Caleb Martin (SF, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

Caleb Martin is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 6 of the 2022-23 NBA season.

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 3% of leagues

ANALYSIS: The Miami Heat are coming off the weirdest game ever in the post-COVID era of the NBA: just seven players logged at least one minute against Washington on Friday with eight of them dressing (the minimum allowed) but one not truly available and just sitting on the bench so Miami didn't have to forfeit the game.

One of the lucky ones, though, was Caleb Martin. Caleb, of the Martin Twins lore, has started on the Heat wings every single time he's appeared in a game. Not only that, but his minutes have gone from 27 MPG in his first seven games to an unreasonable 35 MPG (!) in his last eight. In fact, Martin has not logged fewer than 31 minutes of play in the past five games over a span of 10 days.

Martin is not just doing cardio in those minutes spent on the court, mind you. He's hoisting a palatable 8+ FGA on the season and a healthier 9.5 FGA in the past six games (two weeks) through Saturday. Not only that, but he's actually hitting them nicely going 25-of-57 in that span for a solid 43.8% from the floor having bagged 2+ treys in four of those six games.

The usage rate has remained below a 15% figure for most of the games but the sky-high minutes have forced Martin to shoot the rock as something more than a pure spot-up shooter would. The per-minute efficiency is hurting, obviously, but staying on the court for so long has allowed Martin to put up numbers just on brute force: thus the 5 RPG, 2.5+ APG, and 1+ SPG averages in the past two weeks.

I just made this thing up but Martin is (almost, missing by just 0.1 BPG) one of only 34 players averaging a holy baseline of 8-4-2-1-0.5 through Saturday. Among those 34, only Martin and three more players (Shai, Donovan Mitchell, and Mikal Bridges) boast 40/40/80 shooting splits on top of that.

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