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Al Horford (C, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues

ANALYSIS: The Celtics bounced back from a loss to New York on Saturday by (illegally) beating Los Angeles after the refs played blind on the last play of regulation and denied LeBron James a pair of game-deciding freebies with the game ending in a C's W in OT. Cold world, Bron.

Horford, by the way, played the most minutes he's gotten in any single game this season since November 2! Yes, there was OT, but we don't care about that over here, anyway.

After missing 12 days from December 4 to December 16, Horford returned and he's appeared in 20 matchups since. He has obviously started all of those, logging 30+ MPG steadily while putting up nice numbers. The shooting has sucked a bit, mind you, and the volume is low, but you can't have it all.

In January and through Saturday night, Horford has kept up a nightly 8-5-3 stat line to go with 0.7+0.7 SPG+BPG on top of that. He's shooting 42% from the floor on exactly 100 FGA through the weekend in January, which tells you all you need to know about his accuracy and his usage--mediocre and low.

The good thing is that Horford hit treys in bunches while keeping all other shots to the interior zone. He's scored at least one three-point shot in all games after January 8 (that's nine games played between that day and Saturday) while averaging 2.2 3PM per contest. He's bagged 20 three-pointers in total in that span, hitting 2+ in seven of those nine outings.

The 3PM+SPG+BPG is unique and that's where you can extract the most value from rostering/starting Horford. If you want tons of points and rebounds, look elsewhere. Thus the "low" fantasy rostership for a nightly starter in the no. 1 NBA contender.

 

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