Cade Cunningham

Cunningham is already Detroit's franchise offensive engine rather than a young player still auditioning for that job. The interesting part comes next. Detroit's supporting cast is changing around him: Tobias Harris and Isaiah Stewart are gone, while Jalen Duren's long-term situation remains unsettled. The interesting question now is how much more responsibility Detroit can realistically put on his plate before the workload starts looking like a social experiment. Those changes could alter where his assists come from, how much creation Detroit asks him to shoulder and how defenses load up against him.

At age 24, Cade Cunningham combines a 67.7 Future Potential score with 30.7 projected fantasy points per game. DynastyAI has him at No. 5, with 64.0 Opportunity and N/A Momentum. The numbers do not guarantee another leap, but they give the long-term case several different ways to win.