Kelly Oubre Jr. (SF/PF, CHA): Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 56% of leagues ANALYSIS: Second week in a row I'm breaking the rostership-law thanks the Wave Papi. Makes sense, though. Kelly Oubre Jr. has been a freakish revelation coming off the pine for the Hornets, and so should he be doing for you in pretty much... Read More

Anfernee Simons (PG/SG, POR): Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: The best Anfernee since Penny Hardaway. Anfernee Simons is balling for the Blazers this season yet he's somehow heavily flying under the radar of most fantasy GMs out there. Damn. I could have understood that in years past if only because of... Read More

Patty Mills (PG/SG, BKN): Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues ANALYSIS: As long as Kyrie Irving remains unvaccinated and thus ineligible to play for the Nets (or he gets traded away in exchange for another point guard), Patty Mills will stay as the main beneficiary of Irving stubborn ways. And things have gotten... Read More

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (PG/SG, WAS): Week 7 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of leagues ANALYSIS: Not a single game. Not a single one has KCP missed this season when it comes to being part of the Wiz Kiz starting lineup, manning the SF slot 19 times already to kick the year off. Quarter of a season in... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 6: Bruce Brown, Immanuel Quickley, Brandon Clarke

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 6

Welcome back to the waiver wire! Need to bolster your flailing team? We've got you covered. 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 and upside... Read More

Charles Bassey (C, PHI): Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 0% of leagues ANALYSIS: With the many absences that the Philadelphia 76ers have had to endure so far, windows of opportunity have been open at times for younger Sixers like Isaiah Joe, Paul Reed, and (most recently) rookie Charles Bassey. The 53rd overall pick in the... Read More

Patty Mills (PG/SG, BKN): Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 30% of leagues ANALYSIS: Three consecutive starts for Patty Mills in the past few days and four consecutive games above 30 minutes of playing time for the Australian? Gotta love that. Mills can't carry a higher value than he's doing right now playing shooting guard next... Read More

Duncan Robinson (SG/SF, MIA): Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 59% of leagues ANALYSIS: A lot of stuff going on here, so let's break it down a bit so you get the proper information to assess this add/pass decision. I'm writing this post just hours after Miami played against Washington on Saturday and Duncan Robinson had... Read More

Kelly Oubre Jr. (SF/PF, CHA): Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 58% of leagues ANALYSIS: The 50-percent self-imposed threshold gets absolutely blasted by Kelly Oubre Jr.'s near-60% mark, but you'll surely be thanking me later if you go looking for the man and find him setting in your league's WW this weekend. You see KOJ available, you... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 5: Naz Reid, JaVale McGee, Dwight Powell, Alec Burks

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

Frank Kaminsky (C, PHO): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 35% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Tank named Frank is most definitely not the guy predestined to win you the league, no matter the format. That said, though, Kaminsky is doing his best to hand his fantasy GMs some goodies on a daily basis. Not a single... Read More

Furkan Korkmaz (SG/SF, PHI): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Sixers got absolutely demolished by COVID-19 related stuff during the past few days/week with all of Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris, and Matisse Thybulle missing time. Enter your winner of the season so far precisely because of that, guard/forward/wing Furkan Korkmaz, he... Read More

Alex Caruso (PG/SG, CHI): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: I don't Alex Caruso is ever going to reach some unreasonably high rostership in any sort of fantasy league. That's obviously because of 1) his role as a bench player in a loaded Chicago offense, 2) his own limited offensive numbers and... Read More

Otto Porter Jr. (SF/PF, GSW): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of leagues ANALYSIS: Before we get this thing started let me warn you about Otto Porter Jr.'s health and the potential of him missing games or being limited at least for the next few days. Just check an eye on his status as he got... Read More

Naz Reid (C, MIN): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: Other than recently-acquired Taurean Prince, no other meaningful Wolves' big man is even 24 years old. That, of course, includes Naz Reid. And Reid, of course, has been a super-sub for Minny this season as he's playing really low minutes on a... Read More

Gary Payton II (PG/SG, GSW): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of leagues ANALYSIS: The upside is limited, and the availability/playing time will definitely go down as the season grows older. But hey, we have reached a point where GP2 is probably at the peak of his talents and fantasy value so it makes sense to... Read More

Eric Bledsoe (PG/SG, LAC): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of leagues ANALYSIS: In any other season, or in an injury-disabled sort of 2K-simulated league, Eric Bledsoe would probably be coming off the pine for the L.A. Clippers. Not this season, though, and not for the Kawhi-less Clips. Not only is Bledsoe starting games at... Read More

Derrick Rose (PG/SG, NYK): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 58% of leagues ANALYSIS: Derrick Rose and Tom Thibodeau, match made in heaven. I know the rostership is nearing 60% and that's a no-no for the WW column, but I just couldn't resist the urge. Rose started the season nicely, then came crashing down to Earth... Read More

Devin Vassell (SG/SF, SAS): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Spurs are definitely rebuilding. It doesn't take a genius to decipher their current operating algorithm. Just look at Devin Vassell's jump up in minutes per game (from 17 to 26) from last season to this his second one, and you'll get... Read More

Matisse Thybulle (SG/SF, PHI): Week 5 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 47% of leagues ANALYSIS: As ridiculous (but gratifying) as it is, nobody seems to be discussing anything related to the infamous COVID-19 virus these days when it comes to it in relation to the Association. About damn time, man. That doesn't mean COVID has kept from... Read More

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 4

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

Malik Beasley (PG/SG, MIN): Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of leagues ANALYSIS: The arrival of Anthony Edwards last season surely brought Malik Beasley's upside down a notch, and there is nothing wrong about that. Edwards has delivered goodies steadily for the Wolves, keeps improving, and there is nothing stopping Ant the Man. But Malik... Read More

Pat Connaughton (SG/SF, MIL): Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 26% of leagues ANALYSIS: With Donte DiVincenzo still to come back from injury this season, and Khris Middleton out of the lineup since Oct. 30, it's been quite a busy start to the year for Pat Connaughton. Patty has started the last three games and six... Read More

Anfernee Simons (PG/SG, POR): Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 32% of leagues ANALYSIS: Just when you thought there could be no more noise surrounding Damian Lillard--and Portland by extension--the point guard went on and kicked the year off wildly underperforming to date. The trade rumors will never stop, obviously, but now that Lillard is also... Read More

Hassan Whiteside (C, UTA): Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 40% of leagues ANALYSIS: See, Rudy Gobert hasn't missed more than four games in any of the past three years. He's gone on to play in the All-Star on back-to-back campaigns in 2020 and 2021. He's averaged 31+ MPG in the last six full seasons--and running.... Read More

Derrick Rose (PG/SG, NYK): Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 45% of leagues ANALYSIS: I'm writing this post just hours after watching Derrick Rose put together his best game of the 2021 season: 23 points, 8 rebounds, 4 dimes, 2 steals, and a marvelous 55.6% shooting on a season-high 18 FGA while going 1-for-1 at the... Read More

Grayson Allen (SG/SF, MIL): Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 41% of leagues ANALYSIS: Are we sure Giannis is the best player on the Bucks roster? Seriously? Obviously, that's obvious. What I mean by that is that nobody is touching Giannis, nor Khris Middleton, nor Jrue Holiday for that matter either, but what about Grayson Allen's... Read More

LaMarcus Aldridge (PF/C, BKN): Week 4 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: For what is worth, LaMarcus Aldridge is flying completely under the radar to kick the year off and that should definitely not be the case. For some reason, Brooklyn keeps starting Blake Griffin while deploying LMA off the pine. I mean, it's working wonders... Read More