From Jamal Murray to Jalen Duren, here are the best fantasy basketball picks by round for the 2025-26 NBA season

If you nailed your fantasy basketball draft, you probably landed one of these players. Here are the players who either met or greatly exceeded their draft slot. It's the offseason, so let's reflect on the single best pick from each round, based on Yahoo Fantasy Basketball ADP.

Round 1 Best Pick: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (ADP: 3. 8) The first round was riddled with injuries, so I picked SGA. Gilgeous-Alexander appeared on 27.

6% of Yahoo’s top-500 public leagues, signaling you likely had a contending team if you rostered him. Despite missing 10 games around the All-Star break, he returned in March for the fantasy playoffs and finished the season ranked third overall in 9-cat and fourth in High Score. He played more games than any other first-round pick, proving his reliability.

Round 2 Best Pick: Tyrese Maxey (ADP: 18. 1) Maxey delivered first-round value most of the season, finishing top-five in 9-cat and top-seven in High Score. He hit career highs in six of nine categories and ranked as the fifth-most rostered player on Yahoo’s top-500 teams.