10 Bold Fantasy Basketball Predictions for the 2018-19 Season

Eric Bledsoe Will Outrank Russell Westbrook

Why This Is Bold: Russell Westbrook is a consensus top-10 pick across the industry and has finished in the top-10 in nine-category leagues in three of the last four seasons. Eric Bledsoe, on the other hand, has hovered in the 35-50 range over the last five seasons and has a modest ADP of 47.0 this year.

Why This Will Happen: Westbrook puts up triple-doubles and near triple-doubles on the regular, but his threes, blocks, low percentages, and high turnovers all drag his value down. Thanks to those holes in his line, he finished last season as the 24th-ranked player in nine-category leagues.

Bledsoe had a shaky start to last season in Phoenix, and took a while to get acclimated to things in Milwaukee, but he really hit his stride over the last two months of the season. Over that 27-game span, he averaged 19.0 points, 2.0 triples, 4.3 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 1.9 steals, 0.6 blocks, and 3.0 turnovers in 32.7 minutes per contest, while shooting 51.3% from the field and 83.0% from the line. He was the 14th-ranked guy in nine-category leagues during that time, and 10th over the last month (16 games).

If the worst-case scenario for Westbrook and the best-case scenario for Bledsoe manage to come true at the same time, Bledsoe has a chance to straight up be the more valuable asset of the two.