This Video Of The Top 100 NBA Plays From 2015-16 Will Make You Hate The Offseason Even More

Hi everyone. We’re still stuck in the NBA’s offseason. It’s still awful. Don’t worry, we hate these months when there’s no basketball just as much as you do.

While we’re (im)patiently waiting for the season to start in October, we’re constantly looking for ways to get our hoops fix. Thankfully, the NBA came through for us when it released this video of the top-100 plays from the 2015-16 season.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but the No. 1 play was LeBron James’ chase-down block of Andre Iguodala from Game 7 of the 2016 Finals. While everyone has watched it dozens of times, it’s still one of the most unbelievable plays in NBA history. LeBron makes another cameo in the top-5 for his huge alley-oop that provided an exclamation point on Game 3 of the Finals.

The top-5 is rounded out by perhaps the three best point guards in the league. Huge plays by Russell Westbrook and Stephen Curry appear, as does another moment from the Finals because Kyrie Irving is a magician. There’s never a dull second when these three dudes are on the court, and the plays that the NBA selected to make its top-5 reinforces that belief.

Some truly jaw-dropping plays warrant a much higher ranking, by the way. This sky-walking block by pint-sized guard Shane Larkin definitely deserves better than No. 81 on the list, right?

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There definitely weren’t 59 efforts better than Kevin Durant’s slithery-smooth drive against a helpless Julius Randle and the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Giannis Antetokounmpo’s incredible coast-to-coast, euro-step, lefty poster dunk over Serge Ibaka was probably our favorite play of the entire season.

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Well, other than LeBron’s legendary block, of course.

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Whether you agree with the rankings or not, watching this video will definitely make you look back fondly on what was a really fun 2015-16 season. But if you’re like us, you’re going to watch this video and get really antsy, because we’re three months away from the start of the 2016-17 season and that day can’t come soon enough.

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