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Rockets guard/forward Jae'sean Tate is a worthy consideration as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 10 of the NBA season.
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 27% of leagues
ANALYSIS: If this is a dream, I don't want out. Jae'sean Tate probably doesn't want to wake up, either. Tate went undrafted in 2018, lost no time in flying to Europe to play in Belgium, spent last season in Australia, and finally fulfilled his dream of playing NBA basketball this season after signing with the Rockets. And given Houston's current rebuilding effort, he couldn't have landed in a better place.
Tate has started 18 of his last 19 games, and 16 in a row going back to Jan. 20. That's a month starting without fail, just in case. Looking at the most recent two weeks of play, Tate has averaged 31 MPG in which he's put up a sound 14-6-2-1 line nightly even on a rather low 15% usage rate. Tate's mojo is in his shooting, something he excels at with a 56 FG% on the year (58% in February) and a true shooting of 65% in the past month (17 games through Wednesday's match).
For some reason, fantasy GMs have yet to catch up to Tate's exploits and the "rookie" is rostered in fewer than one of each three Yahoo leagues, which barely makes sense. Wall and Oladipo are missing games here and there resting from time to time, P.J. Tucker might be moved in a trade, and it is not that Eric Gordon/Ben McLemore are superb players way better than Tate. Tate bet on himself and won. You know what to do.
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