New Orleans Pelicans Choose Nickeil Alexander-Walker

After acquiring the pick in a trade with the Atlanta Hawks, the New Orleans Pelicans have selected Virginia Tech guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker with the 17th pick in the NBA Draft. Alexander-Walker scored 16.2 points per game last season while shooting 53.7 percent from the floor. He made 37.4 percent of his three-pointers. Alexander-Walker fits well […]

Miami Heat Draft Tyler Herro

With the 13th pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, the Miami Heat have selected Kentucky guard Tyler Herro. Herro’s NBA role should be as an off-ball shooter, as he can shoot from three and from the midrange. While his long range shooting wasn’t actually that stellar in his one season as a Wildcat, he has […]

Washington Wizards Draft Rui Hachimura

With the ninth pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, the Washington Wizards have drafted Gonzaga forward Rui Hachimura. With Gonzaga, Hachimura was a strong offensive option near the basket and in the mid-range, but there are questions about if he can do more offensively, especially in terms of stretching his game out to the perimeter. […]

Cleveland Cavaliers Select Darius Garland

The Cleveland Cavaliers have drafted Vanderbilt point guard Darius Garland with the fifth pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. This is the second year in a row that the Cavaliers have gone point guard, but expect Cleveland to play both Garland and last year’s pick, Collin Sexton, together in the backcourt. Garland played in just […]

Ja Morant Drafted By Memphis Grizzlies

By trading away Mike Conley, the Memphis Grizzlies opened the door to make Murray State point guard Ja Morant their point guard of the future, selecting him with the second pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. Morant dazzled NBA scouts and fans with a triple-double during the NCAA Tournament, the first one in the men’s […]

Zion Williamson Chosen By Pelicans With First Pick In Draft

On Thursday, the New Orleans Pelicans made official what had been expected since the lottery, taking Duke forward Zion Williamson with the first pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. He’ll join a revamped Pelicans team that no longer features their former star, Anthony Davis, and instead has former Lakers Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram. Williamson […]

T.J. Warren Traded To Indiana

The Phoenix Suns have traded T.J. Warren and the 32nd pick in this year's NBA Draft to the Indiana Pacers in exchange for cash considerations. In Warren, the Pacers add a young player who averaged 18 points per game last year while shooting 42.8 percent on 4.2 three-point attempts per game. Warren can be a […]

Early 2019 Breakouts - Tight End

As the 2019 NFL season and all the fantasy football-related stuff that comes with it approaches, you're going to eventually have to wade into the muck that is the tight end position. Especially with the new prevalence of tight end premium leagues, there are lot of guys who don't look great on the surface, but […]

Grayson Allen Traded To Memphis

The Memphis Grizzlies have finally traded their long-time point guard, Mike Conley, sending him to Utah in exchange for Grayson Allen, Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver and a pair of first-round picks. Allen is the big headliner of the deal for the Grizzlies, as the other two players are likely to play smaller roles or, in Korver's […]

Mike Conley Traded To Utah

On Wednesday, the Utah Jazz acquired point guard Mike Conley from the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Grayson Allen, Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver and a pair of first-round draft picks. While Conley's never made an All-Star team, he's been an excellent point guard for Memphis for years and is coming off a 2018-19 season in which […]

Fantasy Spin: 2019 NBA Mock Draft (Part 3)

Welcome to the final part of RotoBaller's 2019 NBA mock draft, where I'll be looking at the non-lottery part of the first round. Things get murkier here and paths to immediate NBA fantasy basketball impact get tough to judge, but there should still be some solid players in the mix who can help you in […]

Fantasy Spin: 2019 NBA Mock Draft (Part 2)

In the first part of this mock draft, I looked in depth at the (possible) top five picks in this year's NBA Draft. In this one, we'll look at the rest of this year's lottery, picks six through 14. These players don't have the same star power and high expectations that the top five picks […]

WNBA Daily Fantasy Lineup Picks (6/16/19): WNBA DFS Advice for DraftKings and FanDuel

Happy Father's Day! Are you taking your dad to a WNBA game today? I'm pretty sure I saw that the Sun have some pretty good ticket specials today, so if you're in the Connecticut area, that sounds like a good plan. And if you aren't...well, you can always celebrate today by trying to win some […]

Rookie Roulette - Which TE Should Go First in Rookie Drafts?

Noah Fant, tight end out of Iowa. T.J. Hockenson, tight end out of Iowa. Yes, one of these two former Hawkeyes should be the first tight end taken in rookie drafts this year. While there are some other interesting prospects at the position, your decision if you're in need of a tight end in a […]

Fantasy Spin: The Anthony Davis Trade

Well, it finally happened. Anthony Davis has been traded. After months of speculation and the deal not getting done before the trade deadline because the Pelicans reportedly wanted to wait to see what the Boston Celtics would offer in the Summer, Davis has been traded...to the exact team that he's been rumored to since this […]

Fantasy Spin: 2019 NBA Mock Draft (Part 1)

Welcome back to RotoBaller's NBA coverage! The NBA Draft is almost here, so we're here to help you make sense of it and give you an early edge on your fantasy competitors for the 2019-2020 season. In addition to this mock draft, stick around RotoBaller after the draft to see our reactions to the picks […]

WNBA Daily Fantasy Lineup Picks (6/14/19): WNBA DFS Advice for DraftKings and FanDuel

Happy Flag Day, and also happy my birthday, and also happy four-game WNBA slate! It's a big day, and we've got two-thirds of the league playing. There should be some big defensive battles -- the Sun visiting the Lynx??? -- and also a rematch of last Sunday's Aces/Liberty game that gave New York their first […]

Rookie Roulette - Which QB Goes After Kyler Murray in Dynasty Drafts?

Asking the question "which first-year quarterback should go first in rookie drafts" is, basically, a bad question. You don't need to read a 1000 word piece from me about why to pick Kyler Murray over the other quarterbacks in this class. No way. Kyler should be the first quarterback off the board in 100 percent […]

Rookie Roulette - Which First-Year RB is #1 in Rookie Drafts?

This year's rookie class didn't feature an undisputed 1.01 player like 2018 did with Penn State running back Saquon Barkley, who was a unique talent who led to people selling their entire dynasty teams and possibly their firstborn child to draft him. That paid off, but this year doesn't feature someone you should go all […]

WNBA Daily Fantasy Lineup Picks (6/11/19): WNBA DFS Advice for DraftKings and FanDuel

It seems like Tuesday slates are always pretty light in the WNBA, but we've got three games for you on Tuesday, including a meeting between a pair of pretty bad perimeter defense teams in Phoenix and Chicago. I'm also avoiding the meeting between two good defensive teams in Washington and Connecticut if possible, though Jonquel […]

WNBA Daily Fantasy Lineup Picks (6/6/19): WNBA DFS Advice for DraftKings and FanDuel

Welcome to RotoBaller's WNBA DFS coverage. We're in the third week of the WNBA season and it's been a fun start, with players like Lynx rookie Napheesa Collier jumping out of the gate strong. Tonight, we've got three games on the docket, including an exciting Sparks/Sun matchup. But today's also a day where some of […]

Let It Go! Players We Need to Finally Drop in Dynasty

If there's one thing I'm guilty of in fantasy football, it's holding onto players in dynasty leagues way, way beyond the point where I should have just dropped them. Sometimes, I'm rewarded by being able to start Wendell Smallwood during a time where the rest of my team is injured, but usually the result is […]

Dynasty Price Check - Mike Gesicki

Last year, the Miami Dolphins spent a second-round pick on Penn State tight end Mike Gesicki. Tight end had long been a rough position for the Dolphins, as the team hasn't had a player at the position hit the 500-yard mark since Charles Clay in 2014, but the move to pick Gesicki seemed like a […]

Dynasty Price Check - Dede Westbrook

Last year, the Jacksonville Jaguars were a mess offensively, with the quarterback combination of Blake Bortles and Cody Kessler combining to throw for just 15 touchdowns to go along with 13 interceptions. Bortles, who'd been a guy fantasy owners could count on for solid production in the past, bombed badly enough that the team benched […]

Notable UDFAs to Watch in Dynasty

Last year, no one was talking about Phillip Lindsay even as late as August. With Royce Freeman drafted by the Broncos and dominating a lot of the dynasty rookie draft discussion, Lindsay flew so under the radar that he went undrafted in our staff league's rookie draft. Lindsay went on to rush for 1,000 yards, […]

Rookie Spotlight - Mecole Hardman

Kansas City Chiefs rookie wide receiver Mecole Hardman is, perhaps, the most difficult rookie receiver to value right now, because his immediate fantasy potential is almost entirely dependent on whether or not the NFL suspends Tyreek Hill and, if they do, on how long that suspension is. Hardman is an interesting prospect, a speedster who […]

Veteran Wide Receivers Set to Lose Targets in 2019

It's a yearly cycle: new players enter the league and older players are either pushed out or start down a path that eventually leads to them being pushed out. No one -- not even the Larry Fitzgeralds of the world -- can play forever. Speaking of Larry Fitzgerald, let's turn to the subject of this […]

Late-Round Rookie WRs to Target in Dynasty Drafts

With the NFL Draft behind us, it's rookie draft season for dynasty owners. You probably have some good ideas of who you'll be taking early in those drafts, but what about in the later rounds? Who's your fourth-round rookie pick going to be? How will you ever make sense of the guys available that late? […]

Dynasty Tiered Rankings and Analysis (Quarterbacks)

We've finished our post-draft dynasty rankings here at RotoBaller, which means that it's time to look at those rankings by tier and discuss them. Youth rules the day in these rankings, with three of our top four quarterbacks entering their second or third seasons. But not every dynasty owner is planning for the future, so […]

Will Arizona's New Offense Rise Like a Phoenix?

I think that there are times when we fantasy football writers need to own up to our past mistakes. I'm not talking about small things like "telling someone the wrong start/sit" or "being wrong about a sleeper pick," because those things happen. No, I mean when we get things very wrong, as I did back […]