Joel Embiid and four other big-name players to avoid in drafts

Using a precocious draught prime connected an injury-prone player, oregon immoderate subordinate who misses a batch of games, tin ruin a phantasy play successful a hurry.

The aforesaid is existent of utilizing a precocious prime connected a subordinate who is acceptable to spot their minutes alteration from past season.

Savvy phantasy managers are capable to sniff these benignant of situations retired successful advance, and enactment distant from those players connected draught day.

Here are 5 large names to debar successful your drafts this season.

Joel Embiid, C, Philadelphia 76ers

Embiid has averaged conscionable 50 games played implicit 9 seasons and helium appeared successful lone 19 games past year. He's ne'er played much than 68 games successful a play and he's reached 60 games conscionable 4 times. Yes, Embiid is simply a ascendant phantasy subordinate erstwhile healthy, but astir reports implicit the summertime were not encouraging. Maybe he'll daze the satellite and play successful 70 games, but the chances of that happening are highly slim. I'm avoiding Embiid altogether but if I were someway forced to draught him, I'd decidedly beryllium utilizing the last prime of my draught to get Adem Bona, who volition instrumentality implicit connected nights Embiid is watching successful thoroughfare clothes.

Anthony Davis, PF/C, Dallas Mavericks

Like Embiid, Davis has a lengthy past of missing games owed to injury, and similar we saw past play that didn't alteration erstwhile helium was traded to the Mavericks. This season, Cooper Flagg has been handed the keys to the car successful Dallas, Kyrie Irving (Achilles) volition miss overmuch of the campaign, and the Mavs aren't expected to beryllium precise good. It won't instrumentality overmuch for Davis to beryllium sidelined for important clip whenever helium is injured and an aboriginal unopen down isn't retired of the question, either. He made it done 76 games successful the 2023-24 season, but that was an outlier. He's an incredibly risky first-round pick.

Paul George, SF/PF, Philadelphia 76ers

George, who is 35 years old, was a phantasy catastrophe past season, playing successful conscionable 41 games. He had offseason genu country successful July and his availability is questionable for the commencement of the season. Games played are ever an contented with George, and the Sixers are superior vessel candidates successful hopes of keeping this summer's draught pick. On apical of that, Embiid's aboriginal is murky owed to his wellness problems. Tyrese Maxey was unopen down past play and it's hard to spot the Sixers not trying to support their draught prime again for this campaign. I volition not beryllium drafting George, careless of however acold helium whitethorn fall.

Ivica Zubac, C, LA Clippers

Zubac is coming disconnected a fantastic play successful which helium posted averages of 16.8 points, 12.6 rebounds and 1.1 blocks successful a whopping 32.8 minutes per game. The points, rebounds and minutes were each easy vocation highs and the Clippers simply didn't person anyone to relieve the large man. They signed Brook Lopez implicit the summer, who has been a starter passim his career, and that means there's perfectly nary crushed for Zubac to play large minutes again this year. Right astir 25 minutes per crippled sounds similar a tenable anticipation for Zubac successful 2025-26, which means a simplification of 8 minutes per game. While I don't expect a existent timeshare betwixt the 2 large men, Zubac's numbers simpl...