With the NBA season officially underway, and with the extension season having taken so many talented young players off the already-anemic free agency board for next summer, we take a deeper look at the top 20 (possible) players in this 2020 class. It all starts with the Lakers’ Anthony Davis, who so many team executives and agents believe is in Laker Land to stay. There are plenty of other free agency situations worth monitoring for the next eight months, too, even if those players aren’t nearly as celebrated as AD. The list, and all the relevant intel, is below.

Welcome to the start of Lakers free agency.

(Confusion sets in, considering July 1 is a LONG ways away…)

Let me explain.

When the ball goes up inside the Staples Center at the start of the NBA regular season on Tuesday night, Anthony Davis will be wearing the same Lakers jersey that they hope he slips on at the start of next season too. And the season after that, and the season after...