Derrick White (PG, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 57% of leagues ANALYSIS: First and foremost, Marcus Smart doesn't seem to be quite ready to make his return to the court yet. Even then, though, and with the All-Star break right around the corner at the end of this week, it wouldn't make much sense to […]

Kenyon Martin Jr. (SF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: Wath a wild season it's been for the Houston Rockets and Kenyon Martin Jr. He was on the fringe of making the team at the start of the season but ultimately stayed put and played a reasonably important part in it. Then […]

Max Strus (SF, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: Just taking the quickest of glimpses at Max Strus' stat line will tell you all you need to know about him. Still in doubt? Well, it's very simple: spot-up shooter with little upside outside of that but murderous long-range shooting tendencies. Strus […]

Malik Monk (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 12% of leagues ANALYSIS: After going through a rough spell just a few weeks ago to start the 2023 calendar year, Malik Monk is now back as a prominent part of the Kings' rotation. Monk played fewer than 20 minutes in 10 of the 14 games […]

Onyeka Okongwu (C, ATL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: The first piece of the trade deadline domino fell on Sunday when Kyrie Irving was sent to Dallas in the first winter blockbuster. That has nothing to do with Atlanta, of course, but it might be a sign of things to come--mostly […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 17: Kenyon Martin Jr., Malik Monk, Immanuel Quickley

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 17 Include Cam Thomas, Malik Monk, Aaron Nesmith, Larry Nance Jr.

Welcome back to RotoBaller's weekly fantasy basketball waiver wire column and schedule breakdown. How's this season going for you? Need some help with your team? Let's get you some, though don't forget that the trade deadline could really shake things up. The NBA season just keeps on chugging along, and so does the fantasy basketball […]

Derrick White (PG, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 50% of leagues ANALYSIS: We haven't had an update on Marcus Smart's health/return in a few days going back to January 31 when we heard about him seeing "small improvements." The last IR says he's expected back on February 8, but even if that's the case, […]

Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 19% of leagues ANALYSIS: With Tom Thibodeau at the Knicks' helm, it will never happen, but there are growing voices calling for RJ Barrett's benching in favor of Immanuel Quickley. Of course, and again, that will never happen in New York as that'd mean sending the […]

Bruce Brown (SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 26% of leagues ANALYSIS: As we enter the trade deadline week, all whispers are pointing toward Denver trading Bones Hyland in the event they decide to move someone elsewhere instead of veteran Bruce Brown. Brown has moved in and out of the starting five this season […]

Malik Beasley (SG, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of leagues ANALYSIS: Malik Beasley's appeal has gone down a bit after he had a couple of impressive months to start the season in Utah as the main off-the-pine heater. He averaged around 24 FPPG from October 19 to December 19 and he's now at […]

De'Anthony Melton (SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 36% of leagues ANALYSIS: De'Anthony Melton keeps starting games for the Sixers, keeps putting up numbers, and keeps getting wildly under-rostered percentages for someone contributing as much as he does all across the stat sheet. Barring a two-game skid in which Melton didn't start by mid-January, […]

Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of leagues ANALYSIS: Down, up, and now back down. That's the rookie season of Jabari Smith Jr. in a nutshell, but that also means that he can do it while going through the growing pains as a freshman in a league full of already-grown men. The positive […]

Dillon Brooks (SG/SF, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 54% of leagues ANALYSIS: Let's not focus on the wrong things when discussing Dillon Brooks, folks. That little thing he did to Donovan Mitchell sucked, I loathed to watch it, but that's it for our fantasy purposes. So, Dillon Brooks. Brooks got hit with a one-game […]

Caris LeVert (SG, CLE) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 44% of leagues ANALYSIS: Where Caris LeVert will be playing basketball by the end of next week, nobody knows. That's because the Cavs have a loaded backcourt in which LeVert is probably the odd man out nightly and going forward, something that for someone as talented […]

Royce O'Neale (SF, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues ANALYSIS: It is happening. Again. I'm writing this less than 12 hours from the moment Sams and Woj dropped the Kyrie Bomb: Irving wants a trade out of Brooklyn. Sheesh. That has little to do with Royce O'Neale, of course, and more with […]

Walker Kessler (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 17

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Jazz are coming off a loss to the Hawks on Friday in which Walker Kessler had his worst game of the season since at least November. Veteran PG Mike Conley shared some words of wisdom after the game, saying that folks […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 16: Walker Kessler, Chris Duarte, Seth Curry

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 16 Include Chris Duarte, Rui Hachimura, Deni Avdija, Larry Nance Jr.

Welcome back to RotoBaller's weekly fantasy basketball waiver wire column and schedule breakdown. How's this season going for you? Need some help with your team? Let's get you some! The NBA season just keeps on chugging along, and so does the fantasy basketball season. If you need to bolster your roster or turn around a […]

Precious Achiuwa (C, TOR) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: It happened recently, but it happened. OG Anunoby got injured in the wrist last Friday facing the Warriors and has not returned to the Raptors lineup yet. This is not expected to be a long-term injury or anything like that, but you […]

T.J. McConnell (PG, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 28% of leagues ANALYSIS: With Tyrese Haliburton still out, T.J. McConnell got his fourth consecutive (and overall) start of the season for the Pacers last Friday against Milwaukee and, as in the prior three, he delivered the fancy goodies: 19 points, nine dimes, six boards, and three […]

Derrick White (PG, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: It's been nearly a week (January 24) since an injury report about Marcus Smart hit the airwaves speaking of a potential return "in a week or so," which has yet to happen. Smart has missed the last four games and although he […]

De'Anthony Melton (SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 34% of leagues ANALYSIS: Let's all give a round of applause to Tyrese Maxey for his candid concession to our boy De'Anthony Melton. The former got injured in late November, returned on December 30 and started six games, but then communicated to coach Doc Rivers that […]

Norman Powell (SF, LAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 31% of leagues ANALYSIS: Love him or hate him, Norman Powell is amazing. Even through his most recent two-game "slump" in which he failed to crack the 20-FP barrier, Powell still got to score 15 and 10 points while contributing at least two dimes each time, […]

Thomas Bryant (C, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: The return of Anthony Davis finally happened last Wednesday, January 25. AD has yet to start for the Lakers after returning to the rotation after two games played this week, but you can expect that to happen sooner rather than later with […]

Walker Kessler (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 24% of leagues ANALYSIS: Can you imagine a future in which the Gobert Trade is actually the Walker Kessler trade? We might be getting there, folks! Well, maybe not, but bear with me for a minute as WK couldn't be playing better and more surprising basketball […]

Seth Curry (SG, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Brooklyn Nets keep winning games even with Kevin Durant still healing his injury. Ben Simmons got canned from Saturday's lineup against the Knicks and Seth Curry proved more than capable of shooting the ball, something Ben doesn't have a clue what […]

Chris Duarte (SG/SF, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues ANALYSIS: Chris Duarte missed more than a month from early November to mid-December but he came back before Christmas and has stayed healthy even since. After spending his first three weeks after returning on a very precarious role (14 MPG in 11 games), […]

Bruce Brown (SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 16

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues ANALYSIS: After starting three games in a row for the Nuggets, Bruce Brown went back to the pine in Saturday's matchup against Philly while getting to play a very limited 22 minutes through the game. It's the first time since January 5 that […]