Player card
- Team / role: Phoenix Suns starting wing, primary point-of-attack defender and tertiary scorer
- Healthy rotation: 30 MPG
- Season projection: 64 GP, 30 MPG
- 9-cat line: .440 FG (6.7/15.2), .830 FT (2.5/3.0), 2.2 3PM, 18.1 PTS, 3.8 REB, 1.8 AST, 1.0 STL, 0.2 BLK, 1.6 TO
- Projection confidence: Medium
- Formats: Late points-league scorer; threes/points streamer in nine-cat; weak dynasty profile relative to real-life role
Role and evidence
Brooks averaged 20.2 points in 30.4 minutes across 56 regular-season games, then 26.0 points in Phoenix's four playoff games. His 2025-26 fantasy line also carried 2.3 threes, 1.1 steals, and .842 FT, but a .435 field-goal percentage on 17 attempts was a category cost. Sources: Hashtag Basketball, updated 2026-07-02, NBA 2026 first-round stats. Confidence: high on the direction, medium-high on third-party regular-season splits.
That shot count was enabled by Jalen Green missing 50 games. With Green, Devin Booker, and Miles Bridges all healthy, Brooks should return toward a tertiary role. His defense keeps him near 30 minutes, but fantasy managers should not pay for the playoff scoring burst.
Brooks fractured his left hand in February, had surgery, and returned for the postseason. The base treats that injury as resolved. He also received the automatic one-game suspension for a 16th technical foul; only announced discipline is modeled. Sources: NBA hand-injury report, 2026-02-24, NBA official suspension, 2026-02-12. Confidence: high on events, medium on future games.
Category shape
- Wins: Points, threes, free-throw percentage, roughly one steal.
- Neutral: Low turnovers relative to scoring usage.
- Costs: Field-goal percentage, limited assists, and almost no blocks.
- Build fit: Punt-FG% teams or short-term points/threes streaming.
Points and dynasty outlook
ESPN ranked Brooks No. 121 in April points leagues. The post-trade roster makes that more defensible than extrapolating his 20-point season upward. Source: ESPN rankings, 2026-04-14. Confidence: medium.
Hashtag's July dynasty list placed him No. 171. At 30, with fantasy value tied to scoring volume and no elite category, he is a contender's depth piece rather than a rebuilding asset. Source: Hashtag dynasty rankings, updated 2026-07-02. Confidence: medium.
Floor, base, ceiling
- Floor: 15-16 points on poor FG% if everyone is healthy and the offense relegates him to spot-ups.
- Base: 18.1 points, 2.2 threes, one steal; useful but replaceable outside points leagues.
- Ceiling: Another injury-created 20-point role plus 1.2 steals; top-90 stretches are possible, not the median.
Draft verdict
Brooks is a late-round volume bet whose real-life starting status can be mistaken for category value. Draft only after accounting for FG% and the likelihood that Green and Bridges absorb shots. He becomes a strong streamer whenever one of Phoenix's three other perimeter scorers sits.
Career record
Pre-NBA: Oregon, three seasons (2014-15 through 2016-17). 109 career games, 14.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists on .472 FG / .362 3PT / .794 FT. Pac-12 All-Freshman team in 2015; 16.7 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.1 assists as a sophomore on a Pac-12 regular-season title team; 16.1 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.7 assists as a junior, when he was named Pac-12 Player of the Year and a consensus second-team All-American on an Oregon side that reached the Final Four. Draft: 2017, second round, 45th overall by Houston; draft rights traded to Memphis, where he spent his first six seasons.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | 22 | MEM | 82 | 28.7 | 11.0 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.1 | .440 | .747 | 1.5 |
| 2018-19 | 23 | MEM | 18 | 18.3 | 7.5 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | .402 | .733 | 1.1 |
| 2019-20 | 24 | MEM | 73 | 28.9 | 16.2 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.0 | .407 | .808 | 1.7 |
| 2020-21 | 25 | MEM | 67 | 29.8 | 17.2 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.9 | .419 | .815 | 1.8 |
| 2021-22 | 26 | MEM | 32 | 27.7 | 18.4 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.4 | .432 | .849 | 1.6 |
| 2022-23 | 27 | MEM | 73 | 30.3 | 14.3 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.0 | .396 | .779 | 1.4 |
| 2023-24 | 28 | HOU | 72 | 30.9 | 12.7 | 3.4 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.8 | .428 | .844 | 1.2 |
| 2024-25 | 29 | HOU | 75 | 31.8 | 14.0 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.5 | .429 | .818 | 1.0 |
| 2025-26 | 30 | PHX | 56 | 30.4 | 20.2 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 2.3 | .435 | .842 | 1.8 |
| Career | 548 | 29.6 | 14.8 | 3.3 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.9 | .421 | .810 | 1.5 |
Fantasy history: Season-end nine-category ranks are not verifiable from public sources for any of Brooks's seasons, so no year-by-year finish is stated here rather than estimated. What the raw line supports: his best category seasons were 2020-21 and 2021-22, when he combined 17-18 points with 1.1-1.2 steals and .815-.849 free-throw shooting, and 2025-26, when the scoring spike offset a still-mediocre field-goal percentage. The Houston years (2023-24, 2024-25) were clearly weaker in categories — 12.7 and 14.0 points with under one steal — even though 2024-25 produced a career-high 2.5 threes. The points-league shape is consistently better than the category shape: Brooks scores and shoots threes without producing assists, blocks, or a strong field-goal percentage, so per-game points formats value him materially higher than nine-cat does. ESPN's April 2026 points-league list at No. 121 against Hashtag's dynasty No. 171 is the same gap in miniature.
Durability: 82, 18, 73, 67, 32, 73, 72, 75, 56. Two seasons account for nearly all of the damage. In 2018-19 he ruptured a ligament in his right big toe on January 5, 2019, had surgery on January 11, and missed the rest of the year (18 games played). In 2021-22 he opened the season out two to three weeks with a fractured left hand (announced October 12, 2021), then sprained his left ankle on January 8, 2022 and was ruled out three to five weeks — 32 games total. In 2025-26 he broke his left hand against Orlando, was given a four-to-six week timeline, and missed 18 games before returning for the postseason; a one-game suspension for a 16th technical foul accounts for one more absence, and the remaining handful is not attributed to a specific cause in public reporting. Outside those three years he has been a 67-to-82 game player, which is the more representative baseline.
Trajectory: The 2025-26 scoring jump was a usage event, not a development event — 23.9 points per 36 minutes against 15.9 the prior year on essentially identical playing time. That kind of one-season, per-minute doubling of scoring rate almost never holds when the players whose absence created it come back, and Jalen Green's 50 missed games plus Phoenix's roster churn are the whole explanation. The more durable read is the eight seasons before it: a .421 career shooter who has never cleared .440 in a full year, whose steals have drifted from 1.2 down toward 0.8-1.0, and whose assist rate peaked at 2.8 in 2021-22. The one genuine skill gain is the three-point volume, which climbed from 1.1 as a rookie to 2.3-2.5 across the last two seasons at respectable efficiency, and that should survive a smaller role because it is a shot-diet change rather than a usage grant. At 30 with a defensive job that keeps minutes stable, the aging curve points to the Houston version — low-teens scoring, two-plus threes, one steal, poor field-goal percentage — with 2025-26 as the outlier rather than the new level.
Career sources: ESPN career stats, StatMuse season-by-season, Sports-Reference college stats, Wikipedia — Dillon Brooks
Open questions
- How many shots survive when Booker, Green, Bridges, and Brooks share the floor?
- Does Phoenix reduce his offensive burden enough to improve efficiency?
- Will technical-foul accumulation again cost games?