Yahoo Fantasy Basketball Player Rankings: Must-Draft Sleepers After Pick 100

Uncover the best Yahoo Fantasy Basketball sleepers for 2025! RotoWire's Alex Barutha identifies undervalued players beyond pick 100 to dominate your draft and gain a winning edge.

August 24, 2025

Yahoo Fantasy Basketball Player Rankings: Must-Draft Sleepers After Pick 100

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Alex Barutha

August 24, 2025

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With 2025 Yahoo Fantasy Basketball officially open, I've scoured the depths of the most recent ADP data to find hidden gems and must-draft sleepers.

Here are the most undervalued players after Pick 100.

Top Sleeper Picks for 2025 Yahoo Fantasy Basketball

Matas Buzelis, Bulls

The easiest way for Buzelis to return on investment is just playing more minutes. There's no reason to think he shouldn't be the team's starting power forward. He's already better than every other forward on the roster combined. There's also a chance the team trades Nikola Vucevic at some point in the year, which is unlikely to yield a player with a higher usage rate than Vooch. That all points to Buzelis having a runway as the team's potential third option on offense and a quality rebounder and shot-blocker on defense.

Donovan Clingan, Trail Blazers

Clingan has to stay out of foul trouble. That was one of his two primary limiting factors -- the other being Deandre Ayton, who just got a golden parachute to Los Angeles. As a rookie, Clingan was already a top-rate rebounder and shot-blocker. If he manages no improvement and can just stay out of foul trouble for 27 MPG, he's probably a top-75 player. I'm completely willing to take him over someone like Rudy Gobert.

Onyeka Okongwu, Hawks

Things got complicated again for Okongwu after the Hawks dealt for Kristaps Porzingis. Still, it's hard to turn your nose up after pick 100 given that Okongwu ranked 77th per game in 8-cat across 27.9 MPG. I imagine that's his minutes floor this year. How much do you trust Porzingis to stay healthy? No brainer, especially for two-center leagues.

Jay Huff, Pacers

For a guy I assume was previously a lumberjack before last season, Huff is a good basketball player. Consider me intrigued in terms of Huff pulling off a Myles Turner impersonation as a rim-protecting, three-point shooting center. I believe coach Rick Carlisle will experiment a lot at center, but Huff might only need 25 MPG across the whole season for this to pay off.

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Kevin Porter, Bucks

The Bucks have just enough other options at point guard (Cole Anthony, Ryan Rollins) that this isn't a guaranteed home run. But I think that after Giannis Antetokounmpo, Porter is both the second-best scorer and passer on the team. It wouldn't shock me if he saw something like 32-34 minutes per game.

Naz Reid, Timberwolves

Reid is the epitome of a high-floor sleeper. He's guaranteed sixth-man minutes and can produce top-100 value in that role. If Julius Randle or Rudy Gobert get hurt, there's a starter's role available for Reid.

T.J. McConnell, Pacers

I worry about McConnell getting rested down the stretch since he's 33 years old and the Pacers could be bad, but if he plays true sixth-man minutes this season, there's a clear top-100 player there. He's been a mainstay in deep fantasy basketball leagues for a long time.

Brandin Podziemski, Warriors

The Jonathan-Kuminga-for-Malik-Monk swap rumors make me nervous. Still, with what we know right now, this is an easy sleeper pick for me. There are advanced metrics that like Podziemski to a degree that I would consider radioactive. How much you want to believe that is up to you, but we know that he's a stat-stuffer. We also know that the Warriors are old as hell. Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green are a combined 108 years old. When one or more of those guys are out, Podz is one of the only players who can really trust to scale up his game as a creator.

Kyle Filipowski, Jazz

I just wish there were fewer questions about Utah's frontcourt rotation. In terms of guys who just need to get minutes, it's Markkanen, Bailey, Kessler, Taylor Hendricks (remember him?) and Cody Williams. I'm not sure what they're doing with Jusuf Nurkic or Georges Niang, and frankly I feel bad for them both. Hendricks' pedigree is technically higher than Filipowski's and Kessler's, so if you want to take a flier on him, go right ahead. But Filipowski showed so much versatility last season that I think it will be difficult to keep him off the floor.

Zach Edey, Grizzlies

Edey is recovering from ankle surgery and could miss the first month or so of the season. Throw the man on your IR and reap the rewards later. Edey is in the Clingan-Zone where he's essentially a Tier 3 center if he stops fouling everyone. Desmond Bane's absence allows for more usage, and I don't trust Jaren Jackson to stay healthy. There's some offensive upside here too.

Ace Bailey, Jazz

My main argument here is just to look at Utah's depth chart and ask yourself who, besides Lauri Markkanen, is scoring 15 PPG on this team? If Bailey wants it, and he's ready, he'll have a neon green light. He also proved to be able to rebound and rack up defensive deflections in college. I'm not sure that can translate with Walker Kessler (and even Markkanen) around, but there's upside in Bailey after negative draft buzz.

Cam Whitmore, Wizards

I'm worried that Whitmore's player type has been Moneyballed out of the NBA, whereas he'd be some team's No. 1 option 15 years ago. Ironically, he might be better at defense and worse on offense than people think. Regardless, he's a young player on the Washington Wizards -- he will get his chances. The waiting game with CJ McCollum and Khris Middleton will undoubtedly be annoying, however.

Payton Pritchard, Celtics

Look, I'm worried about the Celtics. They seem desperate but unable to trade Anfernee Simons, and they own their pick during a year in which their best player is out and they cleared as much salary as possible. All signs point to a gap year, tanking to chase a high lottery pick for someone to pair with Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. But if you're asking me which of the team's primary remaining options I'm the least worried about, it's Pritchard. He's the youngest (though already somehow 27 years old) and probably won't be rested as much as Brown and Derrick White. Plus, the price (ADP>100) is right.

Jaden Ivey, Pistons

Before his season-ending broken leg, Ivey's improved three-point stroke was enough to bring people from raising one eyebrow to two eyebrows. I still think his flaws -- mediocre size, high turnover rate, sketchy shooting, bad defense -- are, well...you clearly see what I think. However, he's still only 23 and I think makes sense as Detroit's No. 2 option. Maybe the best argument for him is that Pistons need to figure out very quickly if he makes sense with Cade Cunningham or not.