Top NBA Rookies To Consider For Your Fantasy Basketball Draft

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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NBA Fantasy Basketball rookies for the 2025-26 season! Josh Lloyd, host of Locked On Fantasy Basketball, breaks down the incoming class and their impact in redraft leagues. Which rookies are worth drafting early, who’s just a late-round flyer, and which ones might struggle for minutes?

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0:00.0	Life is meaningless. It's pointless. What are we even doing?
0:06.0	But there are rookies to talk about in fantasy basketball. Michael Bolton.
0:10.0	Thanks Josh. It's Michael Bolton here and it's time for another episode of the locked-on fantasy basketball podcast.
0:18.0	Let's get to it. Let's get to it. Indeed.
0:22.7	You are Locked on Fantasy, your daily NBA Fantasy podcast, part of the Locked On
0:29.0	Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:34.4	Hello and welcome to the Locked on Fantasy Basketball podcast, brought to you by Basketball Monster.
0:40.0	And while there was a study that shows that women find it a turnoff if their partner listens to the Joe Rogan podcast, we didn't need a study to know that the same thing applies to this show.
0:50.4	I'm also the lead fantasy analyst at basketballmonster.com, and today's episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the GameTime app, create an account and use the code Lockdown MBA for $20 off your first purchase. Thank you also for making Lockdown Fantasy Basketball your first listen every day. We are free and we are available on all platforms, which is great because if you need some platforms, then we're often ready to go because I got them.
1:13.3	And I'd like to take your thumbs as well.
1:15.2	We're talking rookies.
1:16.1	We are, of course we are.
1:17.5	Why wouldn't we be?
1:18.4	Because that's what we do at this time of year.
1:19.9	Just have a look at the young guys coming in and just pay attention to, and again, re-center your thoughts, guess and reiterate the stats the history the value of
1:32.4	these players now last season's draft class and I know that people always say oh people
1:37.3	always say that it's great or it's bad and they always get it wrong they very rarely do get
1:42.8	it wrong last season's draft was a bad draft.
1:47.0	The production from the rookies was bad. And yeah, there are solid rotation players in that
1:52.5	draft. That is the case in nearly every draft. There is no actually good players yet, and I don't
1:59.8	think there will be any star level players.
2:02.4	This draft, I believe, was quite strong, and there is some quite high-level star-level guys,
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