Torrey Craig (SF, PHX) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of leagues ANALYSIS: This is a kinda-speculative pick, but not that much when you consider we're already past the trade deadline, and barring a surprising buyout-market pick by the Suns... then Phoenix's rotation at the SF/PF position doesn't feature many warm bodies going forward, let […]

Reggie Bullock (SF, DAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of leagues ANALYSIS: The massacre perpetrated in Dallas in the effort to land Kyrie Irving was expected to be fixed before the trade deadline... but it never came to happen. I'm talking, of course, of the Mavericks trading away every living breathing forward in their […]

Devonte' Graham (PG, SAS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of leagues ANALYSIS: The San Antonio Spurs waited until the final moments before the deadline to make some moves but ultimately moved some of their pieces--namely Jakob Poeltl and Josh Richardson--while adding a few in return. One of those is Devonte' Graham, who had been […]

Tim Hardaway Jr. (SG, DAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's been a while since tweener Tim Hardaway Jr. moved from his classic SG role to manning the SF slot in Dallas, making room for Luka Doncic and Spencer Dinwiddie to operate the one-and-two-guard spots. That's great for the future of Timmy […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 18: Tim Hardaway, Devonte' Graham, Immanuel Quickley

The deeper a fantasy basketball league, the harder it is to hit a winner with your last few picks. It is also harder to find decent help from the waiver wire if your late-round picks don't do you justice. If you picked up a few stinkers, don't lose hope just yet. I will try to […]

Kenyon Martin (SF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 15% of leagues ANALYSIS: I don't think Kenyon Martin Jr. is any hidden gem anymore, but here I am writing about him as part of my weekly WW targets because he's still somehow rostered in just 15% of all ESPN leagues being played out there. Seriously. […]

Malik Monk (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of leagues ANALYSIS: Malik Monk left Friday's game early with an ankle sprain and with just 15 minutes on his odometer against the Mavs back then. He missed Saturday's matchup entirely but the injury isn't considered a concern going forward. Terence Davis was the man […]

Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 15% of leagues ANALYSIS: One game into the Hart Era of New York Knicks basketball (as the Nets fans would call it, I guess), Immanuel Quickley can sleep tight after knowing he's not the main casualty of the aftermath of the arrival of the former Trail […]

Thomas Bryant (C, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: I think I would have been writing about Thomas Bryant whether he had stayed in Los Angeles or not, but after he got traded to the Denver Nuggets right before the deadline, I think it makes even more sense to do so […]

Markelle Fultz (PG, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 47% of leagues ANALYSIS: We're barely two months into Markelle Fultz's Return Tour but it's been so far so good for the much-maligned point guard. Starting at the one for the Magic since the day he returned, it's already been 35-of-35 games started for the former […]

Walker Kessler (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 35% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Jazz didn't sell the whole team at the deadline day but they moved enough pieces to let folks around the league know that they indeed are just another tanking and rebuilding team looking more for a bright future rather than a […]

Chris Boucher (PF, TOR) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of leagues ANALYSIS: The addition of Jakob Poeltl by the Toronto Raptors might end up affecting the big-man rotation of the Raptors but that should quite be the case nor change Chris Boucher's role in the squad that much. At the end of the day, […]

Derrick White (PG, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 57% of leagues ANALYSIS: First and foremost, Marcus Smart doesn't seem to be quite ready to make his return to the court yet. Even then, though, and with the All-Star break right around the corner at the end of this week, it wouldn't make much sense to […]

MMA DFS Value Picks - UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski (Premium Content)

Second month of the year, second big event of 2023, 16th trip to Australia by the UFC, and first one since before COVID-19 hit this rounded thing we call Mother Earth when Dana & Co. flew to Melbourne for UFC 243 when Israel Adesanya defeated Robert Whittaker with a second-round KO. Anyway, it's time to […]

Kenyon Martin Jr. (SF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: Wath a wild season it's been for the Houston Rockets and Kenyon Martin Jr. He was on the fringe of making the team at the start of the season but ultimately stayed put and played a reasonably important part in it. Then […]

Max Strus (SF, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: Just taking the quickest of glimpses at Max Strus' stat line will tell you all you need to know about him. Still in doubt? Well, it's very simple: spot-up shooter with little upside outside of that but murderous long-range shooting tendencies. Strus […]

Malik Monk (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of leagues ANALYSIS: After going through a rough spell just a few weeks ago to start the 2023 calendar year, Malik Monk is now back as a prominent part of the Kings' rotation. Monk played fewer than 20 minutes in 10 of the 14 games […]

Onyeka Okongwu (C, ATL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: The first piece of the trade deadline domino fell on Sunday when Kyrie Irving was sent to Dallas in the first winter blockbuster. That has nothing to do with Atlanta, of course, but it might be a sign of things to come--mostly […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 17: Kenyon Martin Jr., Malik Monk, Immanuel Quickley

The deeper a fantasy basketball league, the harder it is to hit a winner with your last few picks. It is also harder to find decent help from the waiver wire if your late-round picks don't do you justice. If you picked up a few stinkers, don't lose hope just yet. I will try to […]

Derrick White (PG, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: We haven't had an update on Marcus Smart's health/return in a few days going back to January 31 when we heard about him seeing "small improvements." The last IR says he's expected back on February 8, but even if that's the case, […]

Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of leagues ANALYSIS: With Tom Thibodeau at the Knicks' helm, it will never happen, but there are growing voices calling for RJ Barrett's benching in favor of Immanuel Quickley. Of course, and again, that will never happen in New York as that'd mean sending the […]

Bruce Brown (SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 26% of leagues ANALYSIS: As we enter the trade deadline week, all whispers are pointing toward Denver trading Bones Hyland in the event they decide to move someone elsewhere instead of veteran Bruce Brown. Brown has moved in and out of the starting five this season […]

Malik Beasley (SG, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of leagues ANALYSIS: Malik Beasley's appeal has gone down a bit after he had a couple of impressive months to start the season in Utah as the main off-the-pine heater. He averaged around 24 FPPG from October 19 to December 19 and he's now at […]

De'Anthony Melton (SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of leagues ANALYSIS: De'Anthony Melton keeps starting games for the Sixers, keeps putting up numbers, and keeps getting wildly under-rostered percentages for someone contributing as much as he does all across the stat sheet. Barring a two-game skid in which Melton didn't start by mid-January, […]

Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of leagues ANALYSIS: Down, up, and now back down. That's the rookie season of Jabari Smith Jr. in a nutshell, but that also means that he can do it while going through the growing pains as a freshman in a league full of already-grown men. The positive […]

Dillon Brooks (SG/SF, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 54% of leagues ANALYSIS: Let's not focus on the wrong things when discussing Dillon Brooks, folks. That little thing he did to Donovan Mitchell sucked, I loathed to watch it, but that's it for our fantasy purposes. So, Dillon Brooks. Brooks got hit with a one-game […]

Caris LeVert (SG, CLE) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of leagues ANALYSIS: Where Caris LeVert will be playing basketball by the end of next week, nobody knows. That's because the Cavs have a loaded backcourt in which LeVert is probably the odd man out nightly and going forward, something that for someone as talented […]

Royce O'Neale (SF, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues ANALYSIS: It is happening. Again. I'm writing this less than 12 hours from the moment Sams and Woj dropped the Kyrie Bomb: Irving wants a trade out of Brooklyn. Sheesh. That has little to do with Royce O'Neale, of course, and more with […]

Walker Kessler (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Jazz are coming off a loss to the Hawks on Friday in which Walker Kessler had his worst game of the season since at least November. Veteran PG Mike Conley shared some words of wisdom after the game, saying that folks […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 16: Walker Kessler, Chris Duarte, Seth Curry

The deeper a fantasy basketball league, the harder it is to hit a winner with your last few picks. It is also harder to find decent help from the waiver wire if your late-round picks don't do you justice. If you picked up a few stinkers, don't lose hope just yet. I will try to […]