Domantas Sabonis is a points-league pick and a 9-cat pass

Domantas Sabonis played only 19 games last season. He tore the meniscus in his left knee in November, missed 27 games, came back in January with the knee still sore, and then had season-ending surgery, as NBC Sports reported at the time. He spent the offseason in trade rumors that linked him to Charlotte and Detroit, which he dismissed to Eurohoops this month as "all made up," as Bleacher Report and Yahoo Sports relayed, and he opens the season as Sacramento's center.

He is also the clearest example on our board of a player whose value is a different number in each format. In early October ESPN drafters were taking him around 17th and Yahoo drafters around 27th, the consensus has him 22nd on points and 38th in 9-cat, and our analysts split on him more widely than on any other player in the points top thirty.

Every player in this story is on the fantasy basketball rankings and the 2026-27 projections, and the NBA depth charts show where each one stands in his team’s rotation tonight.