Top 150 NBA Dynasty Rankings for Fantasy Basketball (Categories)

August 23, 2025

Zach Reifschneider's Top 150 fantasy basketball rankings for dynasty leagues. This is his first look at his rankings for the upcoming season and includes rookies from the 2025 NBA Draft.

As we inch closer and closer to the 2025-2026 NBA season, it’s time to start thinking ahead about your dynasty basketball team and where your players stand after another season.

Today, I’m excited to deliver my comprehensive dynasty basketball player rankings for category leagues here at RotoBaller.

In this article, I will cover my top 150 players of this week, along with discussing a few key players and notable names I’m paying attention to this offseason. I’ll also touch on a few players who could break into the top 100 at some point this season. 

Zach's Top 150 Dynasty Rankings For 2025-2026 Fantasy Basketball

Victor Wembanyama: The Undisputed 1.01

If you were lucky enough to secure Victor Wembanyama at any point in any dynasty league, congratulations! You have what will be the undisputed 1.01 for many years to come, should he stay healthy.

Wembanyama is a superstar and a fantasy cheat code already in his second year in the league, and we should expect this to remain the norm moving forward. Despite only playing 46 games last season, his averages of 24.3 points, 11 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.1 steals, 3.8 blocks, 3.1 3-pointers and 3.2 turnovers on 47.6% FG/35.2% 3PT/83.6% FT slashes got him to 3rd overall in per-game value after returning 6th overall value last season (per Basketball Monster).

It’s crazy to say it, but I will repeat it: expect nothing but ridiculous numbers moving forward.

How High is Too High for Cooper Flagg?

After some mixed feelings about the 2024 NBA Draft, 2025 came ready with a new, potentially generational prospect like Duke’s Cooper Flagg, who posted one of the best one-and-done seasons we’ve seen in a very long time.

Blake Griffin says Cooper Flagg is the “most complete player we’ve seen come into the NBA in recent memory.” 👀🔥

(via Post Moves) pic.twitter.com/Vu5OBDscnd

— Basketball Forever (@bballforever_) August 22, 2025

Flagg projects to be an immediate high-end fantasy contributor off the strength of his collegiate stats of 19.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.4 steals, 1.4 blocks, 1.4 3-pointers made, and 2.1 turnovers on 48.1% FG/38.5% 3PT/84% FT. Next to Anthony Davis, he should have a wide-open shot at near-elite production in his first season.

As you can see in my rankings, I already view him as the 6th best dynasty basketball player, just below Wembanyama, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic, and Cade Cunningham, and above Anthony Edwards, Jalen Williams, and Chet Holmgren. 

What to Do With Tyrese Haliburton and Jayson Tatum?

Just a few months ago, during the 2024-2025 playoffs, we saw two superstars, Tyrese Haliburton and Jayson Tatum, go down with Achilles tears. This is among the scariest injuries you can see in basketball today, with the potential to miss over a year in recovery and even longer to recover.

Before their respective injuries, I viewed Haliburton and Tatum as my 5th and 6th best assets in all of dynasty basketball. With these injuries, we need to reconsider things and the possibility that they may not be at their top levels we expected when we last saw them. Since then, I have dropped both to 13th and 15th, respectively. While I'm naturally a little bit worried about their recovery, I am willing to be patient in the hopes that both can return to form and do not have a high degree of concern about that.

Personally, I am trying to trade for both if managers are uneasy. However, in any league where I roster Haliburton or Tatum, I am holding tight, or only moving off of them if I can receive a top 20-25 asset at the minimum. 

LaMelo Ball: The Most Volatile Asset in Dynasty Basketball

What can I say about LaMelo Ball? For me, he is easily the most volatile asset in all of dynasty basketball, in large part due to his continued injuries that have made his collective missed time continue to grow. Ball’s only season among his five where he played over 52 games was in 2021-2022 in his 2nd year (wherein he became the youngest All-Star in NBA history).

Buy or Sell: When healthy, LaMelo Ball is a top-5 PG in the East. pic.twitter.com/pni1MH4lII

— SleeperHoops (@Sleeper_Hoops) August 4, 2025

With so many questions around his long-term health, avoiding more lower-body/ankle injuries, and Charlotte continuing to struggle to make it into the playoffs, this season is a very important one for Ball to remind managers who he is. Say what you will about Ball, but when he plays, he truly delivers a ridiculously good fantasy game with career numbers of 21 points, 6 rebounds, 7.4 assists, 1.5 steals, 0.3 blocks, 3.1 made 3s, and 3.3 turnovers on 42.1% FG/36.5% 3PT/83.7% FT.

What's the bottom line? We just have to hope he can stay healthy this year, but he continues to be a risky investment.

What Can We Expect from Kevin Durant on the Houston Rockets?

Kevin Durant is a perennially elite dynasty basketball player. We’ve known this for years now, and I believe we will continue to see that in another new environment in Houston.

Last season, Durant finished 10th in per-game value (per Basketball Monster), and I expect that to remain the same. Despite the growth of Houston’s young stars like Alperen Sengun and Amen Thompson, Durant is firmly their first offensive option.

I expect Durant to continue posting 25+ points per game for at least another few years and, as I mentioned, continue posting strong percentages, rebounds, assists, and defensive stats. He has consistently finished in the top 10 in his last 4 seasons (10th, 10th, 4th, 2nd), and I see no reason why he shouldn’t finish in the top 24 again if he stays healthy. Durant’s dynasty rank jumped a few places from my last update to 40th, from 44th. 

On The Bubble: Players Outside the Top 100 That Could Make The Leap

Derik Queen, PF/C - NOP

Derik Queen was one of my guys leading up to the 2025 NBA Draft. While I had my share of concerns about him as an NBA prospect, including his conditioning, his lack of defense, and questions about his fit as either a 4 or 5, the fantasy game looks sharp if the Pelicans can build a sound team around his problem areas. He is an undeniably good scorer and posts very strong counting stats, especially if he can keep improving as a passer and potentially extend his range if he’s more of a 4.

He ended up outside of my top 100 because I want to see what his role looks like early in New Orleans, and if he does have a larger role early on, how will he fare in the fantasy department? Once I have some early questions answered about his fit next to Zion Williamson and what the Pelicans ultimately intend to do in the roster construction department, I can make a clearer decision about whether he lands in my top 100 or not.

Cam Thomas, SG - BKN

It’s always hard to make a clear call on Cam Thomas. Anyone who’s been playing fantasy and dynasty basketball in the last few years understands Cam Thomas as a player: he’s a fiery scorer and shooter who can go toe-to-toe with the best scorers in the NBA, but his fantasy game is not very robust past that. Despite averaging 23 points per game in his past 2 seasons (91 GP), Thomas has respectively finished 123rd and 99th in 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 in per-game value, per Basketball Monster.

However, outside of his good scoring, 3-point volume, and free-throw percentage, there are not a lot of standout positives in Thomas’ fantasy game. He’s started to improve slightly as a passer on a statistical basis (up to 3.8 APG in 2024-2025, despite only playing 25 games), but he does not contribute a lot in other areas, including rebounds, defensive stats, FG%, and turnovers.

With the addition of multiple playmakers (Egor Demin, Nolan Traore), there is concern Thomas may just remain a good scorer without a ton more… if he sticks around in Brooklyn on a new contract, that is.

Nikola Topic, PG/SG - OKC

Once touted as a potential top 5 player in the 2024 NBA Draft, Nikola Topic suffered an ACL tear that would ultimately knock him out for the entire 2024-2025 season and was selected by the Oklahoma City Thunder. Mind you, the Thunder won a championship without him, and this will be his first year with the squad in a reserve role.

Topic is still very young and largely unproven, but considering what we saw out of him overseas and in Summer League with his slick passing touch and driving ability, I expect to see him pick up a role early. Topic will need time to grow, but if he shows some steady growth in his technical rookie season this year, it would be very easy to see him end up in the top 100.

Andrew Nembhard, PG/SG - IND

Nembhard stepped up in a big way during the 2024-2025 NBA playoffs and was one of Indiana’s top contributors after playing a key role all season. Now, in the wake of Tyrese Haliburton’s Achilles tear will keep him out for the entire 2025-2026 season, Nembhard will have the tall order of playing a lead point guard role.

Now, there is no way Nembhard can match the output of a superstar like Haliburton, but he could provide enough positive value this year to crack the top 100. In 43 career games with Haliburton out, Nembhard posted 13 points, 2.6 rebounds, 6.8 assists, 0.9 steals, 0.1 blocks, 1.2 3-pointers made, and 2.5 turnovers while shooting 42.7% FG/31.3% 3PT/75.9% FT. I am interested to see if these numbers will increase in a full 82-game setting. 

Bilal Coulibaly, SG/SF - WAS

For those who have followed my work in recent years, I have been a big Bilal Coulibaly advocate and heavily bought into his upside. I have since slid a little, but remain in on him, hopefully unlocking some of that long-term upside. Coulibaly has flashed a ton of upside in his fantasy game as a well-rounded wing with a solid playmaking touch, with 3.4 assists per game this past season. This past season, his averages of 12 points, 5 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.3 steals, 0.7 blocks, and 2.1 turnovers on 42.1% FG/28.1% 3PT/74.6% FT slashes were good for 187th overall in per-game value (per Basketball Monster).

If he can hit more threes at closer to a league-average clip and improve his volume (1.1 makes per game), his fantasy game and spot in Washington’s young hierarchy can be more solidified. This could ultimately establish him more as a firm starter than a higher-end role player when Washington improves. 

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