What is the biblical basis for praying to Jesus, as opposed to praying to God in the name of Jesus?

John 16:25-27

25) These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. 26) At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: 27) For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Jesus addressed this in terms of reconciliation. Reconciliation to God, by Jesus Christ; spoken of in terms of faith (vs.27), gives access to God, directly. Even so:

Hebrews 7:25 “...He Ever liveth to make intercession for the saints.”

Edit:

After looking closer at the Q, this answer may appear antithetical (rhetorically speaking), this was not intentional.

To clarify, I don’t think that praying to, or praying through Jesus, can be in conflict; according to the passage.

"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me" (Hebrew: לא יהיה־לך אלהים אחרים על־פני‬) is one of the Ten Commandments found in the Hebrew Bible at Exodus 20:2 and Deuteronomy 5:6, which establishes the exclusive nature of the relationship between the nation of Israel and its national god, Yahweh the god of Israel

now ask your self this is Jesus god or the son of god we are all children of god so is it not a sin to pray directly to Jesus and even if it is not a sin to pray to Jesus before god then whats to stop a believer in god from praying to god directly

The key point in the verse you quote is in the Greek text where the word ‘me’ occurs twice, not just once. Here is the literal English translation of the Greek in vs 14:

“if ever anything you should ask me in the name of me this I shall do.”

So, Jesus is not just saying, ‘Ask [i.e. pray as I won’t be around in person for you to speak directly to me] in my name and I’ll do it.’ No, he’s saying, ‘Ask ME in my name and I’ll do it.’ He gives his followers permission to pray to him.

We see the Christian, Stephen, praying to the risen Christ just as he is being stoned to death. This is detailed in Acts 7:54-60. Although Stephen had seen both the Father and the Son, together, in his vision of heaven, Stephen addressed Jesus with, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Further, the NT uses the phrase, “calling upon the name of….” to refer to worshipping the one whose name is called upon. That’s in Acts 2:21 which quotes the OT text Joel 28-32, and in 1 Corinthians 1:2 – “To the Church of God in Corinth… who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

This means that to call upon the name of Jesus is to worship him, and prayer is one of the most basic forms of worship there is. After all, if a Christian was locked up in solitary confinement, about the only form of worship he or she could engage in would be singing God’s praises, and praying to God. To pray to God is to worship God. To pray to Christ is to worship Christ as God, and the Bible gives Christians the green light for that.

If Jesus was a created angel then it would be absolutely wrong to pray to him as prayer is a form of worship, and angels must never be worshipped by humans, not even bowing down before them. The Bible shows that in Revelation 19:9-10 and 22:8-9. Yet Jesus accepts exactly that adoration of bowing down before him (Revelation 1:17).

Now, if Jesus the Son subsists in the One Being of God (as the Trinity doctrine teaches), then we most certainly can pray to him as we would be praying to the One Being of God, not to any creature who is distinct from God. And Jesus told his followers that the Father had given him his name – John 17:11, “Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name – the name you gave me.”