No. 3 after another astonishing NBA campaign in which he averaged a triple-double, posting 27.7 points, 12.9 rebounds and 10.7 assists per game.

Serbia host France in Belgrade on Thursday, while Jokic and Co. will face Wemby and Les Bleus again in Orleans on Sunday.

Newcomers to the top 10 include USA guard Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks, the NBA Finals MVP, and Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham.

Brunson has been a USA player since capturing the FIBA U18 AmeriCup title in Colorado Springs. One year later, he scooped the MVP award at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup in Crete after helping the USA to the title.

With the senior team, he was a valuable member of the USA roster that finished fourth at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Manila.

Cunningham made a splash for the USA at the 2019 FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup, also in Crete, playing a leading role in the team's title run.

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