2020-21 Fantasy Basketball Sleeper - Nemanja Bjelica

"'Tis the season to be drafting /Fa la la la la, la la la la" With fantasy drafts in full swing, all of us are doing our final preparations for that glorious draft night! Spreadsheets open, two notebooks and four pens in front 0f me, I've got another monitor linked up with my laptop. I'm […]

Steven Adams (C, NO) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 64 Overall CURRENT ADP: 78 ANALYSIS: The rumors finally became a reality, with 1) Oklahoma City entering full rebuild-mode and 2) Steven Adams being moved out of town as he didn't make much sense to keep there anymore. That's why Adams in now a Pelican and will share the court with […]

Brook Lopez (C, MIL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 72 Overall CURRENT ADP: 89 ANALYSIS: After eight seasons playing big-man-ball, Brook decided enough was enough all the way back in 2017, when his three-point attempts jumped from 0.2 per game to 5.2 while still in Brooklyn. From that point on, Brook has been stretching the floor day in and day […]

Tristan Thompson (PF/C, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 85 Overall CURRENT ADP: 135 ANALYSIS: With the addition of Andre Drummond last season, the paint of the Cavs' squad was getting a little clogged. Thompson, a free agent this offseason, thus opted to bolt away and pack his bags to land in Boston where he will be the no. 1 […]

Joe Harris (SG/SF, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 90 Overall CURRENT ADP: 130 ANALYSIS: The Nets made it very clear from the very first moment that one of their priorities this offseason was to re-sign UFA Joe Harris, which they did at a high $75-million deal for the next four years. That's no small dough, folks, and even with […]

Bogdan Bogdanovic (SG/SF/PF, ATL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 80 Overall CURRENT ADP: 96 ANALYSIS: Leading-man Trae Young bitched about the Hawks organization not making enough of an effort to put the team closer to the playoffs by last season's trade deadline. Atlanta added Clint Capela, but he couldn't even debut for the team. In another flurry of moves, the […]

Goran Dragic (PG/SG, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 84 Overall CURRENT ADP: 117 ANALYSIS: While Dragic was a key piece in Miami's run to the Finals, the truth is that he inflicted most of his 2020 damage once the Heat arrived in the bubble. Prior to that, Dragic had riden the pine all year long ceding starting-PG duties to […]

Malcolm Brogdon (PG/SG, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 48 Overall CURRENT ADP: 61 ANALYSIS: The Bucks decided to pass on re-signing Malcolm Brogdon a couple of offseasons ago, and now folks are saying that it could cost them Giannis re-upping with the team to some extent. Will Brogdon also be part of Victor Oladipo's decision to stay or leave […]

Will Barton (SG/SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 95 Overall CURRENT ADP: 131 ANALYSIS: It was a real shame that we couldn't watch Will Barton ball inside the bubble last season. Denver surely missed him at times, and who knows what would have happened had he been available during the WCF... Anyways, looking at Barton's regular-season numbers from last […]

Nikola Vucevic (C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 20 Overall CURRENT ADP: 35 ANALYSIS: I know. I know this series is meant to highlight draft sleepers. While Vuc is not a literal sleeper (ADP nearing 35) he is definitely an undervalued player, so I'm writing about him whether you like it or not. A modern, floor-stretching big, Vucevic might […]

Mohamed Bamba (C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 100 Overall CURRENT ADP: 120 ANALYSIS: Although Bamba is actually getting drafted by fantasy GMs this season (ADP of around 120), he should be much better for the Magic than that number suggest. Mo has ample competition in Orlando to get heavy playing minutes in the zone, sure, but while Bamba […]

Michael Porter Jr. (SF/PF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 50 Overall CURRENT ADP: 62 ANALYSIS: It took Michael Porter Jr. (or better said, Denver) time to look like the late-season version of himself, but it finally happened. After red-shirting for a year in 2019, Porter debuted last season for the Nuggets and the truth is that his 55 games (and […]

Buddy Hield (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 40 Overall CURRENT ADP: 58 ANALYSIS: For someone with so many doubts around his name and role entering 2021--not to mention he's part of the very putrid Sacramento Kangz--, Hield's ADP is rather high in peak draft-season. Even then, though, Hield's performance levels of 2020 were better than his current ADP would make you […]

Andrew Wiggins (SG/SF, GSW) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 53 Overall CURRENT ADP: 75 ANALYSIS: Wiggins split time between cold Minny and sunny San Francisco last season, and although he could only play 12 games for the Warriors while put on a completely new system for him, his numbers didn't drop a lot. That bodes well for him entering 2021, a […]

Eric Gordon (SG/SF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 128 Overall CURRENT ADP: 142 ANALYSIS: Gordon’s fantasy value hinges on the status of stars John Wall and James Harden. Gordon has minimal when both are on the floor, but due to Harden's pending trade request and Wall's injury history, Gordon could have a ton of value as we get deep into […]

Shake Milton (PG/SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 130 Overall CURRENT ADP: 145 ANALYSIS: Milton’s season was a story of two halves as he filled in for an injured Ben Simmons much of the year. As a starter he posted a more than respectable 12.5 points and 3.8 assists a game, while that dropped to a meager 4.9 points […]

Delon Wright (SG/SF, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 130 Overall CURRENT ADP: 142 ANALYSIS: Wright has always been a solid rotational guard in the league and a player you were happy to pick up when injuries happened to players in front of him.  Now in Detroit, the veteran guard could find a nice role with Derrick Rose and rookie […]

Lugentz Dort (SG/SF, OKC) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 120 Overall CURRENT ADP: 141 ANALYSIS: Entering his second season, it is clear that the Thunder covet Dort’s skill set as he played over 34 minutes in three of six playoff games he made an appearance in. That was highlighted by his monster 30-point outing against the Rockets in which he […]

Hamidou Diallo (SG/SF, OKC) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 150 Overall CURRENT ADP: 175 ANALYSIS: Oklahoma City is in full rebuild mode. The Thunder will now enter test-the-waters mode and thus they will be forced to play their young guys to see what they have in the roster, who can stay, and who's not worth keeping going forward. That means […]

Darius Garland (PG, CLE) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 145 Overall CURRENT ADP: 197 ANALYSIS: It's not that we're in love (no pun intended) with Cleveland, but you always have to go after young players in bad teams. The Cavs are precisely that, a bad team headed to another high-lottery pick that's going to be forced into giving their recently-drafted […]

Jakob Poeltl (C, SAS) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 145 Overall CURRENT ADP: 195 ANALYSIS: Poeltl's not the safest pick of the year, as his role in San Antonio hasn't been super consistent over his two seasons there. But he started all eight games in the bubble, averaging 8.3 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 0.9 steals, and 1.4 blocks per […]

Gary Harris (SG/SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 170 Overall CURRENT ADP: 190 ANALYSIS: Sure, the days of Gary Harris being a future star have passed us, but he's still a valuable player in real life, even if that doesn't always translate to fantasy production. Harris is only 26. His career track thus far is...weird. Harris has seen drops […]

Luke Kennard (SG/SF, LAC) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 142 Overall CURRENT ADP: 165 ANALYSIS: Kennard was sent to the Clippers as part of a deal that also sent Landry Shamet to Brooklyn. I think we should expect Kennard to slide into the role that Shamet had, which should be good news for Kennard, even if it's accompanied by a drop […]

Jonas Valanciunas (C, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 54 Overall CURRENT ADP: 69 ANALYSIS: After playing just 49 games in 2019, Jonas Valanciunas was on the court 70 times last year as a full-time Grizzlie for the first time since Toronto traded him two years ago. And oh boy, did he delivered. JoVa, while averaging a lo 26.4 mpg […]

Evan Fournier (SG/SF, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 90 Overall CURRENT ADP: 107 ANALYSIS: Evan Fournier was a little fantasy-bouncy last season and the truth is that nobody knows where these Magic are going. Will Fournier still be in Orlando come trade-deadline day? Hard to know. But for now, Fournier looks like one of the best players in the […]

Andre Drummond (C, CLE) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 25 Overall CURRENT ADP: 40 ANALYSIS: Andre Drummond was traded from Detroit to Cleveland last season, and all of the time he had to adapt to a new system came down to eight games. Not the best of situations, that's for sure. Good for fantasy GMs, though, Drummond had already shown […]

Dennis Schroder (PG, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 100 Overall CURRENT ADP: 120 ANALYSIS: Dennis Schroder might have thought of Chris Paul as a threat to his playing time and outcomes when CP3 came to OKC last season, but the reality was far from that. Playing off the pine, Schroder thrived leading a second Thunder unit he was tasked […]

DeMar DeRozan (SG/SF, SA) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 35 Overall CURRENT ADP: 53 ANALYSIS: The San Antonio Spurs missed the postseason for the first time since you were born last season, and we all dropped a collective tear. Okay, enough lamenting. DeMar DeRozan executed (obviously) his player option and will be a Spur at least to start the season […]

Ivica Zubac (C, LAC) - Fantasy Basketball Draft Values

BALLER MOVE: Target Around 110 Overall CURRENT ADP: 128 ANALYSIS: Ivica Zubac made efficiency his bread and butter last season. For an endangered species, as the pure-center is these days, Zubac was very good putting up 1.17 FP/min in his short playing time of just 18.4 mpg. Zubac, though, played in all 72 Clippers' games […]