Precious Achiuwa (C, TOR) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: It happened recently, but it happened. OG Anunoby got injured in the wrist last Friday facing the Warriors and has not returned to the Raptors lineup yet. This is not expected to be a long-term injury or anything like that, but you […]

T.J. McConnell (PG, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues ANALYSIS: With Tyrese Haliburton still out, T.J. McConnell got his fourth consecutive (and overall) start of the season for the Pacers last Friday against Milwaukee and, as in the prior three, he delivered the fancy goodies: 19 points, nine dimes, six boards, and three […]

Derrick White (PG, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's been nearly a week (January 24) since an injury report about Marcus Smart hit the airwaves speaking of a potential return "in a week or so," which has yet to happen. Smart has missed the last four games and although he […]

De'Anthony Melton (SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 34% of leagues ANALYSIS: Let's all give a round of applause to Tyrese Maxey for his candid concession to our boy De'Anthony Melton. The former got injured in late November, returned on December 30 and started six games, but then communicated to coach Doc Rivers that […]

Norman Powell (SF, LAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 31% of leagues ANALYSIS: Love him or hate him, Norman Powell is amazing. Even through his most recent two-game "slump" in which he failed to crack the 20-FP barrier, Powell still got to score 15 and 10 points while contributing at least two dimes each time, […]

Thomas Bryant (C, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: The return of Anthony Davis finally happened last Wednesday, January 25. AD has yet to start for the Lakers after returning to the rotation after two games played this week, but you can expect that to happen sooner rather than later with […]

Walker Kessler (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 24% of leagues ANALYSIS: Can you imagine a future in which the Gobert Trade is actually the Walker Kessler trade? We might be getting there, folks! Well, maybe not, but bear with me for a minute as WK couldn't be playing better and more surprising basketball […]

Seth Curry (SG, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Brooklyn Nets keep winning games even with Kevin Durant still healing his injury. Ben Simmons got canned from Saturday's lineup against the Knicks and Seth Curry proved more than capable of shooting the ball, something Ben doesn't have a clue what […]

Chris Duarte (SG/SF, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues ANALYSIS: Chris Duarte missed more than a month from early November to mid-December but he came back before Christmas and has stayed healthy even since. After spending his first three weeks after returning on a very precarious role (14 MPG in 11 games), […]

Bruce Brown (SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: After starting three games in a row for the Nuggets, Bruce Brown went back to the pine in Saturday's matchup against Philly while getting to play a very limited 22 minutes through the game. It's the first time since January 5 that […]

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 […]

NextGen Stats 2022 Season Review: Wide Receivers and Tight Ends

Time's up! The 2022 fantasy season is done and gone for good. Whether you play in a redraft league or are part of a dynasty format, the days of sitting at the edge of your couch and biting your nails are over. We have a tough eight-month desert to walk through ahead of us, but […]

Tyus Jones (PG, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: If Tyus Jones is not the best backup point guard in the Association, he must be close to being so. Since we flipped the calendar page to the year 2023 of our Lord, Jones has been absolutely incredible on a per-minute basis, […]

Jericho Sims (C, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Knicks lost Mitchell Robinson for three weeks at the very least when the big man went down injured a few days ago. I wrote about him yesterday, recommending him as an add-and-stash type of WW pickup for those with enough room […]

The Best and Worst Running Backs - Fantasy Football NextGen Season Review

Time's up! The 2022 fantasy season is done and gone for good. Whether you play in a redraft league or are part of a dynasty format, the days of sitting at the edge of your couch and biting your nails are over. We have a tough eight-month desert to walk through ahead of us, but […]

Josh Richardson (PG, SAS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: Josh Richardson has experienced a (slight) bump up in playing time lately, going from playing around 23 MPG before January to 25+ MPG this month. That's all you can ask for while J-Rich stays in San Antonio, though, as the veteran won't […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 15: Tyus Jones, Josh Richardson, 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 […]

Mason Plumlee (C, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 57% of leagues ANALYSIS: With less than three weeks to go before we go through the February 9 trade deadline, the rumor mill is heating up and getting filled with headlines involving The Last Plumlee. It makes all of the sense, obviously, considering the Charlotte Hornets […]

Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of leagues ANALYSIS: While it is true that Tom Thibodeau has moved from an early-season 10-man rotation to a 9-man one since mid-December, there is a deeper truth baked into that: it's really a six-man rotation with three ancillary reserves added to it. And the […]

Mitchell Robinson (C, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 57% of leagues ANALYSIS: You might not understand this post getting written this week after Mitchell Robinson suffered an injury, underwent surgery, and is expected to stay on the shelves for three weeks until he gets re-evaluated. And I'd understand your angle. This is more of a […]

De'Andre Hunter (SF, ATL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Hawks have struggled this season but they seem to have found a solution to their woes, having gone 7-3 in their last 10 games through Saturday and losing one after having won their prior six. While finding De'Andre Hunter in the […]

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (SG, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of leagues ANALYSIS: We're entering that part of the season when folks all the nation over start to realize that maybe, just maybe, the Nuggets are for real and Nikola Jokic inevitably will earn another MVP award. It's happened in the last two seasons and […]

Kyle Anderson (PF, MIN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of leagues ANALYSIS: The last time I checked (Sunday morning), Rudy Gobert was labeled a "game-time decision" in the Wolves' injury report while teammate Karl-Anthony Towns is still expected out until the end of next month, if not more. In other words: Kyle Anderson SZN […]

Norman Powell (SF, LAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 24% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's now been a month of Norman Powell playing nightly for the Los Angeles Clippers after doing so to start the season but going to the shelves between November 29 and December 21. For some reason, though, it feels like most fantasy […]

Trey Murphy III (SF, NOP) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of leagues ANALYSIS: With Zion Williamson out until the end of the month (if not more) and Brandon Ingram getting back for a month now but never actually making it to the court, Trey Murphy III has been one of the main beneficiaries from the […]

Thomas Bryant (C, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 24% of leagues ANALYSIS: Anthony Davis should be inching closer to returning to the hardwood but that's still not happened. In other words, keep starting Thomas Bryant while he keeps getting minutes as a starter on the Lake Show. Bryant's numbers have gone down a bit […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 14

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 […]

Malik Monk (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's been a wild month for Malik Monk's shooting stroke. In the past 30 days and through Saturday, Monk has appeared in 13 games and he's hoisted a total of 137 shots from the field. The outcome: 53 FGM to 84 missed […]

Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of leagues ANALYSIS: I know that you can look at it from both perspectives, but if you don't think this is an extraordinary window of opportunity to grab some shares of Jabari Smith Jr., then you're looking at it from the wrong angle. Of course, […]

Kyle Anderson (SF, MIN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: Now they are improving, now they are not. Now they look good, now they do not. It's the Wolves season for you, just in case. One thing has stayed the same for a bunch of weeks now, though, and that's Kyle Anderson […]