28 of the top 150 changed teams: draft them at their four-minutes-fewer rank, except Kawhi Leonard

The rule for the players who changed teams this summer: rank them where they land at four minutes fewer than last season, and take them there. Their value is built on minutes they played for a different coach, next to different teammates. None of them has played a regular-season minute for the new team yet. If they beat that number, you got a bargain. If they do not, you did not overpay.

Format: head-to-head nine-category or roto, 12 teams. Pool: the same 150 players as our recent columns. Minutes: every value is a 2025-26 per-game z-score at that player's own minutes. A z-score is how far a player sits above or below the pool average in one category, and the nine are added up. For the ranges, I scaled every stat in proportion to four minutes fewer and four minutes more, the method from our four-minutes column. Games missed are not priced in.

How I found the movers

I took each player's 2025-26 team, or both teams for a player traded during the season. Then I compared it with the roster each player is on today, October 10. Twenty-eight of the 150 are on a different team. Seven of them sit in our top 50, 11 between 51 and 100, and 10 between 101 and 150.

The 28, with their ranges

Rank	Player	Last season	Now	Minutes	At 4 fewer	At 4 more
4	Kawhi Leonard	Clippers	Raptors	32.1	6	3
30	Paul George	76ers	Celtics	30.7	60	15
40	LaMelo Ball	Hornets	Timberwolves	28.0	84	21
44	LeBron James	Lakers	76ers	33.2	79	24
46	Tyler Herro	Heat	Bucks	31.3	84	24
47	Kel'el Ware	Heat	Bucks	22.1	107	20
50	Jaylen Brown	Celtics	76ers	34.4	84	26
53	Giannis Antetokounmpo	Bucks	Heat	28.9	96	26
56	Nikola Vučević	Bulls and Celtics	Magic	28.4	102	30
67	Brandon Ingram	Raptors	Clippers	33.8	106	37
70	Grayson Allen	Suns	Hornets	28.8	118	37
71	Naz Reid	Timberwolves	Hornets	26.1	126	36
72	DeMar DeRozan	Kings	Nuggets	31.2	115	40
75	Norman Powell	Heat	Bulls	29.6	119	41
81	Julius Randle	Timberwolves	Nets	33.0	119	47
87	Deandre Ayton	Lakers	Wizards	27.2	141	52
93	Kelly Oubre Jr.	76ers	Pacers	31.5	141	61
100	Santi Aldama	Grizzlies	Mavericks	27.9	149	62
101	John Collins	Clippers	Pistons	27.1	150th	61
103	Tobias Harris	Pistons	Spurs	27.7	150th	62
107	Peyton Watson	Nuggets	Cavaliers	29.6	150th	68
108	Miles Bridges	Hornets	Suns	31.0	150th	68
117	Royce O'Neale	Suns	Hornets	28.4	150th	75
128	Sandro Mamukelashvili	Raptors	Lakers	21.9	150th	73
133	Bobby Portis	Bucks	Heat	24.2	150th	86
135	Nic Claxton	Nets	Bulls	27.8	150th	89
141	Jerami Grant	Trail Blazers	Grizzlies	29.7	150th	97
150	Bennedict Mathurin	Pacers and Clippers	Pelicans	30.0	150th	111

"At 4 fewer" and "At 4 more" are the player's rank in the 150 at that many minutes. "150th" means the bottom of the pool.

What the numbers show

• In the early rounds, the movers are also the most minutes-sensitive players. In our top 50, the seven movers swing a median 58 places between four minutes fewer and four minutes more. The 43 players who stayed swing a median 36. The move does not cause that. It means that in the top 50, the players with a new team's minutes still to learn are also the ones whose rank moves more when minutes change.
• From 51 to 100, the movers are no more sensitive than anyone else. Movers swing a median 78 places, and players who stayed swing 79. In that range a minutes guess is shaky for nearly everyone, new team or not.
• Kawhi Leonard is the exception. Fourth on the board, sixth at four minutes fewer, third at four more. Draft Leonard where the board says.
• Kel'el Ware falls the furthest. At last season's 22.1 minutes a night, Ware is 47th. At 18.1, Ware is 107th, a drop of 60 places. Naz Reid drops 55 and Deandre Ayton drops 54.

Crowded rosters

Four teams now carry seven of our 150 players each: Orlando, Cleveland, San Antonio and Charlotte. Last season, by the same count, only two did, Minnesota and Phoenix. Charlotte took three of the movers: Grayson Allen, Reid and Royce O'Neale.

A team has 240 minutes a night to share. Orlando's seven played 213.5 minutes a night between them last season. That is close to the 214.8 of Minnesota's seven, the most of any team last season, so it can be done. But it leaves little room for anyone else, and if a rookie or a bench player earns minutes, they come out of those seven.

The games are a separate risk

These ranges price minutes, not missed games. Three of the seven top-50 movers played fewer than 40 games last season: Paul George 37, Giannis Antetokounmpo 36 and Tyler Herro 33. Our games missed column prices that separately. A new team does not change either number until the games are played.

What to do with it

• For a mover in your first four rounds, use the "At 4 fewer" column as the price. George at 60, LaMelo Ball at 84, LeBron James at 79, Jaylen Brown at 84.
• Take Leonard at the normal rank. Leonard's value barely moves either way.
• From pick 51 on, treat movers like everyone else. The range is wide for all of them.
• In the four crowded rosters, check camp reports. If a coach names a starter or a rotation, update the minutes and the rank with it.