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Zach Collins is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 13 of the 2022-23 NBA season.
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 2% of leagues
ANALYSIS: Zach Collins started his first game in nearly a month (Dec. 12) for the Spurs and did so in fantastic fashion: 18 points and 12 rebounds in a 35-minute dub-dub to go with five dimes on the spot. Collins had not grabbed more than eight boards since his last start in mid-December but he proved once more how capable of putting up numbers he is when given enough time.
On a per-minute basis, Collins is averaging an extraordinary 1.05 FP/min (league average at 0.90) this season. In fact, barring a Jan. 2 stinker against Brooklyn, he's scored more than 0.90 FP/min in all other of his last seven games for an average of 1.10 per-minute fantasy production.
Collins can hit the odd three-point shot but he's more comfortable operating in the paint, dumping easy buckets, and pulling down boards. The blocks also come here and there but they tend to do so in low volume.
The big man has missed more than a bunch of time recently recovering from massive injuries in the past handful of months, so it's not that we can demand a lot in such a quick fashion.
That said, he's doing more than enough for needy fantasy GMs with teams in deeper leagues and with upside for even more if San Antonio decides to über-tank the year and trade Jakob Poeltl before the deadline a month from now.
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