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Charles Bassey

Charles Bassey is a high-rate rebound-and-block handcuff whose fantasy ceiling depends almost entirely on missed games by Kristaps Porziņģis and Al Horford.

Team: Golden State Warriors · Age: 25 · Position: C · Status: re-signed · As of: 2026-07-18

2026-27 median projection

GP MPG FG% FT% 3PM PTS REB AST STL BLK TO
43 9.0 .620 .700 0.0 4.4 3.8 0.6 0.3 0.7 0.6

Nine-cat: deep-league blocks/FG specialist; outside the standard top 160 at median volume. Points: D+, but a strong per-minute injury stream. Dynasty: 4.0/10. Opening-night allocation: 4 minutes.

Role and evidence

Golden State re-signed Bassey July 9. He appeared in five Warriors games after joining the team and produced 10.6 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 1.4 blocks in 20.0 minutes; across 13 total 2025-26 games, he averaged 5.8 points, 4.4 boards, and 0.8 blocks in 11.8 minutes (ESPN).

The tiny Golden State sample is a rate clue, not a 20-minute role baseline. Porziņģis and Horford occupy 44 representative center minutes, with Green and Lendeborg both capable of small-ball center work. Bassey's real value is contingent: on a night both veterans rest, he can become a double-double/blocks streamer.

Elite FG% helps only when he attempts enough shots. FT% is a potential negative, while threes and assists are essentially absent.

Range

Career record

Pre-NBA: Nigerian-born five-star recruit; three seasons at Western Kentucky. 14.6 points, 10.0 rebounds, 2.4 blocks on .627 FG as a freshman (Conference USA Freshman of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, first-team All-C-USA). His 2019-20 sophomore year ended after 10 games — 15.3 points, 9.2 rebounds — with a tibial plateau fracture in his left leg suffered December 7, 2019 against Arkansas. He returned in 2020-21 for 17.6 points, 11.6 rebounds and 3.1 blocks on .590 FG in 28 games, winning C-USA Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year and taking USBWA third-team All-America honors. Draft: 2021, second round, No. 53 by Philadelphia.

Season Age Team GP MPG PTS REB AST STL BLK 3PM FG% FT% TO
2021-22 21 PHI 23 7.3 3.0 2.7 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.0 .638 .750 0.3
2022-23 22 SA 35 14.5 5.7 5.5 1.4 0.5 0.9 0.1 .644 .595 1.2
2023-24 23 SA 19 10.8 3.3 4.0 1.1 0.4 0.9 0.0 .725 .833 0.8
2024-25 24 SA 36 10.4 4.4 4.2 0.5 0.4 0.8 0.0 .581 .636 0.6
2025-26 25 4 tms 13 11.8 5.8 4.4 0.5 0.3 0.8 0.0 .660 .700 0.5
Career 126 11.2 4.5 4.3 0.8 0.4 0.9 0.0 .635 .657 0.7

The 2025-26 total spans Memphis (2 games, hardship 10-day), Philadelphia (1), Boston (5, on two 10-days), and Golden State (5 games, 20.0 MPG, 10.6 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1.4 blocks on .677 FG).

Durability: Two significant injuries in San Antonio bracket the middle of his career — a knee fracture in March 2023 and a torn ACL in December 2023, which is what holds 2023-24 to 19 games. He has never appeared in more than 36 NBA games in a season, though after 2024 the constraint has been contract status and roster crowding rather than health.

Trajectory: Five NBA seasons, 126 games, and a career that has been a series of 10-days, two-ways, and end-of-bench conversions rather than a developing role. The per-minute profile is genuinely good — .635 career FG and a block-and-rebound rate that holds up at any volume — and the five-game Golden State stretch at 20 minutes is what a real opportunity looks like. But it is five games. He is the third center behind Kristaps Porziņģis and Al Horford, and Golden State has a long history of preferring Draymond Green at the five in leverage minutes. He is worth a stream only on nights both veterans are out; a Porziņģis injury of several weeks is the one scenario that makes him a standing roster piece.

Career sources: ESPN — Charles Bassey career stats · Wikipedia — Charles Bassey · ESPN — Western Kentucky's Charles Bassey out with tibia fracture · Warriors sign Charles Bassey

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