AJ Griffin (SF, ATL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 1% of leagues ANALYSIS: AJ Griffin was an All-ACC Freshman Team selection in his lone season as a Duke Blue Devil last year, and averaged 10.4 points shooting 44.7% from three and 79.2% from the FT line. The 6'6, 225-lb. prospect of New York state was […]

Shake Milton (PG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: Tyrese Maxey and James Harden are expected to remain off the hardwood until at least Dec. 11 and Dec. 5 respectively nurturing foot injuries. The Sixers' guard rotation outside of those two comes down to Shake Milton, De'Anthony Melton, and a bunch […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 7: Shake Milton, Malik Monk, Killian Hayes

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 […]

Immanuel Quickley (SG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of leagues ANALYSIS: It is very hard to know what's going on around New York City with rumors flying in all directions. Those whispers have involved players such as Immanuel Quickley, who seemed to be untouchable just a few months ago when the Knicks decided […]

Killian Hayes (PG, DET) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: France is already into the knockout stages of the World Cup, Kylian Mbappe keeps bagging goals for the French side, and--oh, yeah, this is supposed to be a fantasy basketball blurb about a wive wire target. Hmmm... what about keeping it Rouge […]

Caleb Martin (SF, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: Just in the last five games alone, Caleb Martin has played 202 minutes of basketball. That's ridiculous. That is, also, what happens when you are part of a team with a depleted rotation no matter the position in the depth chart you […]

Malik Monk (SG, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Sacramento Kings have arrived and are sitting pretty in the postseason run at least through the first quarter of the season. There are multiple reasons for that, of course, and that list probably doesn't start with Malik Monk at the top, […]

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7 Include Marvin Bagley, Derrick White, Deni Avdija, Immanuel Quickley

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! 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. […]

Mason Plumlee (C, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: There is a chance Charlotte eventually decides to throw some young bloods into the starting lineup and starts handing bulky minutes to their most inexperienced players if the season goes totally wrong. That will see Mason Plumlee give his starting nod to […]

De'Anthony Melton (SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 27% of leagues ANALYSIS: Tyrese Maxey and James Harden are expected to remain off the hardwood until at least Dec. 11 and Dec. 5 respectively nurturing foot injuries. The Sixers' guard rotation outside of those two comes down to Shake Milton, De'Anthony Melton, and a bunch of […]

Royce O'Neale (SF, BKN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 38% of leagues ANALYSIS: The good thing about being a low-maintenance guy is that no matter what happens around you, you always remain the same. Ask Royce O'Neal after he saw all of Kyrie Irving, Ben Simmons, Cam Thomas, etc... miss games here and there while […]

Harrison Barnes (SF, SAC) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 53% of leagues ANALYSIS: Harrison Barnes is probably not the Barnes of old anymore, but he keeps starting games nightly for the Kings while having taken on a very specific role as part of Sacramento's first one. No more ball-hogging for him, as his below-average usage […]

Al Horford (C, BOS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 52% of leagues ANALYSIS: Another week in the books since we talked about Al Horford for the last time, another week of excellence by the veteran big man. In the last four games Big Al has played he's been more than noticeable but most fantasy GMs […]

Kelly Olynyk (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 32% of leagues ANALYSIS: Danny Ainge fooled everybody this summer. Yes, he traded Rudy Gobert away from a good bunch of youngsters and draft picks. He doubled down on that moving from Donovan Mitchell and adding another handful of players and draft assets to the fold. […]

Bol Bol (C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 56% of leagues ANALYSIS: If this is not the last week/window of opportunity for you to grab some shares of Bol Bol, then I don't even know what has gone wrong with this world. Bol is starting games nightly, has found a role in the Magic rotation […]

Malik Beasley (SG, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 7

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: A Sixth Man of the Year candidate (and, let's be honest, most-probable winner judging by what has happened to date) rostered in fewer than half of all ESPN leagues!? Give me all of those shares! With the Utah Jazz still keeping their record […]

Walker Kessler (C, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues ANALYSIS: Walker Kessler had a disappointing freshman year for the North Carolina Tar Heels, but the choice to transfer to Auburn served him greatly; and he finished his only season as a Tiger with 11.4 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.1 steals, and 4.6 blocks […]

Tari Eason (SF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of leagues ANALYSIS: Tari Eason started his college basketball career as an All-AAC Freshman for the Cincinnati Bearcats, averaging 1,3 blocks and 1.2 steals per game in 19.6 MP before transferring to LSU; where he burgeoned to produce 16.9 points, 6.6 boards, 1.9 steals, and […]

Christian Koloko (C, TOR) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 2% of leagues ANALYSIS: Christian Koloko was the 2021-22 Pac-12 Most Improved Player and Defensive Player of the year, and he ended up getting drafted in the second round (33rd overall) by the Toronto Raptors, who have needed to engage in plenty of roster-experimentation over the […]

Caleb Martin (SF, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 3% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Miami Heat are coming off the weirdest game ever in the post-COVID era of the NBA: just seven players logged at least one minute against Washington on Friday with eight of them dressing (the minimum allowed) but one not truly available […]

Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 5% of leagues ANALYSIS: Just a few hours after Shams Charania dropped his latest report with bits of information about who's available in trade talks--one of those players being Immanuel Quickley--the Knicks faced Golden State away from home after having won back-to-back contests against Utah and […]

Larry Nance Jr. (PF, NOP) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues ANALYSIS: Zion Williamson present or not, Larry Nance Jr. will keep waiting from the Pelicans pine no matter what by the recent looks of it. Nance has not started a game this season in New Orleans even when Zion has missed time at […]

De'Anthony Melton (SG, PHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 15% of leagues ANALYSIS: While every casual NBA fan was confused reading stories about Giannis fighting an A-frame ladder on Friday, the actual news we were caring about for our fantasy endeavors was much more troubling: Tyrese Maxey went off the court injured after just 21 […]

Tyus Jones (PG, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 6% of leagues ANALYSIS: Is it time!? It might very well be, folks! Truth be told, it is sad to have Ja Morant suffering any kind of injury that prevents us from watching him play basketball on a nightly basis. That said, when things like that […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 6: De'Anthony Melton, Tyus Jones, Caleb Martin

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 6 Include Tyus Jones, Shake Milton, Killian Hayes

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! 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. […]

Mason Plumlee (C, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 18% of leagues ANALYSIS: What happened last Friday in the game between the Cavs and the Hornets could very well be labeled a fluke more than a trend in Mason Plumlee's case. That's because exclusively looking at the center's Friday fantasy numbers, that game ended up […]

Aaron Gordon (SF, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 61% of leagues ANALYSIS: This definitely breaks my self-imposed rule of not writing about players rostered on more leagues than not when it comes to WW posts, but this might also be the last time you have a shot at landing a legitimate starter part of […]

Bones Hyland (PG, DEN) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 6

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 17% of leagues ANALYSIS: Between COVID and non-COVID maladies multiple Denver Nuggets players have spent time off the court recently opening the doors for others to pop up out of nowhere or, in the case of Bones Hyland, to solidify themselves having massive performances of late. […]