Fantasy Basketball Week 25 Start/Sit: Final Week Picks
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- Ayo Dosunmu (MIN) is a recommended start, averaging 15.8 points, 6.4 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 0.8 steals, and 1.9 three-pointers over his past 12 games (top-55 value), with Jaden McDaniels likely sidelined for the final week due to a knee injury.
- Collin Sexton (CHI) has flirted with top-50 value over the past month, averaging 19.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.2 steals, and three three-pointers, and the Bulls have little to play for, making his bench role likely stable.
- Andrew Nembhard (IND) is a sit after missing three straight games for 'back management' — King argues Indiana is clearly resting him to avoid accidentally winning games, making the risk of starting him too high.
- Kobe Brown (IND) is a beneficiary of that same Pacers shutdown, averaging 11.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 4 assists, and 1.5 three-pointers across six games over the past two weeks while playing sizable minutes on a team with nothing to lose.
- Tobias Harris (DET) is a sit because Detroit has basically locked up the top seed in the Eastern Conference, putting a player with a season-long history of minor injuries at the top of the rest list.
- Miles Bridges (CHA) presents a dilemma — he's been a top-15 player over the past week (22 pts, 5.8 reb, 3 ast, 1.3 stl, 3 3PM across four games) but Charlotte plays only three games, with just one in the first four nights of the week.
- Wendell Carter Jr (ORL) is a start because Orlando is still playing for something, projecting close to 30 minutes per game across four contests with theoretical upside of 60 points and 30 rebounds for the week.
- Nic Claxton (BKN) is a sit for the second straight week, stuck outside the top 250 in 13 appearances over the past two months as Brooklyn rotates its lineup nightly and caps him at roughly 23 minutes.
Why it matters: Week 25 is the single most volatile week of the fantasy season because tanking teams (Indiana) and playoff-locked teams (Detroit) are openly sitting starters, turning every lineup decision into a gamble. Fantasy managers who blindly trust recent averages will be burned by guys like Nembhard and Harris, while those who pivot to beneficiaries of shutdown minutes — Dosunmu in Minnesota, Brown in Indiana, Carter in Orlando — can extract hidden value from the chaos. The four three-game teams (CHA, NOP, SAC, UTA) are essentially bench-everyone situations.
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