Josh Green (SF, DAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 19

February 19, 2023

Josh Green is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 19 of the 2022-23 NBA season.

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 31% of leagues

ANALYSIS: The Mavericks moved a lot of valuable assets to land Kyrie Irving and give Luka Doncic a helping backcourt teammate once and for all. That trade opened the way for Josh Green to start games on a nightly basis, something he's done in all but one of Dallas' February games and once before that on January 28, too.

Green missed more than a month between December 9 and January 18, but since returning to the rotation, he's averaged 33 MPG in 15 games played, including getting eight starts in that span. His per-game stat line since coming back in early January is at 13-3-2 while his averages as a starter in February are at an even healthier 15-4-2 with 0.7+ SPG on top of that.

Green's shooting accuracy vanished in his last two games before the break (27% and 25% from the field with 2 3PM total) but he'd been scorching hot before then so that shouldn't be a reason for concern when assessing his true talent level.

Before that two-game "slump," Green had hit 35-of-60 FGA in the prior five games, averaging 2.2 3PM per game instead of hitting two total in two games. In February alone, Green has scored double-digit points in six-of-eight games while grabbing at least 4+ rebounds in all but two outings.

The per-minute efficiency sucks but that's mostly because this young man is already logging a ridiculous 35 MPG (February) so that's always bound to happen. The positive is that he'll always get to rack up numbers on all statistical fronts if only on pure brute force considering the heavy amount of minutes he gets nightly.

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