Just How Bad Were The 2024/25 NBA Rookies For Fantasy Basketball?

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

NBA Fantasy Basketball enthusiasts, get ready for a comprehensive review of the 2024-25 rookie class. Discover why the class, featuring top players like Alex Sarr and Steph Castle, fell short of expectations. Josh Lloyd breaks down the season's segments, revealing how rookies like Kel'el Ware and Donovan Clingan improved over time, challenging the "rookie wall" myth.

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0:00.0	The rookies were trash. We knew they were trash. Do they turn out to be trash? Yes. Sort of. Maybe. Let's review the 24-25 NBA rookie class Michael Bolton.
0:11.7	Thanks, Josh. It's Michael Bolton here. And it's time for another episode of the locked-on fantasy basketball podcast. Let's get to it. Let's get to it.
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1:22.4	We are here to talk about rookies.
1:24.2	And while that was marginally hyperbolic for me at the start of the show
1:27.6	talking about how these rookies are trash they were it was it was bad now of course everything
1:34.2	is nuanced are these good basketball players yes are there going to be numerous rotation players
1:41.7	out of this draft yes are there going to be any stars out of this draft?
1:46.1	Almost probably not.
1:47.8	But that is almost 100% in line with how we projected this class out.
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