Last Updated on August 14, 2025 12:01 pm by Mike Passador | Published: August 14, 2025

It’s August, which means it’s that time again. Welcome to the 2025-26 SportsEthos NBA Draft Guide!

We’re thrilled to have you in the fold for another year of fantasy basketball. There’s plenty of stuff cooking and you can expect all kinds of tools, articles and rundowns to be added to the Draft Guide as we go along, with all the classics like Sleepers and Busts, reader mock drafts and of course, our rankings and strategy guides. Our team is itching for hoops again and this time we’ve got even more from industry legends Rick Kamla and Steve Alexander, too.

If you’re back again (after winning some leagues last year), welcome back! If you’re new, welcome in! As always, our goal is to give you all the top insight for the fantasy season so this Draft Guide and our in-season premium membership pay for themselves. Check out the menu on the left-hand side of your page to see all that there is to offer, and know that we’ll be adding pieces for each category as time goes on. What you see today will be different from what you see as the days roll on, so click around everywhere!

We’ll have all kinds of goodies for your perusal regardless of your experience level. For the beginners, we have a few things just for you to help introduce the game and show you how to navigate the season. The team is working on introductory articles and strategy guides to help you tackle all the basic league formats, from points to roto to dynasty to best ball. Naturally, we’ll have rankings for each league type as well, capped off by the Bruski 150, which is why you’re all here in the first place.

As usual, we’ll start out reviewing last year before we make sense of a busy offseason. Transparency is important so we always take the time to look back and see where we might’ve been off in our analysis; that’s how we get better every year. Each and every team has their own Season Wrap, where we recap every player’s fantasy performance. We take a look back at last year’s Sleepers and Busts and also go for a deep dive to see what was behind some of fantasy’s most disappointing and successful efforts.

As for what’s on the horizon, you can check out our projections and ADP Tracker to make sure everything adds up. Later on in the offseason we’ll start doing weekly ADP Reports so you can quickly find out what’s moving and shaking in draft rooms. We’ve got schedule tools and analysis to help you head-to-head managers navigate the mine field. It’ll be like entering the matrix without the unwieldy coats.

We’ll be going in depth with dozens of articles too. Whether that’s focusing on potential breakouts, specific category specialists, new faces in new places, statistical standouts or young players on the rise, we’re going to break out the microscope to see what’s in store. Please let us know if you have something you’d like to see covered that isn’t on the menu, because we’re always down to find some answers for subscribers.

We’re going to have a whole separate section for dynasty, assembled by the incomparable Mark Camero. Rankings, offseason takes, a closer look at first-round picks, and a whole lot more.

And last but not least (well, not last — keep your eyes peeled in early September), we’re going to have our team pages and player profiles. It’s an industry-leading endeavor, as we recap last season, preview this season, chronicle injury history and deliver a short but sweet fantasy outlook for every single player in the NBA. Every single player! All of them. If they’re under contract, we’ve got them. That means we’re going to have profiles for over 500 players. Frankly, we end up with more profiles than players. When the journey starts we’ll write up everyone which means profiles for guys who end up getting cut in camp… but we’re ready if they ever latch on again.

As mentioned above, we’ll also be doing all kinds of mock drafts. Mix it up with the team and read our recaps as we all prepare for the main event. The drafts themselves are also a ton of fun — who doesn’t love drafting — and you get to chat it up with our experts while it’s running.

So welcome to the 2025-26 Draft Guide. It’s a labor of love, but it’s also going to help all of us win. Enjoy the ride.

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Mike graduated from Boston University’s Dual Degree Program with a BA in Economics and a BS in Business with Concentrations in Marketing and Operations Management. He is a faithful supporter of Toronto sports and the Detroit Lions and is always ready to be let down. Tweet to him @Mike_Pandador, but if you badmouth Jose Calderon you might get blocked.

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