Where should Yves Missi be drafted in 2026-27?

The No. 227 player on the 2026-27 projection, up from No. 324 in 2025-26. Yahoo drafters take him at 115.0 on average, 112 picks before his rank: he costs more than he returns.

How many games will Yves Missi play in 2026-27?

Our projection has him at 70 games, after 66 last season.

Yves Missi

New Orleans Pelicans · C · Age 22 · 6′11″

Rankings Spencer Jones Pelle Larsson

Rank#227C #65 · of 233

Value-1.1289-cat, per game

Yahoo ADP115.0

$ Max value$0Yahoo avg $0.0

Games7019 min a game

Rostered3.6%ESPN leagues

Fantasy outlook

The No. 227 player on the 2026-27 projection, up from No. 324 in 2025-26. His weakest category is free-throw percentage at 56.5%. Yahoo drafters take him at 115.0 on average, 112 picks before his rank: he costs more than he returns.

Stats over time

Falling: 9.1 in 2024-25, 5.7 last season.

Last season5.7

2-season average7.4

Trend a season−3.4

2026-27 proj.5.9

Up and down: between 5.7 (2025-26) and 9.1 (2024-25).
Per 36 minutes: 12.2 in 2024-25, 10.4 last season, on 26.8 → 19.7 minutes: the change is mostly his playing time.
The projection (5.9) is in line with last season (5.7).

PTS rank among rotation players

24-25#201of 26625-26#265of 27226-27*–of 213

Per game, from ESPN box scores. * Our 2026-27 projection, dashed.

Season by season

Season	Rank	Value	GP	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG%	FGM/FGA	FT%	FTM/FTA	TO
2026-27Proj.	227	-1.128	70	19	5.9	5.7	1.2	0.3	1.3	57.2%	2.5/4.4	56.5%	0.8/1.4	0.8
2025-26	324	-0.662	66	20	5.7	5.8	1.3	0.3	1.5	54.4%	2.4/4.5	55.9%	0.9/1.6	0.8
2024-25	240	-0.417	73	27	9.1	8.2	1.4	0.5	1.3	54.7%	3.7/6.7	62.3%	1.7/2.8	1.1

Category profile · 2026-27

PTS

5.9-1.01

3PM

0.0-0.85

REB

5.7-0.31

AST

1.2-0.77

STL

0.3-0.74

BLK

1.30.41

FG%

57.2%2.5/4.40.00

FT%

56.5%0.8/1.4-1.11

TO

0.80.61

Not a rotation player on this board: no category ranks.

Team role · New Orleans Pelicans

The New Orleans Pelicans starter at C, with Derik Queen behind him. 65 minutes a night of the 2025-26 rotation left, most of it Jose Alvarado, Micah Peavy, and Kevon Looney; Bennedict Mathurin is the arrival projected for the most minutes (25).

C

1Yves Missi
2Derik Queen
3Karlo Matkovic
4DeAndre Jordan
5Malik DiaNew

Left since 2025-26

Jose AlvaradoSigned by NY Jul 622 min → NY
Micah PeavyTraded Sep 815 min → MEM
Kevon Looney15 min → LAL
Jordan HawkinsTraded Sep 814 min → CHI
Minutes a night65

Arrived

Julian ReeseSigned Sep 2431 min from WSH
Bennedict MathurinSigned Sep 1030 min from LAC
Trendon WatfordSigned Aug 1716 min from PHI
AJ JohnsonAcquired Sep 810 min from DAL
Jaron Pierre Jr.new
Malik DiaSigned Aug 18new

Depth chart from ESPN. Who left and arrived: last season's box scores against today's roster; how and when: ESPN's transaction feed, where it lists the move. Minutes are last season's, per game. New Orleans Pelicans depth chart

Season	Team	GP	MIN	PTS	3PM	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG%	FGM/FGA	FT%	FTM/FTA	TO
2025-26	NO	66	19.7	5.7	0.0	5.8	1.3	0.3	1.5	53.3%	2.4/4.5	60.0%	0.9/1.5	0.8
2024-25	NO	73	26.8	9.1	0.0	8.2	1.4	0.5	1.3	55.2%	3.7/6.7	60.7%	1.7/2.8	1.1

Box-score averages from ESPN.

Yves Missi in fantasy basketball

The outlook above is written from our 2026-27 projection and his recent seasons, and changes with every projection run. His Value and ranks are the same numbers Rankings shows.