Yahoo Fantasy Basketball is now open for the 2025-26 NBA season! Whether you’ve been chomping at the bit to get back on the hardwood of fantasy basketball or just starting to turn the page into next season, we have you covered with draft rankings for every position, as well as our overall list of players.

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Here, we’ll focus on draft rankings for points leagues, which fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus has compiled below:

Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokić is the No. 1 pick regardless of format, but as you see, points leagues have a clear distinction from other, more category-centric settings. One of those important distinctions is that you don’t have to worry about turnovers in points leagues, hence why a turnover-prone yet fantasy-point machine like Giannis Antetokounmpo is ranked so highly.

Check out the points rankings above and remember to save them to stay abreast of all of Dan’s updates! 

Yahoo Fantasy Basketball is now open for the 2025-26 NBA season! Whether you’ve been chomping at the bit to get back on the hardwood of fantasy basketball or just starting to turn the page into next season, we have you covered with draft rankings for every position, as well as our overall list of players.

[Join or create a fantasy basketball league for the 2025-26 NBA season]

Here, we’ll focus on draft rankings for nine-category leagues, which fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus has compiled below:

As you see, Nikola Jokić, fresh off yet another MVP-caliber campaign, leads all other players as the man who should be the top overall pick. Jokić is now building a consistent fantasy résumé of being a No. 1 overall pick and living up to it.

Who’s the most likely candidate to unseat him? Who’s your top choice beyond Jokić? Keep these rankings saved and bookmarked to stay up to date with all of Dan’s updates this draft season!

Draymond Green brutally claps back at Alperen Şengün’s Warriors-Rockets remarks originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Even in the NBA offseason, Draymond Green won’t bite his tongue.

So when he came across Alperen Şengün’s recent comments about the Warriors’ first-round playoff series win over the Houston Rockets, Green had to fire back.

“That’s a tough thing to say after you lose,” Green wrote on Threads. “You have to win to [say] stuff like that.”

Şengün appeared on the “Socrates Dergi” podcast and candidly shared his point of view on how the physical series played out.

“They’re a very experienced team,” Şengün said. “They fouled a lot. In the playoffs, they don’t call it. But they were the ones crying all series about fouls not being called.”

The gritty seven-game series was filled with different fouls, from personal to technical, and even consisted of a number of ejections. But the Rockets never finished a game with more fouls called on them than the Warriors.

In Game 1, Golden State had 18 fouls, Houston had 15. In Game 2, it was 18 to 17. In the third game, the Warriors finished with 21 fouls, while the Rockets finished with 17. It was close in Game 4, but the Warriors had 22 and the Rockets had 21. Golden State had 27 fouls in Game 5, and Houston had 22. The largest discrepancy came in Game 6, when the Warriors had 12 more fouls called on them (30) than the Rockets (18). In the win-or-go-home Game 7, both teams finished with 14 fouls.

Overall, the Warriors were called for 150 fouls, and the Rockets were called for 124.

That didn’t matter for Golden State in the end, though, as Buddy Hield’s historic Game 7 helped lift the team to the Western Conference semifinals and ended Şengün and the Rockets’ season.

“Hold that L,” Green wrote in response to a post of Şengün’s comments.

The Warriors host Şengün and the Rockets on Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving, for their first regular-season matchup of the 2025-26 NBA season at Chase Center.

Get your popcorn, turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie ready.

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Why Warriors star Steph Curry now has greater appreciation for Paris Olympics originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Steph Curry recently has been reflecting on his legendary one-and-done run with Team USA during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.

And now that it has been roughly a year since he momentarily exchanged his Warriors threads for the Red, White and Blue, Curry is even more grateful to have had the international experience, particularly for representing his country while helping unify NBA fans everywhere. 

The gold medalist and four-time NBA champion further explained his Olympic reflection in an exclusive interview with NBC Sports Bay Area’s Dalton Johnson at the ninth annual Curry Camp on Friday in Menlo Park.

“One hundred percent, August 10, 2024, will always be a core memory,” Curry told Johnson, referencing Team USA’s win over Team France in the gold medal game. “A new experience playing with the guys who were on that team — the Avengers. 

“And the fact that it didn’t matter what NBA team you root for, you were a Team USA fan that day. So, [it’s] a very special memory for me, for sure.”

With LeBron James and Kevin Durant as two of his several big-name teammates, Curry led the Americans in the Olympic final with 24 points on eight made 3-point shots — including his iconic “Golden Dagger — with an underappreciated five assists and two steals.

Curry didn’t have much to tell Johnson about his iconic triple. The 11-time NBA All-Star knows you know what happened — and that France contemplated banning “Curry Sauce” at its national McDonald’s restaurants. 

“The [‘Golden Dagger’] is what it is now, part of the story,” Curry told Johnson.

Curry’s unreal Olympic run helped him complete his overflowing trophy case with the gold medal he was missing. And as he told Johnson, the memory of the international victory tastes sweeter with time.

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The New York Yankees have had their issues this season, but power isn’t one of them.

With nine homers in a 13-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, New York tied a franchise record set earlier this year. They also finished just one long ball shy of the MLB record of 10, held by the 1987 Toronto Blue Jays.

There have been only four times in MLB history in which a team has hit at least nine homers in a game. The 2025 Yankees have half of them.

Like in their first nine-homer game, the Yankees got started with three consecutive homers in the first inning. Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton all took Rays starter Shane Baz deep, with Judge recording his 40th homer of the season.

The Yankees got that hot start after a two-hour rain delay at their leased-out home away from home at Steinbrenner Field.

Bellinger and Stanton both went on to add another homer later in the game. Jazz Chisholm Jr., Ben Rice and Jose Caballero all chipped in as well, with Caballero hitting a second in the ninth to make history.

Across MLB history, there has been only one instance of a team hitting 10 homers in a game, three in which a team hit nine and 23 in which they hit eight. 

Funnily enough, as MLB.com’s Sarah Langs notes, Yankees manager Aaron Boone was involved in all three of those nine-homer games. He managed the Yankees’ two this year and hit the first homer in the third game for the Cincinnati Reds in 1999.

The Yankees had that other nine-homer game in their second game of the season, which you may recall because a) poor Nestor Cortes allowed homers on his first three pitches against his old team and b) that’s when the world first started to learn about New York’s torpedo bats. The craze around the torpedo bats quickly faded after the first couple weeks of the season, but they’ve still helped the Yankees enough that they lead MLB in homers by a healthy margin, with 204 compared to the second-place Dodgers 187.

The vibes for the Yankees are a bit worse with this power surge, as they remain five games back from the Toronto Blue Jays for first place in an AL East division they were once strongly favored to win. The Blue Jays won 7-3 against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday to maintain their lead.

There have been signs the Yankees are turning things around after a brutal month and a half, though, with wins in five of their past six games. They can’t redistribute some of Tuesday’s homers to other games, but they’re certainly a good omen the team is back on the right track.