Jalen Duren (C, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of leagues ANALYSIS: The youngest player in the NBA, Jalen Duren has finally been given a starting gig in Detroit with the Pistons pretty much waving the white flag just two months into the season. It's now been eight consecutive starts for Duren. Judging by... Read More

Moritz Wagner (PF, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Wagner Brothers have been doing it for more than a while now in Orlando. Entering Christmas, both have shared the court starting games for the Magic on a nightly basis since the start of the month and actually getting back to... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 11: Thomas Bryant, Jalen Duren, Moritz Wagner

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... Read More

John Wall (PG, LAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 43% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Clippers have used Reggie Jackson as their starting point guard all year long and that hasn't surprised anyone, not even backup PG John Wall. Wall signed with the Clips fully knowing the role he'd play for the lesser of the Hollywood... Read More

Marcus Morris (PF, LAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 21% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's been 31 games through Christmas. You can count them by the times Marcus Morris has started for the Clips, as that's been the case all year long. MM has been on the court for the tip-off action each and every time... Read More

Harrison Barnes (SF, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: Harrison Barnes has played at least 30 MP in all December games with the exception of the one kicking off the month back on Dec. 3. In the 20 days from Dec. 4 on (10 games played), Barnes has played some of... Read More

Luguentz Dort (SG, OKC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 27% of leagues ANALYSIS: I guess we have to take advantage of the Oklahoma City Thunder still using every viable player while that lasts. You know the shutdowns are coming in Shai, Dort, Giddey, etc... way, so you gotta hit while the iron is hot. Dort... Read More

Malik Beasley (SG, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 49% of leagues ANALYSIS: We might start thinking about Malik Beasley as a macrowave more than a microwave, ifyouknowwhatimsaying. Beasley keeps playing off the pine for the Jazz, keeps racking up shots in bunches, and most importantly, keeps hitting them with a very strong passion. Beasley, who... Read More

Killian Hayes (PG, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 24% of leagues ANALYSIS: More than 20 starts in a row, let's go!!! Killian Hayes and the Detroit Pistons have shaken hands once and for all and giving the French point guard a long leash is finally paying off. Just in the last six games alone,... Read More

Markelle Fultz (PG, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 21% of leagues ANALYSIS: We had to wait more than a full month to watch Markelle Fultz grace a basketball court, but he finally did it in Orlando's last game of November and he's now played (and started) 13 games on the full year and every... Read More

Mason Plumlee (C, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of leagues ANALYSIS: The worst possible news arrived on Friday evening when Woj reported ongoing discussions between Charlotte and Miles Bridges to sign a deal. Of course, that will have an impact on all Hornets on a usage-rate, field-goal attempt, playing time, etc, etc... basis... Read More

Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of leagues ANALYSIS: Dub-dub to close the pre-Xmas season? Gotta love it! Jabari Smith Jr. put up a 24-10 on the monster Friday slate and went home to rest until we're past December 25. That was great, of course, and here's hoping he can keep... Read More

NextGen Stats - Week 15: QB Breakdowns and Takeaways

Things finally got serious. If you're here, it's only because of one of two reasons: 1) you have followed the series all along and want to keep reading just so you don't feel bad about yourself, or 2) you won your first round of the fantasy playoffs and are still on the lookout for the... Read More

Chigoziem Okonkwo (TE, TEN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Don't look now, but Chigoziem Okonkwo might be the best-positioned tight end to under-the-radar win you the league if you act quickly enough and can grab some shares of the Tennessee main man. Okonkwo has now caught 3+ passes in four consecutive... Read More

Russell Gage (WR, TB) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The Bucs couldn't count on Julio Jones last Sunday but even having the veteran wouldn't have helped them defeat a much superior Bengals team. Russell Gage was the man tasked with stepping up, and truth be told, he couldn't have done more... Read More

Juwan Johnson (TE, NO) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: It took Juwan Johnson six weeks to finally hit lightspeed but he arrived for good back in Week 7 and barring a couple of bumps in the road, he's been the absolute-best tight end of the second and third parts of the... Read More

Zay Jones (WR, JAX) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 55% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The game between the Jaguars and the Cowboys went to OT and that helped, only that much. What I'm saying is that some numbers got a bit boosted, of course, but that doesn't take from the great outcomes put together in regulation... Read More

Demarcus Robinson (WR, BAL) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team PPR Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of Leagues ANALYSIS: The case for adding Demarcus Robinson is predicated on volume and opportunities, not production. I know that is not what you might want to hear this late in the season and with the fantasy stakes higher than ever as we get... Read More

Rashid Shaheed (WR, NO) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of Leagues ANALYSIS: Trusting Rashid Shaheed's fantasy results takes a bit of an effort, but at this point through the season with the fantasy playoffs already here and speaking of WW targets for those managing in deeper leagues... you can definitely do much worse than... Read More

K.J. Osborn (WR, MIN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of Leagues ANALYSIS: We're at a point in the season in which we can change our perception of a player just because he had a single great game. That was K.J. Osborn's case last Saturday when he finished the matchup against Indy with a gaudy... Read More

Donovan Peoples-Jones (WR, CLE) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 64% of Leagues ANALYSIS: This is one of the biggest exceptions I have ever made when writing WW columns. Just look at Donovan Peoples-Jones' rostership in Yahoo and you'll understand. Yes, DPJ is available in fewer than 40% of leagues, but with the playoffs already here and... Read More

Noah Fant (TE, SEA) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of Leagues ANALYSIS: With the Seattle Seahawks using multiple tight ends this season, it is always going to be hard to expect Noah Fant to hit TE1 and even TE2 levels of fantasy play on a weekly basis. You just saw it a week ago... Read More

Brock Purdy (QB, SF) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 2QB Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of Leagues ANALYSIS: In an unexpected turn of events, Jimmy Garoppolo was called up to action no later than in Week 2 with Trey Lance getting injured and done for the 49ers season. Garoppolo was his usual great quarterback until he went down too in Week... Read More

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (SG, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 10

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of leagues ANALYSIS: An under-the-radar player in #thisleague, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope keeps bagging starts in Denver after getting to the Rockies and arriving from Washington this summer. It's been 27 games through Saturday for KCP and 27 starts for the two-guard since becoming an experienced Nugget.... Read More

Moritz Wagner (PF/C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 10

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of leagues ANALYSIS: Moritz Wagner keeps starting games nightly for the Magic and it's been eight in a row through Saturday. The minutes aren't gaudy and have dropped of late, but even then and in games played in December (eight, all of them starting), Mo... Read More

Deni Avdija (SF, WAS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 10

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues ANALYSIS: First of all, I have to admit that I fell for Deni Avdija before he entered the NBA and ahead of the 2020 draft. I was high on him, and now that hype I built around his name if only inside my... Read More

Malik Monk (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 10

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of leagues ANALYSIS: Malik Monk keeps flying too much under the radar with more than two months of play already in the books. Y'all have to fix this, folks. Seriously. Monk is playing off the pine with Kevin Huerter having overtaken him in the rotation... Read More

Kyle Anderson (SF/PF, MIN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 10

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Wolves lost Karl-Anthony Towns all the way back on November 28 and he's yet to return to the court. In the meantime, it's been veteran Kyle "SloMo" Anderson who has taken on starting SF duties for Minny with third-year man Jaden... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 10: Malik Monk, Kyle Anderson, Moritz Wagner

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... Read More

Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 10

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 41% of leagues ANALYSIS: We're reaching the exact point through Jabari Smith's rookie season at which some haters' heads will start to explode, won't they? Smith took time to adapt to the professional game and the high-paced rhythm of the NBA, but he's slowly but surely... Read More