Washington Wizards 2025-26 Fantasy Basketball Preview | Alex Sarr Breakout Watch

Washington Wizards 2025-26 Fantasy Basketball Preview | Alex Sarr Breakout Watch

And now we’re here, the final episode of the team previews for fantasy basketball for the 2526 season. The Washington Wizards, Michael Bolton. Thanks, Josh. It’s Michael Bolton here and it’s time for another episode of the Locked On Fantasy Basketball Podcast. Let’s get to it. Let’s get to it. Indeed. You are Locked on Fantasy, your daily NBA fantasy podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Hello and welcome to the Locked On Fantasy Basketball Podcast, brought to you by Basketball Monster. My name is Josh Lloyd and my wife knocked Boots with a Space Stud. I’m also the lead fantasy analyst at Basketball Monster and today’s episode is brought to you by Fanel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5 and get $300 in bonus bets if you win to use across the app. Head to fangel.com to get started. Thank you also for making Lockdown Fantasy Basketball your first listen every day. We are free. We are available on all platforms. So, we’re here. We are at the end of the team preview series of shows. All 29 NBA teams covered. Undervalued, overvalued players. So, this is the 29th team. Let’s get into talking about the Washington Wizards, which is one of the most annoying teams to figure out because it’s going to be maybe a tale of two seasons, maybe a tale of like four seasons. It’s going to be very, very interesting. Even trying to predict their starting lineup, I think, is going to be something that changes basically every couple of games. So, when I show my projected starting group there, don’t be like too married to it cuz I don’t know how accurate this is going to be. Bob Carrington, CJ McCullum, Chris Middleton, Bill Al Kouli who will not be there opening night and Alex Sar. So I tell you now that CJ McCullum is 100% starting. Alex is 100% starting. The rest I’ve got no idea because well Bill is not going to be there to begin the season, right? That’s so that’s okay. So someone is going to step in there. Is it Keshan George? It probably is. Is it Cam Whitmore? Maybe. What do you do when you have a situation where Middleton, McCullum, uh, Bilal, Sara all healthy? Like, is that how we go? Is Bub the other starter? Is George the other starter? Where does Trey Johnson fit? Like, is can Bill B actually play up at the four? Or do you need George in there? There are no fours on this team. No fours. Everybody’s a one, two, or a three. Yeah, Keshan can play up a little bit and Whitmore can play up a little bit, but there’s no one who’s a four. There’s no real center depth either. So my rotation guys are going to be Whitmore Johnson, George Marvin Bagley the third as the backup center and probably Cory Kiss, but maybe not. Maybe it’s AJ Johnson as that other guy. There are too many players and that is going to be the common theme about this squad. They’re not good. They’re definitely not good, but they’ve got too many guys for us to feel comfortable about relying on these players. Maybe Middleton is a bench guy and they go with Carrington, McCullum, Bill, George, and S. But where does Johnson fit? Where does the other Johnson fit at Giggity? AJ Johnson, they traded for Dylan Jones. There’s Justin Champany. They drafted Will Riley in the first round. Where the hell does he play? So, we are going to be in situations where we go, “Oh, it’s might be time for this guy to break out and this guy to break out.” I think all mate Brian Keefe, he’s just going to be chopping and changing blocks. And then we’re going to get to situations where CJ McCullum gets hurt or Chris Middleton doesn’t play or they’re bought out or they’re traded and the whole rotation is turned tits up there as well. So when you’re drafting a lot of these Wizards guys, you’re going to be have to be very cautious, especially the backend players because there’s probably going to be no production immediately. Like some of these guys like Whitmore and Johnson and George and even Bilal will probably bub. They’re going to be like the 180th best player for a period of time and then it jumps up and then it jumps back down. there’s going to be Middleton’s in and out and McCullum’s in and out. That is going to be a problem and we we just don’t know. We have an an idea an expectation how they can handle this stuff like with the veterans and we’re pretty sure we saw it last season after they traded for Middleton and Marcus Smart that those guys just you play like a couple of games after the all-star break and they were in and out and Middleton would play his 25 26 minutes as McCullum get the same treatment. Do they start doing this early? I that that is again so you’ll get some games I think where Whitwell plays 22 minutes and somebody who plays 28 and Bub will have some games at 25 usage and some at 16 usage depending on CJ’s presence cuz CJ is very clearly their best player right that doesn’t get you anywhere in the NBA but he’s their best player so he’s going to play he’s respected around the league obviously Middleton was very good for this team last season but his body can’t handle a bunch of stuff so what does he play 40 games and when do those games come do they just spread him all throughout the season for a steadying presence, meaning other guys are back and forth. We saw them do this with Bub Carrington last season. Carrington would start, Brogden would come back, Carrington would go to the bench. Kzman would go out, George would start, Kzen would come back, George would go to the bench. You saw no consistency with these guys. And it could be just exactly the same thing again. Like, who is the priority on the wing for this team? Is it Cam Whitmore? is it after they traded for him like from Houston and part of the reason that he engineered to go to Washington is his agent was like he needs an opportunity to play. So I really don’t think that he’s coming here and they’re playing him 18 minutes. I like Whitmore as a fantasy pick this season, but also like again I I don’t know. He’s going to have pretty big usage. He’s a good steals guy. He’s a good scorer. He’ll hit threes. He struggles in nearly every other area. But is it him? Is it AJ Johnson? Is it Bill Kulibi? Is Trey Johnson considered a wingies? Is it two? Like where does Kesha and George fit into that mix? Like who who is the priority or is like a rotating sort of priority? And that’s what I mean by like is it just going to be like chunks? Because is it just going to be well we players for a certain chunk of time? is 20 games where Middleton and McCullum play majority of games and then we get into a stage where they start playing twothirds of games and then this is the Bill chunk and this is the Whitmore chunk and this is the George opportunity. Is it all merit based or is it opportunity based? Is it we need to just rotate things through to see what we’re doing and that’s going to be impossible for us to sort of figure out from a fantasy point of view. Like we can like guys as much as we do. We can like what Keshan George does. We can like Cam Whitmore’s potential. We can like Bilal’s defensive ability even if his offense stinks. We can like Bub’s theory like but they can’t all break out. Will one of them get the nod as the guy or will it be a back and forward here you are you’re in you’re out sort of situation and we sort of get that already to start the year with Bill all out and then we got to try and figure out how that works when how much Middleton plays. It’s a disaster, right? It’s not good. Alexar’s shot profile is something we need to watch because he said all the right things. The word out of Wizards practice is that he is taking more of his shots close to the basket because we know that he is a seven foot tall big man as a rookie who shot under 40% from the field and which basically never has happened. He was 31% on threes which is not bad. I think Sar is going to be a pretty solid solid opportunity guy to be a big breakout player cuz a I don’t believe he plays only 27 minutes. But if he does start to take shots closer to the basket instead of your mid-range shots, instead of as many threes, then that field goal percentage should at least hit 45, I hope. God, if it doesn’t hit 45 in year two, which is again, it’s a sizable leap, but he needs to be at that number. His blocks already pretty good. Three-point volume solid, scoring, usage, all pretty good. Assists actually impressive for what he is as a player. But that efficiency is what is scaring people off. I know that is the case. What do I have him projected as field goal wers? Like I’ve only got him at like 44%. All right, which is not a high jump. His two-point numbers last season, he hit 45% on his twos. Like that is just a bad number for a big man. You need to be hitting 50 plus surely. So we need to see if that is actually something that that happens because it is important to his value. And and I think that you know Sar is probably going around the right spot in most drafts at the moment. We’re talking about a guy that you can pick in that 70s 80s range, but it does require that change in mentality. The other thing that can impact this team is because they are bad and because there’s so many young guys, are they just going to go hard on their pace? They were a 103 pace team last season, but as the season wore on, that dropped to 101. So, will it go back to 103? Will they maintain 103? Will they go harder, faster? Will they be able to do like that impact stuff? I think the biggest pace team is going to be the Bulls this season. I think the other team to watch for pace-wise is going to be the Celtics, who were very slow last season, but from what I’m gathering, you might get six extra possessions a game from Boston this season. And Washington, I think, is going to be one of the faster teams as well. But we’ll see. They slowed it down. Will they slow it down even further? Will that enable S to take better shots? Is that even a factor at all? It might not be, but they are all things we need to watch. Today’s episode, it is brought to you by Price Picks. 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That is the code locked on NBA for $50 in lineups after your first $5 lineup. Price fix. It’s good to be right. Right. Right with an R. Right. All right. Let’s um let’s talk Washington Wizards here. Let’s get into some guys that I think are undervalued for fantasy basketball for this upcoming season. And it is, like I said, it’s a pretty tough one to figure out given the nature of this squad and where their rotations are likely going to sit. Now, I do think that at the moment, Alex Sar has some really significant value, especially in points leagues. I I think he does have category leagues. There are deterrence in his category leagues, especially that that horrific field goal percentage, which I do think improves, but I’m not sure it’s enough. But I think he can be a top 50 Yahoo points league guy. I think he can be a top 60 ESPN points league guy. And at the moment, he’s not ranked there. His ADP is 99 on ESPN. His Yahoo ranks at 105. His ADP is 81. I think there’s a lot of value in that. Now, taking him in category leagues at 81 is totally reasonable. It’s but it’s about bang on. his ESPN category league rank at 43 is very clearly too high. Like we do not want to do that. That that doesn’t make sense to be selecting someone like Alex Sar at number 43. We shouldn’t be doing that. But you that takes that value away. But then you look at his ADP where it’s at 99 and you go, “All right, well, I’ll take him there.” But which one of those is your draft going to go by? How are you going to get that sort of value? Cuz obviously that’s like a big discrepancy. So at the moment where the rankings and ADPs and all that sit I think that Sar is a pretty clear value player for points leagues categories it is going to depend. I also do think that Cam Whitmore is an undervalued guy across a few different formats. Yahoo and fan tracks for category leagues where on Yahoo he’s currently ranked at 164. His ADP on fan tracks is 146. His Yahoo points value. I think that Whitmore can be around the top 100 even in a bench roll for points leagues and maybe go even higher after that. Um in category leagues I think he can be around that 110 120 mark in that pseudo starter/bench roll. It will maybe be elevated early. Now if we see early on with Bill not there and Whitmore’s playing 23 minutes then you could almost assuredly cut bait. But if he hits 28 in those games and he starts playing a big role, then we have to see what they do with Georgia and with Bell and try to fit all these guys in and how Middleton rolls and all this sort of stuff. But he’s a nice spec speculative player at the moment, Cam Whitmore, to see what happens. Now, I will say this, I don’t particularly like Bilal Kulibi for this upcoming season. I’m not a I’m not a big Bilal guy. Yes, he showed some flashes last season which was on the back of 95% finishing at the rim and that disappeared and his shooting was horrific. He is a good steals and blocks and assists guy out of position, but he’s got a thumb injury. There was some troubling comments from the the coaching staff about, yeah, we gave a lot to Bill. Let’s see what others can do. So, I don’t know what that means, but I still think that there is some value here in Bill. Like, he’s ranked outside the top 150 on ESPN points. Yahoo’s got him at 156 as well. So, while I don’t have him significantly above that, I think that those ideas of that ranking positioning him as not, you know, not necessarily a draftable guy is probably wrong. Now, the thumb injury is concerning. He’s going to miss some time to begin the season, but I do think there is a little bit of value in Bilal, even though you have to be very cautious with it. And it could very clearly, very easily like not work out. There there are pretty obvious ways that that doesn’t work out for Kulibi um just through minutes and all that sort of stuff. In terms of overvalued guys, there’s only one name who really stands out to me, and that is Christian James McCullum. Now, I don’t think that it is a bad spot for McCullum. I I I think that he is useful in certain areas or useful for certain sort of um situations because we can look at CJ where he currently sits. He’s got an ADP of 101. He’s got that’s on Yahoo. His ESPN rank is where the trouble comes in and that’s where I really don’t like him. He sits at 79. Now I I think that CJ could be like 85th per game this season. I worry about how many minutes they do give him. I worry about how many games he does play and of course like I said he is their best player but Trey Johnson, Bob Carrington, Bill Kulibly Khan George Cam Whitmore not even including AJ Johnson like where does where do they touch it? Last season he was 104th for category league 69th for points leagues and look at points leagues he’s got a rank of 106 on Yahoo. I think he’s easily a top 90 guy per game. Easily. Maybe even higher. But they will not be pushed into playing him 35 minutes a night, which I believe he played 33 last season. So yeah, he might stick there. Does he stay at 26 usage? Does he go to 31 minutes? There are too many concerns for me to be looking at CJ inside the top 80. Even though for most spots, you don’t need to do that. It’s just the the the issues with this squad and their incentives do not lead to CJ being this great value unless you’re going outside the top 100 for him, which you might be. But we all know with this team, it is likely that he’s not on the squad or he’s fake injured when you’re ramping up for your head-to-head points or head-to-head category league playoffs and he’s not there. Which if you took him to pick a 100, who cares? If you said, “Well, I think he’s gonna be awesome and have these big numbers and I’ll take him at 70.” Well, you do care about that because that’s your sixth pick. That’s your sixth best player in a standard league. And when you could have taken somebody else there with less doubt about availability, I think that makes more sense to be doing at at that at that stage in a draft. Let’s take a look now at some other guys. Let’s take a look at some players who you know how I reference these guys who might be able to be top 50 players this season and the name that you know comes up as a star and I had to really struggle to get him here is Alexar and realistically to me with my with my projections on star it has him as a top 50 points league option per game but that’s it like not for categories not in ESPN points he’s on the border but in a points league I can get S to be a top 50 guy it is like I said going to require the shooting. It’s going to require Alex playing more minutes. I’ve got him up to 31 minutes a game. What you will also notice with this team is that they have like I’ll I’ll do the names again. Bob Carrington, CJ McCullum, Chris Middleton, Billard Kulibi, Keshan George, Cam Whitmore, Trey Johnson, Malachi Brham, AJ Johnson. They’re all ones, twos, and threes. Who are their centers? Marvin Baggley. Uh, old mate Anthony Gil. There’s no competition for Alexar. There’s nobody there. Tristan Vchevich, who I like, but they didn’t like load up on bigs. They didn’t bring in bigs. They didn’t trade for bigs. They didn’t draft bigs. It’s just it’s s who is getting the minutes. There is no Valenunis. It’s S. So when we talk about who’s got the star upside, who is the guy that they lean into more, it it’s surely it’s him. Maybe it’s not, but if you look at the way the roster is set up, it has to be him just from a who else is getting the minutes versus if you want to take a pick on Whitmore, George, whatever, I can throw a million different options there just in terms of certainty levels of who plays and who doesn’t play. And that should at least give you maybe not a super level of confidence in it. Oh, as my as my voice croaks, it shouldn’t give you a super level of confidence in that, but what it what it does do is at least the floor feels better. Like in terms of if you go through your head and try and create decision trees or pathways of ways things can go right or wrong, at least with this, you go, “Well, Sus doesn’t shoot well.” But with the other positions you go, well Bub doesn’t shoot well, so Trey takes over or CJ moves to the point and then they try AJ Johnson again and then Will Riley moves into the starting lineup and then they push Ken Whitmore down and Bill becomes a point forward and Keshan George plays at the three improves his ball handling. You go, what am I doing here? Like okay like with Alexar it’s like he maybe the shots don’t go in like that. That’s a lot of how I like to look at in terms of evaluating risk and doing projections. to go. Who else is getting minutes? Like I think he has to get three to four extra minutes plus natural improvement plus better shot profile should enable Sar I think to be in this area or at the very least at the very least I hope it gets into that area. We’ll come back and talk breakouts, injuries, new arrivals and wrap up this team. Today’s episode though it is brought to you by Quo. It is one of the tools that makes a huge difference for business owners. It’s quote, formerly known as Open Phone. It’s the same great business phone system that you’ve heard me talk about for ages, just with a new and harder to pronounce name. And here’s why it matters. Every mis call is money left on the table. With every customer conversation, it counts. And if you’re not there to get it, you need a phone system that keeps you connected 24/7. Quo is the number one business phone system that streamlines commun customer communications working right through an app on your phone or on your computer. 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I worry about Trey Johnson’s overall fantasy profile because we’ll see how it goes. But like the numbers coming out of college out of the top picks were probably the worst for a fantasy translation because outside of scoring there wasn’t a lot else. Wasn’t a rebounds or assists or a steals guy and the efficiency was excellent obviously but we needed a little bit of more somewhere else. Now that can come. Maybe he does develop passing skills. Maybe his usage and efficiency becomes so overwhelmingly good that he overcomes that. As a rookie guard though, that’s probably unlikely. So, I I don’t really see Trey Johnson as a 12 team league or 14 team league option this season. It just doesn’t really make sense to me how that would be the case given again how many different players are on this team needing minutes. Like, I’m not sure he’s a top 200 guy this season. Honestly, if you’re in deeper stashable formats, I’m just going to call them the stashies, drafting stashes, best balls, roto leagues, larger benches, games caps, and weekly leagues. All of those formats we’ll call the stashies cuz that means you don’t have to use every roster spot every day. If you’re in stashies, Johnson’s fine. I think he will have a run probably March, April where you are looking at him. Look at the way that we viewed Steph Castle last season. Putrid all season last two months players were out lot of usage did more was usable. And I think that’ll be similar to Johnson except does he even play as many minutes as Castle did early on? Maybe not, but later in the season he might. But it’s got to be a stashy type format to be able to take advantage of that. Cam Whitmore comes over for the low cost of a couple of second round picks. We’ve detailed Cam a lot. I don’t mind drafting him with a flyer pick in a 12 team league. In a 10amer, it gets a little bit more iffy. But in a 10-teamer, also when you’re taking flyer picks, your waiver wire is so fertile. It’s so abundant that if Whitmore doesn’t work out, you drop him and you’re going to find, you know, five, six, seven, maybe top 100 upside guys just sitting there. So maybe the idea that in a top in a 10 team league that you don’t want to go like as aggressive on that is maybe the wrong way to do it. Go more aggressive. You think Whitmore can have top 70 value, do it because if it doesn’t work out, your waiverwire has a lot more stuff blooming there. Dylan Jones comes across from the Thunder. I actually think he’s bad. Um I think he’s one of those guys though that if he gets minutes, we will like the fantasy appeal. A points, rebounds, assists, power forward sort of a player who I worry about his shooting and he needs the ball a lot. A lot of usage means he will be bad most of the time. But this is also a bad team. And we saw AJ Johnson who was also actually I think he’s a way better player than Dylan Jones, but AJ Johnson had was terrible in Milwaukee. He looked all right in Washington, but he had the ball. And I think we could get like a couple of moments for Dylan Jones to do that. Speaking of bad, Will Riley to me was probably the worst player drafted in the draft, at least in the first round. I hated his college profile. I don’t know what he is. He’s like a 6’9 shooting guard who doesn’t defend or doesn’t shoot well, doesn’t really pass well. I I don’t know what he is. And now we have to try and figure where he fits into this rotation. It is almost impossible, and that’s that is harsh, but I’ve said this all through the draft process, for someone to have as low of a steel percentage as Will Riley did and be a successful NBA player, not a successful defender, a successful NBA player. It was unbelievably low. So maybe he proves that rule wrong. He might. But pair that with the fact that I don’t know what else he does and the shooting is bad from college at Illinois that I don’t know who he is. I don’t know what he is as a player. to me he is I’m going to need to see a lot to be moved off those ideas that he is good but he’s there another name to throw into that mix at the two and the three or maybe at the four they also for some reason traded for Malachi Brham as part of the Calinic deal who they got in the C mullum deal now Brham also is bad he has had a couple of little games for the Spurs that were fine but overall he is bad and where on earth did he play ace Baileyy’s former agent son Share Cooper joins his team who actually liked Cooper quite a as a draft prospect and he has been bad. Um, he’s a pretty good passer, but he’s a two-way guy. Like, when does he play? He’s had two years around the NBA system now and I’m not really sure that he’s good enough. And then Jir Watkins is their other two-way player, but as we know, the other two way is Vevich, by the way, who’s going to get run later in the season probably. But the fact that they bring Bagley back to be the backup center and not convert Vchevich is frustrating. So, I think Tristan is pretty good. I don’t think Watkins is, but like these are all just names that they’ve brought in here that we need to be aware of. Who are the breakout candidates? I’m never going to put a rookie on this list, and I’ve talked about a lot of these guys already like Alex Sar and Cam Whitmore, but I haven’t spoken about Bubbly Carrington because he he is a breakout possibility. Now, when I put these breakouts up, I don’t necessarily do it because I think they’re going to break out. I’m just putting up the names that we have to consider might be breakouts. Now, Carrington last season would start and he would go to the bench and Brogden would come back and then he’d start again and then the law would be all over the place and overall his numbers were bad. Really bad steals and block numbers. Really bad. And that was a case from him in college. Bad shooting. Now that will improve. I’m very certain that those shooting numbers will improve. He played all 82 games. That’s great. He played 30 minutes as a rookie. Really good. But didn’t crack the top 200. Didn’t crack the top 175 in Yahoo 6. He should do that this season. I’m pretty confident that he’s going to be around 150th in points leagues and maybe 180th in category leagues, but I’m not having immense confidence in him. A because there’s a lack of steals and blocks. A B because there’s a percentage and shooting issue. Uh there’s a volume issue. He was 16 usage last season and I just don’t know exactly like will he even play more than 30 minutes? Cuz we could look at it and go, well, he’ll get a big bump in minutes, but will he? I don’t know that he will. He might, but I’m not convinced that he will. Minutes might rise. Usage might rise, shooting might rise. I’m not convinced the defense does. And what about passing? Can that jump up? Well, Jordan Pool isn’t there, so people do have to take shots, but realistically, it can just be a CJ for pool straight swap. So, I’m not 100% on the Bub is 100, you definitely breaking out and the fantasy profile at the moment is is not quite there. I would love for Keshan George to be able to break out. Now, he’s one of these ones that honestly, like, you look at what he did in college. It makes no sense for what he’s done in the NBA. None of it makes sense. He didn’t do any of these things with his defense in college. He averaged seven blocks in 27 minutes with a steal. Now, he also was a good shooter in college and wasn’t out of the NBA with 37 from the field and 32 from three. I do believe he could be one of the biggest three-point percentage rises this season. I don’t know that I’m going to bank on it, but he could be. He played 27 minutes tonight, but as we’ve detailed, are the minutes available to get to 30? Because you’ll have Bil All and Middleton. You’ll have Whitmore. Does George get the nod over these guys? Does he start in place of Bil? Does he get to 30 minutes? Does he get more than 16 usage? Does the shooting move up to close to league average? He couldn’t even hit his free throws at a good rate. I do believe he’s a good shooter. I believe he is a draftable 12 team league player in this breakout mold. But again, it’s a later round pick that we just sort of don’t know exactly how it’s going to work and trying to figure out Whitmore, Middleton, Bill, Keshan, and Bub Carrington who can all draft in those last two to three rounds, but it’s feels like it’s going to be a lot of back and forward in terms of the playing time and the opportunities that are given to these guys. The injuries here, Sarah hurt his calf at Euro Basket. It sounds like he’ll be okay for opening night. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is somewhat limited early on in terms of just yeah as they work him back. I think he’s doing five on fives now. So 2 weeks or 10 days or whatever it is. How long is it before the season starts? It’s uh 12 days before the season starts. So look might be marginally limited. Middleton’s got a lot of ankle, calf, wrist, knee problems. We know he’s probably going to sit all back to backs. Now the thing we don’t know is does Chris Middleton play 30 minutes? Because if he does, we draft him at the end of the draft. Or is he 25 minutes? Uh, so we what do I even have him project that minutes worth watch? I’ve only got about 25 and honestly drafting Chris Middleton where he gets 25 minutes like he is like a probably a top 135 points league guy but if he plays 30 minutes he’s a top 120 category guy as well. He shot the ball well. He’s still good. He’s just not the same Chris Middleton and the body is obviously not T. And then there’s Bilal who’s going to miss maybe a week or two to begin the season with that thumb surgery. that is the only that’s one of the main reasons why I’m a little sour on him and and then I do worry about playing time but the steals and blocks and assist combination for him is really strong but I am getting a little worried on Bil that the shooting will never be a thing which very clearly is not uh great if we look at their schedule because they do have an interesting fantasy schedule they have the most backto-backs in the league at 16 that doesn’t really worry us too much but what they do have is the week of March the 16th the week of March the 16th They have five games. Five games in a week. Not many teams have five game weeks this season, but they do. They are one of two teams during that week, Phoenix being the other one, which is finals week for my recommended playoff schedule that have five games in that week. Now, we will not count on CJ McCullum or Chris Middleton playing five. And I don’t think you should be making flyer decisions on Whitmore, Bilal, Keshawn, Bub drafting those guys. as Trey Johnson with the hope that they’re good enough to maintain to get five games in that week. But when you start to plan things out and look for streaming, that is useful. That is maybe a way to boost some of the value for Alex Sar getting those five because you’re going to draft him anyway. But if you’re debating the five games is an important thing, but there’s no one that’s like, “Wow, this is a top 10 player and he might have a five game week that elevates him because that that guy doesn’t exist on this team.” and that is the Washington Wizards. So, we’re going to be looking at things like do not draft lists and bust shows and you mustdraft players and way more mock drafts of course coming during the week. Um, it’s great that we finished all 29 NBA teams and gone through all of their fantasy production and overvalued and undervotes because things change. We get more information in. So, when I’m doing mock drops, I’m always dropping little bits and pieces of things that I’ve heard or seen as we’re trying to evaluate where these players go. If you are live here, well, not live. If you’re on the YouTube mobile app, hit the thumb up. Uh, give it a hype as well. Scroll that comments across. Hit hype. Leave your um comments, subscribe in all the places you do it, guys. We are done here. Thank you so much for listening everyone. See you. [Music]

The Washington Wizards made moves this offseason — bringing in CJ McCollum and giving Alex Sarr a clear path to frontcourt minutes — but they still project as one of the worst teams in the NBA.

Josh Lloyd breaks down the fantasy basketball landscape for the Wizards heading into the 2025–26 season. He covers rotation uncertainty, Sarr’s breakout potential, and why McCollum might be overvalued on draft day. There’s also discussion on Bub Carrington, Cam Whitmore, and Bilal Coulibaly, and how their development affects fantasy depth.

🗝️ Key topics:

Wizards’ crowded backcourt

CJ McCollum’s fantasy fit and trade risk

Alex Sarr’s upside and role security

Late-round fliers and sleepers

Why patience will be key with Wizards players

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0:00 – Introduction and team overview
1:35 – Projected starting lineup
3:36 – Roster challenges and uncertainties
10:16 – Undervalued players
13:50 – Overvalued players
15:52 – Star potential
20:30 – New arrivals
26:05 – Breakout candidates
29:09 – Injury concerns
30:09 – Schedule analysis
31:42 – Conclusion