2024-25 Fantasy Basketball Rankings: Shooting guard draft tiers

These two are among the best fantasy basketball shooting guards you can select in drafts. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)

The 2024-25 NBA season is fast approaching, so in conjunction with my latest points and category rankings dropping, let’s dig into my position-by-position tiers. I’ve covered the point guards, so today is about the shooting guards.

NOTE: Only some players will have analysis when listed in the tiers below. Players with multi-position eligibility will only appear in the positional tier where they played the most minutes last season or are projected to play this season.

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The shooting guard position is diverse, with elite players like Donovan Mitchell and Anthony Edwards leading the pack. Tiers 3-8 feature a mix of risk-reward players, sleepers, veterans and fringe starters, each with unique strengths and potential fantasy value. While it’s not a position you have to commit to in the early rounds (especially for points leagues), just be mindful that the deeper you go into the drafts, there are sizable dropoffs in efficiency and usage.

Tier 1: The elite SGs

1. Donovan Mitchell, Cleveland Cavaliers

2. Anthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves

3. Devin Booker, Phoenix Suns

4. Kyrie Irving, Dallas Mavericks

Donovan Mitchell provided first-round value in points and category formats last year. The biggest driver in his rise up the ranks was due to averaging 1.8 steals per game. Hopefully, the injuries that caused him to miss 27 games are behind him.

Few players are equipped to become the face of the league like Anthony Edwards. I made the case for him being a first-round pick and while it may not come to fruition this season, he’s indeed worth an early-to-mid second-round pick when he hasn’t reached his ceiling yet.

I threw Devin Booker (and Bradley Beal a bit later) into the SG tiers because they’ll fluidly play a mix of PG, SG and SF this season. Either way, the Suns bringing in Tyus Jones to run point will suppress Devin Booker’s potential assists. However, he’ll still produce strong efficiency numbers and is among the top scorers in…

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Publish date : 2024-09-17 16:02:52

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