Grayson Allen (SG/SF, MEM): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 16% of leagues ANALYSIS: When it comes to fantasy players, you have three types of them: those putting up ridiculously efficient per-minute numbers on low playing time, those putting up high counting stats thanks to large playing time, and those combining both things. The first group is […]

Furkan Korkmaz (SG/SF, PHI): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of leagues ANALYSIS: Barring a small three-game stretch following the AS break, Furkan Korkmaz has been a below-average performer all year long. He was not playing enough minutes prior to the break (just 18 MPG in 25 games, starting three of them), and he was averaging […]

Facundo Campazzo (PG/SG, DEN): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 15% of leagues ANALYSIS: As much as losing Jamal Murray for the remainder of the 2021 season and most probably for the 2022 campaign sucks, it is also the opportunity other Nuggets have been waiting for and will now get to exploit. One of those benefiting from […]

Reggie Jackson (PG/SG, LAC): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 10-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Clippers added Rajon Rondo to the fold with their lone trade-deadline move, and just a few days/weeks after that they proceeded to lose Pat Beverly for the remainder of the regular season due to injury (he had missed all games from Mar. […]

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 16

It's probably playoff time in your fantasy leagues, so let's just get right into things. You need wins. The waiver wire still exists. Let's make some moves. Our staff at RotoBaller has great insight and daily columns on how to improve your squad and tips to make your team successful, so be sure to check […]

Fantasy Basketball Category Streamers - Week 16

We're well in the weeds now as leagues have started getting into their playoff match ups based on your league settings. Now is the time to ditch your late rounder and utilize a streaming spot to squeeze out as much value as possible. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday all have six or less games on those […]

Fantasy Basketball Deep League Adds: Week 16

The deeper a fantasy 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 help […]

Malachi Flynn (PG, TOR) - Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 34% of leagues ANALYSIS: The G-League Bubble was an excellent platform, particularly in a season with so many health concerns, for the NBA's youngest of talents to make their case for big league playing time, and with the recent absences of Kyle Lowry and Fred VanVleet, Malachi […]

Talen Horton-Tucker (SG/SF, LAL): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: A couple of weeks ago, in advance of hitting the trade deadline, Kyle Lowry was flooding everybody's Twitter TL with talk about a potential move to the Lakers. Ultimately it didn't happen, seemingly because of L.A.'s reluctance to include THT in the deal. […]

Bobby Portis (PF/C, MIL): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 47% of leagues ANALYSIS: You have to laugh at some of the lineups the Bucks have run this season while resting players. Just last Friday, facing Charlotte, they put a starting fully comprised of reserve players, including Bobby Portis. Oh, and speaking of Portis, he's started three […]

Isaiah Stewart (PF/C, DET): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: I have been telling you to add Isaiah Stewart for like two months. Seriously. And you'll still miss on him. Nah, really, go add Stewart to your squad almost no matter your fantasy league's depth, because this rook looks like the real deal […]

Davis Bertans (PF/C, WAS): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: We have to thank Davis Bertans for proving how a contract year can definitely make one perform to higher-than-high levels of play in the NBA. That's what happened with Bertans last season when he had a year for the ages to re-ink his […]

Derrick Favors (PF/C, UTA): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: These posts are meant for all types of leagues, but this one is definitely in the realm of "super-deep fantasy leagues". The Utah Jazz is the best team in the whole NBA, they count their games by wins, will probably end the regular […]

Kenrich Williams (SF/PF, OKC): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Thunder--believe it or not--have found a gem in Aleksej Pokusevski. I know you're laughing at that, but it is the truth and you only have to read my WW-post about Poku this weekend to know more about it. Do you know what […]

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (PG/SG, LAL): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: I bet you won't believe what I'm about to write: KCP was the eight-overall pick from the 2013 draft. For real, folks. The Pistons picked KCP back then above the likes of CJ McCollum, Steven Adams, and a certain Giannis Antetokounmpo. Damn. The thing […]

Grayson Allen (SG/SF, MEM): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's funny how Grayson Allen drove all college basketball fans crazy back in the day due to his antics, how he kept those feelings heating once he became a pro, and how these days he's still driving Grizzlies (yes, his own team) fans […]

Cameron Johnson (SF/PF, PHO): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Suns relied heavily on Cameron Johnson for a stretch earlier this season. It happened back in mid-to-late January when Cam started nine consecutive games averaging a massive 31 MPG for Phoenix. That ended there and Johnson has been back riding the pine […]

Dorian Finney-Smith (SF/PF, DAL): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 21% of leagues ANALYSIS: This is not about DFS, but it is actually about DFS, if you know what I mean. No daily fantasy sports, but definitely Dorian Finney-Smith, that is. DFS has started 40 games this season, which is to say DFS has started all games […]

Aleksej Pokusevski (SF, OKC): Week 16 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 39% of leagues ANALYSIS: It was all laughs... until it was not. And if you're one of those still laughing out loud at Poku, shame on you, mate. This kid was rather bad from the tipoff of the season to Feb. 1, when he last played for […]

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 15

The NBA season just keeps chugging along. How are your fantasy teams doing -- ready to win a title like the 2021 Brooklyn Nets will? Or is your team the Houston Rockets and you're just trying to have some fun the rest of the way? Whatever your situation, the waiver wire is still out there! […]

Fantasy Basketball Deep League Adds: Week 15

The deeper a fantasy 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 help […]

Fantasy Basketball Category Streamers - Week 15

It's been a couple weeks since the NBA trade deadline and we are finally seeing the rotations solidify with all the new faces in their new places. With most fantasy league trade deadlines come and gone, managers will need to rely on the waiver wire to make that last minute push for the playoffs, if […]

Dario Saric (PF/C, PHO): Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues ANALYSIS: Dario Saric has been kind of an underrated player in all of his NBA tenure after arriving in the L all the way back in 2017 as a 12th-pick via the 2014 (yes, that's correct) NBA draft. This season, playing for a contending […]

D.J. Augustin (PG, HOU): Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of leagues ANALYSIS: Imagine operating a machine fully built on faulty pieces and mechanisms. That's what D.J. Augustin is doing to do in Houston. Actually, not only that but also on Houston's second unit. Ugh... Augustin came to Rocket Town when Milwaukee traded for P.J. Tucker in […]

Nickeil Alexander-Walker (SG/SF/PF, NO): Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 42% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Pelicans guard/forward Nickeil Alexander-Walker is a second-year man who has played 87 games in his pro career, and started 10 of those. In fact, if we remove games played from March 20 on, he'd have started just three games of his 80 GP […]

Jae'Sean Tate (SG/SF/PF, HOU): Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of leagues ANALYSIS: The fact that Jae'sean Tate played only 22 minutes on Friday for the Rockets against the Celtics is a true oddity in his year-long game log. Saying that about a WW target is definitely going to sound insane, but here we are with […]

Kelly Olynyk (PF/C, HOU): Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: When Houston force-traded Victor Oladipo away for Miami, one of the pieces they got in return was big-man Kelly Olynyk. Prior to that trade, I had been preaching the Word of Kelly in these posts for a few weeks, as Olynyk kept flying […]

Jaden McDaniels (PF, MIN): Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Wolves tested the Jaden Waters all the way back on Feb. 17, and in 37 minutes McDaniels wasn't that productive, putting up a rather low 11-4-1 line with 3 blocks. Minny proceeded to send him back to the pine. Then, a month later on […]

Rudy Gay (SF/PF, SAS): Week 15 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: For some reason, I still hold an image of Rudy Gay playing for the Grizzlies in the 2012 postseason in my mind. That version of Rudy Gay--the one getting to use 25% or more of that team possessions as a starter--is definitely long gone, […]