Team: New York Knicks · Status: standard contract · Position: SF/PF · Season age: 29 · Experience: entering 10th NBA season · Role: starting defensive stopper · As of: 2026-07-18
2026-27 median projection
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 33.0 | .482 | .825 | 2.3 | 16.6 | 5.2 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 1.7 |
Approximate volume: 5.8 makes on 12.0 shots and 2.7 makes on 3.3 free throws. Nine-cat: top 45-75 per game. Points: B-, top 70-100 depending on defensive-stat weights. Dynasty: 6.7/10.
Role and evidence
Anunoby averaged 16.7 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 2.3 threes, 1.6 steals, and 0.7 blocks in 33.2 minutes across 67 games, with .484/.828 shooting (Hashtag Basketball). That is nearly the primitive projection; the major uncertainty is games, not rate.
He starts, closes, and can absorb small-ball power-forward or emergency-center minutes. Diawara and Dadiet are not credible threats to his healthy role. More bench use could reduce wear, but Brown still needs Anunoby for the hardest defensive assignments.
The championship review credited Anunoby with 20.1 points, 6.3 rebounds, and 1.5 steals in the playoffs, demonstrating a higher scoring ceiling when matchup or injury states shift usage.
Market and source disagreement
Barutha placed him 64th, ESPN's points board placed him 89th, Hashtag analyst dynasty 66th, and its keeper crowd 54th. Dynatyze listed him 62nd among its visible names. The tighter category/dynasty cluster reflects steals, blocks, turnovers, and percentage impact that generic points scoring can under-reward.
Range
- Ceiling: 70 games, 18 points, 2.5 threes, and 2.5 stocks; top-35 category value.
- Median: top-60ish per game with 64-game totals risk.
- Floor: another soft-tissue absence and steals regression push totals beyond the top 100.
Confidence
Role and per-minute rates: high. Steals/blocks: medium-high but noisy. Availability: medium-low, the chief reason not to pay for the ceiling.
Career record
Pre-NBA: Indiana (two seasons). As a freshman in 2015-16 he played 34 games at 13.7 MPG for 4.9 points, 2.6 rebounds, 0.8 steals and 0.8 blocks on .569 FG, .448 3PT and .476 FT — an efficient, low-volume role. The 2016-17 sophomore year was the breakout and it ended early: 16 games at 25.1 MPG for 11.1 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.3 blocks on .557 FG and .311 3PT before a right knee injury against Penn State on January 18, 2017 required season-ending surgery. He declared for the draft that April. Draft: 2017, first round, 23rd overall, Toronto.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | 20 | TOR | 74 | 20.0 | 5.9 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.0 | .471 | .629 | 0.6 |
| 2018-19 | 21 | TOR | 67 | 20.2 | 7.0 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | .453 | .581 | 0.8 |
| 2019-20 | 22 | TOR | 69 | 29.9 | 10.6 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 1.3 | .505 | .706 | 1.1 |
| 2020-21 | 23 | TOR | 43 | 33.3 | 15.9 | 5.5 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 2.4 | .480 | .784 | 1.7 |
| 2021-22 | 24 | TOR | 48 | 36.0 | 17.1 | 5.5 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 2.4 | .443 | .754 | 1.7 |
| 2022-23 | 25 | TOR | 67 | 35.6 | 16.8 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 2.1 | .476 | .838 | 2.0 |
| 2023-24 | 26 | TOR | 27 | 33.3 | 15.1 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 2.3 | .489 | .717 | 1.6 |
| 2023-24 | 26 | NYK | 23 | 34.9 | 14.1 | 4.4 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.8 | .488 | .791 | 1.7 |
| 2024-25 | 27 | NYK | 74 | 36.6 | 18.0 | 4.8 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 2.3 | .476 | .810 | 1.4 |
| 2025-26 | 28 | NYK | 67 | 33.2 | 16.7 | 5.2 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 2.3 | .484 | .828 | 1.8 |
| Career | 559 | 30.6 | 13.3 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 1.8 | .476 | .774 | 1.4 |
The 2023-24 season is shown as its two halves rather than a blended row: Toronto traded him to New York on December 30, 2023. The steals and blocks both jumped after the move, and the assists fell, which is the cleanest available evidence of how the two roles differed.
Fantasy history: 2024-25 is the one season with a directly citable finish — roughly fourth-round nine-category value on a per-game basis, so approximately top-40, built on the rare combination of 2.3 threes with 1.5 steals and 0.9 blocks and only 1.4 turnovers. 2022-23 was likely comparable or slightly better per-game, since he led the NBA in total steals that year, but a specific season-end rank for it is not verified here and I will not estimate one. 2025-26 per-game production is nearly identical to 2024-25 with slightly fewer minutes and more turnovers, so a similar neighborhood is the reasonable inference, though again not verified. The points-league shape is materially worse than the category shape and always has been: 16 to 18 points with two assists and five rebounds is ordinary scoring, and points formats give back nothing for the steals, blocks and low turnovers that carry his category value. Expect a 20-to-40 slot gap between his 9-cat and points ranks in most years.
Durability: 74, 67, 69, 43, 48, 67, 50, 74, 67. The 43- and 48-game seasons in 2020-21 and 2021-22 are the historical worry, and 2023-24 was 50 games across two teams. In 2025-26 he missed roughly 15 games, the largest chunk from a left hamstring strain suffered five minutes into the November 14, 2025 win over Miami that cost him at least two weeks. He then strained the right hamstring late in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on May 6, 2026 and missed Games 3 and 4, though he returned for the conference finals and the title run. Two hamstring events in one calendar year on a 36-minute wing is the specific risk to price, not a generic injury-prone label.
Trajectory: The career is a slow, real skill build rather than a minutes illusion. The 2019-20 jump (10.6 points on .505) came from starting and a corner-three diet; the 2020-21 jump to 15.9 on 2.4 threes was the shot-creation expansion, and per-36 scoring has been essentially flat from 2020-21 onward — the last five years are the same player at different minute loads, which is exactly what you want from a projection standpoint. What has actually improved is free throw shooting, from .629 as a rookie to the .810 to .838 range in the New York years, and turnover economy: 1.4 to 1.8 giveaways at 33 to 36 minutes is elite for a wing with the ball. He is entering age 29 with no per-minute decline yet visible, but the aging curve for high-mileage defensive wings bends between 29 and 31, and the two hamstring strains are the first mechanical signal. For 2026-27 the rate projection is safe and the games projection is not: the honest range is 60 to 70 games of a top-45 category line, and the deep playoff runs in 2025 and 2026 have added meaningful mileage that the raw GP column does not show.
Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia — OG Anunoby · NBA.com, hamstring strain, Nov 2025 · NBA.com, playoff hamstring, May 2026 · StatMuse, season-by-season per game
Table re-verified cell-by-cell against ESPN and StatMuse on 2026-07-18; both agree on every row. StatMuse reports 2023-24 only as a blended 50-game line (34.0 MPG, 14.7 points, 4.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.4 steals, 0.7 blocks, 2.0 threes, .489 FG, .753 FT, 1.6 turnovers), which reconciles with the two split rows shown above.
Open questions
- Can Anunoby reach 68-70 games after another long postseason?
- Does small-ball center use add blocks or increase wear without fantasy benefit?