Ayo Dosunmu (PG, CHI): Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 47% of leagues ANALYSIS: We're just hours removed from the very awful news that Lonzo Ball's missing the next four-to-six weeks with a left meniscus injury... only to witness Grayson Allen grabbing and launching Alex Caruso to the ground with a very reckless defensive move on... Read More

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... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 14 - Amir Coffey, Trey Lyles, Kevon Looney, Marvin Bagley III, Dennis Smith Jr.

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... Read More

Brandon Clarke (SF/PF, MEM): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues ANALYSIS: First start for Brandon Clark, first loss of the season for Memphis on Friday. But no, don't give that much if any importance, folks. Steven Adams came back to the rotation but that didn't take the start from Clarke's hands as Adams was eased... Read More

Kyle Anderson (SF/PF, MEM): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 58% of leagues ANALYSIS: There is an ongoing line of thought about Memphis and what they should do with their über-deep roster. Boiling it down to a simple thing, it says that the Grizzlies would be better off moving most of that depth--which is not going... Read More

Hamidou Diallo (SG/SF, DET): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues ANALYSIS: It has taken Hamidou Diallo a bunch of years to getting playable in both the real and the fantasy game, but he's surely gotten there in the past few weeks of play, folks. Diallo, a four-year pro and former Slam Dunk Champ... Read More

Terrence Ross (SG/SF, ORL): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 51% of leagues ANALYSIS: I don't think I'm alone in thinking that Terrence Ross might be one if not the best potential veteran moved ahead of the trade deadline. The thing with Ross is that he's been in Orlando for so long (this is his sixth... Read More

Alec Burks (PG/SG/SF, NYK): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 53% of leagues ANALYSIS: With Derrick Rose injured for a good chunk of games (and still recovering) the Knicks turned to do-it-all man Alec Burks to man the team's point guard position over recently-acquired Kemba Walker, who fell out of the rotation entirely at some point. Then,... Read More

Eric Gordon (SG/SF, HOU): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 30% of leagues ANALYSIS: As is the case with tons of vets, once they get stuck in rebuilding programs and barely used in favor of developing youngsters, one tends to forget about how great they are and all of the goodies they contribute when on the... Read More

Gary Harris (SG/SF, ORL): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of leagues ANALYSIS: You might want to give Gary Harris a few days before committing/rostering him because of what happened on Friday: rookie Jalen Suggs made his comeback to the court after missing all games since Nov. 29. If you remember, Suggs was the starting... Read More

Trey Lyles (PF/C, DET): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of leagues ANALYSIS: It was not long ago that Trey Lyles started a few games for the Pistons--he did so before Christmas (he missed a week after that game) and then a couple more times at the start of January. Lyles has been back on... Read More

Marvin Bagley III (PF/C, SAC): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: Tristan Thompson has been out during the past week but should be back soon. Richaun Holmes is going through conditioning and will also get back to the Kings lineup and make his year-2022 debut in the next few days after missing all... Read More

Justin Holiday (SG/SF, IND): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 25% of leagues ANALYSIS: Justin Holiday has started 28 of his 37 games played to date for the Pacers this season. He's logging more than healthy minutes at 29 MPG on the year and a bit higher 30 when starting which, by the way, he's done... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 13

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

Cody Martin (SG/SF, CHA): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: While his brother Caleb is busy having himself a career-year for the Miami Heat, Cody Martin is having himself a career-year for the Hornets in what must be the first time in a while that the two have played for separate teams.... Read More

Aaron Wiggins (SG/SF, OKC): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Oklahoma City Thunder have been forced into plenty of less-than ideal situations in 2021-22, and while this has mostly resulted in devastating defeats, it has allowed opportunity for players like Aaron Wiggins to make their name on the NBA scene a... Read More

Coby White (PG/SG, CHI): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues ANALYSIS: As much as it sucked for us basketball fans, it probably (?) was good for Coby White to get news about Lonzo potentially missing a good chunk of games back in late December. Ball went on to miss all games from Dec.... Read More

Rudy Gay (SF/PF, UTA): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Jazz had dodged the COVID bullet until they didn't. Utah saw Rudy Gobert and Joe Ingles hit the protocols this week, and that will most probably keep happening to others because the wave is just unstoppable and inevitable. It's not that... Read More

Facundo Campazzo (PG, DEN): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: First things first: Monte Morris is back for the Nuggets and although he came off the pine in his first game back (30 minutes against Utah on Jan. 5) he already started on Friday against the Kings playing 31 minutes at the... Read More

Hamidou Diallo (SG/SF, DET): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 52% of leagues ANALYSIS: Shouts out to Hamidou Diallo and his haters! The first one gets the shout-out for his absolute dominance through the past couple of weeks of play; the latter group for losing faith too soon on a clearly ascending, developing, fantastic player doing it in... Read More

Nicolas Claxton (C, BKN): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: Even with all of the drama surrounding Kyrie Irving's situation, the Nets can't really complain that much about their health bill these days: only Kyrie (because of his home/away availability issues, though) and Joe Harris (ankle surgery) are out and sitting on... Read More

Patty Mills (PG/SG, BKN): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: The best fantasy GMs have always said that leagues aren't won by draft day, but rather through the in-season waiver-wire management. And they could very well be right, considering fools out there are still passing on Patty Mills and his half-Yahoo availability.... Read More

Malik Monk (PG/SG, LAL): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 55% of leagues ANALYSIS: This might not be entirely true, but wins are starting to pile up for the Lakers and that started to happen the minute Malik Monk was put into the starting lineup. As real as it gets. It's been four weeks in a... Read More

Herb Jones (SF/PF, NOLA): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: The New Orleans Pelicans might not be so good, but that also might mean that they are fully committed to developing their young building blocks. It is not that NOLA is throwing the season away while waiting for Zion's comeback (if that... Read More

Eric Bledsoe (PG/SG, LAC): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 45% of leagues ANALYSIS: Seven games played by the Clippers after Christmas, and six starts for Eric Bledsoe in this span (to go with another 36-minute outing as part of the starting five on Dec. 22). Bledsoe has taken full advantage of the Clips woes on... Read More

Alec Burks (PG/SG/SF, NYK): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 55% of leagues ANALYSIS: I guess there are no doubts left regarding where the Knicks are at in their process to contention after what happened in 2021 and the start of 2022: nowhere close to the chip, that's where. The Knicks are a borderline play-in team... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 12

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

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 12

Welcome back to the waiver wire! Need to bolster your flailing team? We've got you covered. Maybe. With this current COVID situation going on, we might have you covered. IDK. Half the guy on this list might end up not playing. We'll see. These recommendations are mainly for 9-cat leagues, but if you play in another... Read More

Malik Monk (PG/SG, LAL): Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 41% of leagues ANALYSIS: Kendrick Nunn and Anthony Davis are the only players out of the Lakers rotation entering 2022. The former has yet to play his first minutes donning Purple and Gold threads, and the latter should stay out for almost a month. Even then,... Read More