Jalen Suggs (PG, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 62% of leagues ANALYSIS: Moment of silence for the haters. (...) Alright, that's it. The Orlando Magic might have taken a couple of huge swings when it comes to drafting prospects in the past two editions of the Draft. In reverse order, it was kinda surprising to […]

Kelly Olynyk (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: What if we were all wrong and the Utah Jazz made the Mitchell trade on purpose to bolster the roster on all fronts and make a play-in/postseason run? Uh!? I don't know about that, but I know one little thing: Kelly Olynyk […]

Lonnie Walker IV (SF, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Los Angeles Lakers seemed to have gotten things right, but at the end of the day it looks like they quite didn't do that much. That's why they only won a fluky game against the Nuggets, barely got another W with […]

Jarred Vanderbilt (PF, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of leagues ANALYSIS: What if we were all wrong and the Utah Jazz made the Mitchell trade on purpose to bolster the roster on all fronts and make a play-in/postseason run? Uh!? I don't know about that, but I know one little thing: Jarred Vanderbilt […]

Nicolas Claxton (C, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 57% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Nets might be in the middle of a very serious discombabulation, but at least they know they can count of 1) Kevin Durant putting on nightly shows and 2) a steady big man in young Nicolas Claxton. That's correct. Claxton is, […]

Isaiah Stewart (C, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: To some extent, you can kind of understand the concerns. We're talking about Detroit basketball. We're talking about a 6-8 man playing center nightly. We're talking about a super young 21-year-old player. That's all good. What is absolutely unreasonable and drives me mad […]

Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: Perhaps the best thing going in Jabari Smith's way these days when it comes to keeping considering him a viable fantasy player is just his status in the NBA as a rookie. Other than that, I have to concede that he's been […]

Tyus Jones (PG, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of leagues ANALYSIS: Tyus Jones became a fantasy darling last season backing up Ja Morant. He also became a true sought-after player in the NBA offseason before he decided to re-ink his deal with the Grizzlies to stay in Memphis as Ja's understudy. It made sense […]

Max Strus (SG/SF, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: Nobody in the NBA has played more minutes than Max Strus through Saturday while starting fewer than six games. Strus has logged 217 MP already in his seven games (just one start) and the closest player to that tally on one-or-no starts is […]

Jaylen Nowell (SG, MIN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: Jaylen Nowell had his worst game of the early season against the Lakers of all teams last Friday. Even then, though, he put up an across-the-board contribution packing the stat line to the tune of 6 points, 5 boards, 5 dimes, a steal, […]

Nick Richards (C, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: Nick Richards got drafted by the Pelicans in the summer of 2020 but he only played 430 total minutes in his first two seasons (already with the Hornets after a draft-day trade) while appearing in 68 games and starting five of those. We're […]

Bol Bol (PF/C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of leagues ANALYSIS: Is it finally happening? It is, right? Right? Bol Bol, who Orlando inked to a one-year deal this past summer, has appeared in all six games played by the Magic this season while also starting in one of those. The return has been rather […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 3: Bol Bol, Max Strus, Jaylen Nowell

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 […]

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3 Include Bones Hyland, Marcus Morris, Andre Drummond, Jalen McDaniels

Welcome back to RotoBaller's weekly fantasy basketball waiver wire column and schedule breakdown. How's the start of this season treating your fantasy rosters? Do you already need some help? These recommendations are mainly for 9-cat leagues, but if you play in another format, there's a good chance that the information here can still help you. […]

Brook Lopez (C, MIL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of leagues ANALYSIS:  We're definitely not back to the bad back when it comes to Brook Lopez, am I right? Lopez has played at least 28 minutes in all five games he's been involved in this season--which is to say in all games the Bucks have […]

Aaron Gordon (PF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 56% of leagues ANALYSIS: If there is anything defining the current era of NBA play that's Kawhi's favorite term: load management. Good for Aaron Gordon, he's had his health issues here and there but never a true concerning problems such as teammates Michael Porter Jr. and Jamaal Murray. […]

Monte Morris (PG, WAS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 58% of leagues ANALYSIS: Five games for the Wiz entering Sunday's matchup with Boston boasting a positive 3-2 record through Saturday. Not bad considering the .427 winning ways of yesteryear. The Wizards added Monte Morris to the fold this offseason in a trade with the Nuggets that […]

Santi Aldama (SF/PF, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 23% of leagues ANALYSIS: It was unsustainable to start with so it makes sense to see Santi Aldama slowly but surely dropping his nonsensical levels of production as the games have kept coming. That said, Aldama is still entrenched into Memphis' starting lineups manning the PF position […]

Andre Drummond (C, CHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues ANALYSIS:  It is a shame that we don't get to enjoy Drummond in full these days, even more considering the man is still to turn 30 years of age and in the middle of his prime. It is what it is for an old-school […]

Steven Adams (C, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS:  We're about to hit a 50% rostership when it comes to Steven Adams so make sure you grab some shares before it's too late! Adams keep playing games, starting them, and producing great lines nightly with the odd blunder--nothing to worry about that […]

Ayo Dosunmu (PG, CHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 35% of leagues ANALYSIS: Ayo Dosunmu missed Saturday's loss to the 76ers after getting concussed two days ago "feeling discomfort in his neck and upper back, and just (is having) a really hard time mobility-wise turning and moving his neck," according to coach Billy Donovan. I wouldn't […]

Jarred Vanderbilt (PF/C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 34% of leagues ANALYSIS: It is all jokes until it is not. Are these Jazz anything? 5-2 after more than a week of play and a 124-123 victory over the Grizzlies on Saturday? I mean, something has to eventually give for Utah to land Wemby, right? Right? For now, […]

Isaiah Stewart (C, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 21% of leagues ANALYSIS: For a third-year man, undersized, starting games nightly, and doing so for a reasonably bad team like the Pistons still are... what Isaiah Stewart is offering nightly is way beyond what one would expect from the young Beef Stew. Stewart has two double-double […]

Dennis Smith Jr. (PG/SG, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 42% of leagues ANALYSIS: What is Adam Silver waiting for to create a Comeback Player of the Season award? It might not make much sense for him to do that this year, though, as we're barely one week into the season but we could very well declare […]

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2 Include Nicolas Claxton, Santi Aldama, Kelly Olynyk, Kevin Huerter, Terrence Ross

Welcome back to RotoBaller's weekly fantasy basketball waiver wire column and schedule breakdown. How's the start of this season treating your fantasy rosters? Do you already need some help? These recommendations are mainly for 9-cat leagues, but if you play in another format, there's a good chance that the information here can still help you. […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 2: Jarred Vanderbilt, Dennis Smith, Lonnie Walker

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 […]

Terrence Ross (SG/SF, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of leagues ANALYSIS: Three games, three starts, three nights of ass-whooping for the veteran Terrence Ross but not the Orlando Magic as a whole--cue the 0-3 record through Sunday. I like what I've seen coming from Disneyworld, but of course, the Magic are going to ultimately […]

Dennis Smith Jr. (PG/SG, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 40% of leagues ANALYSIS: Dennis Smith Jr. has finally found his true call in Charlotte after spending years roaming the nation playing for different teams without much success while doing it. Jokes aside, DSJ has been sublime, for real. Of course, this is all related to LaMelo […]

Lonnie Walker IV (SG/SF, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 2

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Lakers are a mess but that's hardly news these days. I mean, it's been like this for two seasons running, so there is nothing surprising in finding the Lake Show not putting on much of one. Lonnie Walker IV got signed for […]