FREE PREVIEW - 2025 Summer League Invite Rookie Rankings
Ranking the 90 prospects who received invites to Summer League teams.
Vegas Summer League starts tomorrow and you may wonder while watching: who are all these guys?
My full rookie rankings rank every single prospect who was eligible for the 2025 NBA Draft who was drafted, signed to a two-way or Exhibit 10 contract, or invited to Summer League. I even have a tier of players who worked out for teams in the pre-draft process but are signing overseas or may be future G League signees. The full set is 252 PROSPECTS ranked.
This preview for all of your on the Free tier is all 90 of the prospects invited to Summer League by NBA teams, but not otherwise signed to any kind of contract. Some of these prospects WILL end up getting training camp invites or even two-way contracts based on their Summer League performances, so these are names to know.
If you like the level of detail here and the work I've put in, I hope you consider signing up for the All Access tier at Patreon.com/NBADynastyADP and getting the full rankings I just released today (plus a post-Summer League update later this month). You'll also get the full dynasty rankings that I released last week.
DIRECT LINK: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GO-bZFFQxo4vD4m1WsnZyinUghlDpuMvgNF9_sJwzvM/edit?usp=sharing
Here's what you need to know about my full rookie draft guide:
There are tabs for CATEGORIES and POINTS rankings. Please note that players are in TIERS - Tier 1 (the All-NBA tier), Tier 2 (the All-Star tier) and then tiers for long-term starters (Tier 3), fringe starters/heavy rotation players (Tier 4), long-term rotation players (Tier 5), two-way players (Tier 6), Exhibit-10 contract players (i.e. training camp invitees, Tier 7), Summer Camp invites (Tier 8), and potential invites to Summer League (Tier 9).
Contract status matters SO much more than draft order once you get into the Round 2. There are many players who were drafted in Round 2 who are going to get guaranteed contracts and should be considered well ahead of lesser fantasy players who were drafted in Round 1. Similarly, if a player is on a two-way contract, it doesn't matter if they were drafted or not - judge them based on their talent and fantasy stat set.
Both rankings sets contain pace-free, per-70 possession statistics for each prospect. Because players' teams play at dramatically different paces across the NCAA, international leagues, and the G League, it is ESSENTIAL to compare prospects using pace-free stats. Players whose teams play at slower paces have fewer opportunities to generate fantasy stats and players whose teams play at faster paces are in stat-rich environments that inflate their stats. Pace-free stats eliminate that noise and make an even comparison.
The categories rankings contain my usual assessment of each prospects' nine-category stat set using the pace-free stats mentioned above. While not all players will have the same role in the NBA as they did on their pre-draft teams, I have found this method to be extremely effective at predicting both NBA success and NBA fantasy production - and it's especially good at finding deep sleepers.
The points rankings contain PPP or "point-per-possession" metrics and Per-70 fantasy points metrics for each prospect and two different points league scoring formats: Sleeper's default scoring system and the official NBA scoring format. This gives you a good idea of how each prospects' game translates to fantasy production and has a strong correlation with how prospects produce in fantasy when they reach the NBA. These metrics are also age-adjusted to boost younger prospects who are succeeding against older competition.