Devin Vassell (SG/SF, SAS): Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of leagues ANALYSIS: Starting or coming off the bench, the truth is Devin Vassell has been a staple in the 2022 Spurs and that shouldn't be changing any time soon. It's been 52 games for the second-year man and 11th 2020 pick, who has started […]

Jonathan Kuminga (SF/PF, GSW): Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: Considering the numbers Jonathan Kuminga put up for the Warriors through the first three months of the season (Dec. to Feb.) and his super-low minutes in his first 39 games (12 MPG), it made sense to keep the rumors up and the […]

Patrick Beverley (PG/SG, MIN): Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of leagues ANALYSIS: So it's now been 42 games for Patrick Beverley with 38 of them boasting Pats on the starting lineup. Can't ask for more, truth be told. Beverley is starting for a team full of top-heavy talent but not much depth, so being […]

Tre Mann (PG/SG, OKC): Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of leagues ANALYSIS: Would you guess who these two players are? Player A: 17 MPG, 7-2-1 per-game line, 19% USG. Player B: 29 MPG, 14-2-2-1 per-game line, 23% USG. Welp, that's the very same Tre Mann, only splitting his season in two stints before and […]

Chuma Okeke (PF, ORL): Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 40% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Magic, as every team around the Association, was forced to rely on Chuma Okeke for a stretch starting in mid-December putting the young man in the starting lineup for 10 of 12 games ending on Jan. 17. The shooting sucked back […]

Hassan Whiteside (C, UTA): Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues ANALYSIS: It will be necessary to keep an eye on Hassan Whiteside's minutes and role going forward given the recent developments taking place in Salt Lake City, but as long as HW keeps getting around 20 minutes of play ROS he should be […]

Alec Burks (PG/SG/SF, NYK): Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 31% of leagues ANALYSIS: Because HC Tom Thibodeau is an odd man, he's started Alec Burks at the point in 22 games already. Alec Burks, who's a career two-guard/wing and has pretty much zero experience at the point guard position. Good for us fantasy GMs, playing […]

Coby White (PG, CHI): Week 19 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 59% of leagues ANALYSIS: I know I'm going a little bit over the limit here with that fifty-nine rostership, but bear with me. First of all, go check your WW before even reading this post, and if Coby White is sitting there smash that ADD button […]

Fantasy Basketball 9-Cat Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18 - Devin Vassell, Ayo Dosunmu, Cam Thomas, Danilo Gallinari

Welcome back to the waiver wire! The trade deadline has definitely shook some stuff up. Let's see how that translates to fantasy basketball. 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. We'll be looking at centers, forwards, […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 18: Danilo Gallinari, Dwight Powell, Kenrich Williams, Rajon Rondo, Deni Avdija

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 […]

Tre Jones: Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 0% of leagues ANALYSIS: At 22-35, the San Antonio Spurs opted for an active trade deadline that saw them collect a solid bounty of draft picks and a few players with uncertain roles for the time being. With Derrick White getting shipped to Boston and the […]

Aleksej Pokusevski: Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of leagues ANALYSIS: The 17-39 Oklahoma City Thunder have had to lean on creativity and optimism for the future in managing their 2021-22 roster. Without the playoffs being in the cards for OKC, many of their budding talents have spent significant time honing their game […]

Mason Plumlee (PF/C, CHA): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 52% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Charlotte Hornets didn't light any fireworks this past trade deadline, but they did a very solid move in acquiring super-sub Montrez Harrell to bolster the big-men rotation while not losing that much going the other way. Montrezl will go from playing […]

Dorian Finney-Smith (SF/PF, DAL): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of leagues ANALYSIS: All eyes will focus on the additions of Spencer Dinwiddie and Davis Bertans in exchange for Kristaps Porzingis. That's reasonable, but only because of the New Toy Bias. As real as it gets, brothers. Dorian Finney-Smith, on the other hand, has kept […]

Herbert Jones (SF/PF, NO): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 56% of leagues ANALYSIS: We will see how things settle in New Orleans after their high-impact trades this past deadline, but for what it's worth and the little we've watched through Friday, things should remain the same (until Zion is back, at least) for rook Herbert […]

Brandon Clarke (PF, MEM): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of leagues ANALYSIS: A lot of rumblings a few weeks back talking about the Memphis Grizzlies being sellers at this deadline turned out to be pure smoke. I mean, it could have made sense given Memphis has a freaking ton of players in a rotation […]

Hamidou Diallo (SG/SF, DET): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: We're clearly not into 30+ minutes-per-game Hamidou Diallo anymore but after a little rough span of games from Jan. 21 to Feb. 3 in which Diallo could only average 20 MPG and even came off the pine twice in seven games, Diallo […]

Hassan Whiteside (C, UTA): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 37% of leagues ANALYSIS: Tons of folks out there disappointed by Utah and its deadline moves, which might be reasonable considering this franchise should be all-in while the Gobert-Mitchell pair is at the peak of its talents. Alas, no substantial moves happened other than adding Nickeil […]

Chuma Okeke (PF, ORL): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 37% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's hard to properly assess Chuma Okeke--or any player, for that matter--if only because of the fact he's part of a completely broken team in the Orlando Magic's. That said, though, we have to acknowledge Okeke as a bona fide above-average player […]

Reggie Bullock (SG/SF, DAL): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: My man Reggie has done it all for the Mavs. Point, two-guard, wing, you name it. Reggie Bullock signed with Dallas this past offseason after a nice regular season with the Knicks last year. Of course, the explosion of Jalen Brunson has […]

Jaxson Hayes (C, NO): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: I always believed in Jaxson Hayes making in this League, and I'm definitely not jumping off this man's train any time soon, folks. Hayes, who had played a ridiculously low 15 MPG from the start of the season to Jan. 29, has […]

JaVale McGee (C, PHO): Week 18 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues ANALYSIS: See, JaVale McGee is definitely not going to be the man you remember when you think of the current iteration of the Suns in five or ten years. It makes sense, considering JVMG is playing a super low 16 MPG on the […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 17: Isaac Okoro, Jaxson Hayes, Doug McDermott, Josh Richardson, Austin Rivers

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 9-Cat Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17 - Reggie Bullock, Darius Bazley, Javonte Green, Taurean Prince, Damian Jones

Welcome back to the waiver wire! Need to bolster your flailing team? We've got you covered. Maybe. We'll see. 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. We'll be looking at centers, forwards, and guards whose low rostership […]

Duncan Robinson (SG/SF, MIA): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 53% of leagues ANALYSIS: Five games. That's the count. That's the count of matches D-Rob hasn't started (while he played, I mean) for the Heat this season, and it only happened in a 10-day span in which he was coming off a week-long absence. Robinson is […]

Kevin Huerter (SG, ATL): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of leagues ANALYSIS: Kevin Huerter missed ample time from Dec. 17 to Jan. 3 but once he was back for good he's not surrendered the starting gig more than two games in a row--and that happened all the way back before mid-January. It's now been […]

Nicolas Batum (SG/SF, LAC): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 24% of leagues ANALYSIS: For someone past his peak, Nicolas Batum keeps racking up starts on a nightly basis in this barren Clips squad. The Clippers might opt to make some moves and sell the house come trade-deadline day, and we'll see how that goes, but […]

Chuma Okeke (PF, ORL): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues ANALYSIS: After a month of play in which Chuma Okeke started 10 of 12 games (from mid-December to mid-January), the Magic sent Okeke back to the pine and trusted him to man a second-unit leading role. So far, so good for the second-year […]

Gary Harris (SG/SF, ORL): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: If you go check Gary Harris' fantasy profile you're going to think he's been a rather putrid option all season long. Makes sense on an FP/min basis considering Harris started every game (29 of them) from Nov. 20 to Jan. 26 while […]