2024-25 Fantasy Basketball: 3 forwards to avoid in drafts at their current ADP

Brandon Ingram doesn’t have the best fantasy basketball context around him this season. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Picking the right players and knowing when to dodge the landmines are critical factors in forming a competitive fantasy basketball team. Yesterday, we covered the guards facing competition or injury concerns; today, we’ll zero in on three forwards to fade in fantasy basketball.

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Before we jump in, it’s worth noting that I was very close to including Kawhi Leonard on the list. However, with the news that he’s trending up for the season opener, I’m back feeling how I felt prior — his load management is baked into his ADP and I wouldn’t draft him unless he fell to a late fourth-round pick.

Brandon Ingram – SG/SF/PF, Sacramento Kings

Ingram is in an interesting spot heading into the 2024-2025 season. He’s eligible for a max contract extension, but the Pelicans don’t want to pay him the reported $200 million deal he’s looking for. Opposing teams haven’t jumped at the opportunity to trade for him either. So, from a fantasy perspective, there’s not much to look forward to as he plays out the final year of his deal.

BI’s 26.8 usage rate was the lowest of his four seasons with the Pelicans. His lack of availability is also a concerning trend, failing to play more than 65 games in a season since his rookie campaign. Then there’s the emergence of Trey Murphy III and Herb Jones, two contributors to Ingram’s downturn in minutes to 32.9 per game last season. Insert Dejounte Murray into the equation, and Ingram’s 5.7 assists per game with a 26% assist rate will surely go down. He could be motivated to get his next bag, but there are too many cooks in this kitchen to select him confidently in the late fifth or early sixth round, as his ADP suggests.

Keegan Murray – SF/PF, Sacramento Kings

I’m high on Murray’s talent; fading him is more about the situation and DeMar DeRozan’s arrival stunting Murray’s growth offensively. He was the Kings’ fourth-leading scorer at 15.2 ppg, improving in seven categories from his rookie season. Murray excels from…

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Publish date : 2024-10-01 15:30:46

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