2026-27 Fantasy Basketball: 8 players we can’t stop drafting

Best values, sleepers and busts are all important when entering your draft. Doing the legwork to prepare for your draft by analyzing mock drafts, stats, projections and preseason rotations are all necessary. But, sometimes, you just have to go get your guy.

That’s not to see there isn’t any logic or reason behind these selections, because there certainly is. These are the players that we find ourselves drafting most often, sometimes ahead of ADP to ensure they make it on our teams.

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In ADP order, here are eight of our favorite players to draft this season.

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Domantas Sabonis — C, Sacramento Kings

I’m really excited for the reincarnated version of the De’Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis two-man game, with Darius Acuff Jr. filling in for Fox. It won’t lead to as much success with a rookie point guard, but Sabonis is going to be heavily involved on offense. He’s still a premier rebounder and one of the best passing bigs in the league. The Kings should be more competitive this season, and Sabonis is going to be a big part of that. He should get back to being a fantasy star. – Noah Rubin

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Jalen Williams — F, Oklahoma City Thunder

Following an injury-riddled season, JDub is ready to bounce back. Last year was rough when he was available, but a healthy offseason should allow him to get off to a much better start and get back to stuffing the stat sheet. He wasn’t an impactful defender last year, but he should get back to being elite on that end, and he should shoot the ball much better than he did last year. During his last healthy season, he averaged 21.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.8 triples per game on efficient shooting splits. – NR

Darius Garland — G, LA Clippers

With the Kawhi Leonard fiasco finally over, Garland has emerged from the wreckage in LA as the current face of the franchise. With Brandon…

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