The NBA regular season is just around the corner, which means we are officially in the heart of fantasy basketball drafting season.
To get started on your research, jump on over to our NBA player projections. There, you will find total and per-game projections for each NBA player as well as a one-number value that shows each player's overall importance in fantasy hoops based on his contributions in your typical standard-league categories (the "Fantasy" column).
We're here today to give you five breakout candidates from our projections. For our purposes, a breakout candidate is someone who has a Yahoo or ESPN ranking within the top 100, but who we project to handily beat that mark in overall nine-category value this season.