Fantasy Basketball - Dynasty Rundown for Week 3

Welcome to RotoBaller's weekly dynasty league rundown! Dynasty leagues are becoming more and more popular, and we're here to keep you ahead of the game. Each week, we'll touch on topics and players that may not necessarily be relevant in single-year formats, but they can make a splash in keeper leagues. With that being said, […]

Fantasy Basketball Rotation Watch: Playing Time Updates for Week 3

Welcome to Rotation Watch! Each week this article will break down who is gaining and who is losing minutes around the NBA. You want the players on your team that is getting their opportunity to shine, not the ones who are sitting on the bench and watching from the sidelines. Week 2 of the fantasy […]

Fantasy Basketball Risers and Fallers: Week 2

We're already basically done with the second week of the NBA season. Times fles! The Suns are maybe good. The Warriors are going to get the number-one pick and mess that up by drafting James Wiseman, probably. Nothing makes sense! Except, that is, in the basketball analysis world, because we're starting to build up slightly […]

The Fantasy Basketball Drop List: Week 2

We're almost done with the second week of this NBA season, somehow. By now, you're starting to have a lot of questions about certain players on your roster and what you should do with them. Hold them for a little longer and see if things get going? Drop them so you can pick up that […]

Fantasy Basketball - Dynasty Rundown for Week 2

Welcome to RotoBaller's weekly dynasty league rundown! Dynasty leagues are becoming more and more popular, and we're here to keep you ahead of the game. Each week, we'll touch on topics and players that may not necessarily be relevant in single-year formats, but they can make a splash in keeper leagues. With that being said, […]

Fantasy Basketball Rotation Watch: Playing Time Updates for Week 2

Welcome to Rotation Watch! Each week this article will break down who is gaining and who is losing minutes around the NBA. You want the players on your team that is getting their opportunity to shine, not the ones who are sitting on the bench and watching from the sidelines. What an opening week for […]

Fantasy Basketball Risers and Fallers: Week 1

The NBA season isn't quite a week old yet, but it's never too early to start thinking about the changes you need to make to your fantasy basketball lineup, right? Welcome to this year's fantasy basketball risers and fallers column, a weekly look at a few players whose stock is rising and a few who've […]

NBA Rookies To Target for Fantasy Basketball Drafts

Taking a rookie early rarely works out in fantasy basketball. Everyone wants to play with the shiny new toy. Everyone wants to be the guy that says, "I believed in Player A because I took him in Round X". That's why people draft rookies way too high almost every year in fantasy basketball. With all […]

Ja Morant - Fantasy Basketball Rookie Profile

Position: PG Team: Memphis Grizzlies Draft Spot: 1.02 Analysis: JA Morant was clearly the best player in the 2019 draft class outside of Zion Williamson. In his sophomore season, he averaged 24.5 points, 10 assists, 5.7 rebounds, and 1.8 steals while shooting 49.9 percent from the field and 36.3 percent from three. Those numbers combined […]

How to Punt Categories in Fantasy Basketball

Welcome to fantasy draft season for the 2019-20 NBA season! It's time to start thinking about how you're going to win your league this year. RotoBaller will be here with rankings, sleepers, players to avoid, and much more including more articles about punting strategies. Before we dive too deep into individual players, though, let's take […]

Carsen Edwards - Fantasy Basketball Rookie Profile

Finding the one or two rookies from each class that actual carry value is one of the best parts of fantasy basketball. Identifying them early can help you make some favorable trade offers and if you time it correctly, your team will be preparing for the playoffs only a few weeks into the season with […]

RotoBaller's Fantasy Basketball Mock Draft: Round-By-Round Recap

The most important part of fantasy sports is arguably the part where you draft players. With the NBA season right around the corner, RotoBaller's team of NBA writers got together and got down to business with our annual mock draft.  Twelve writers went through a slow mock draft through Fantrax. Let’s dive into the results!Upgrade To […]

Top 10 Rookies in NBA Re-Draft Leagues (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to RotoBaller's premium draft kit! We're here to help you win big in fantasy basketball this season. As we get into draft season, here are a few rookies you can look at in your re-draft leagues.  There has been a lot of hype […]

Top 10 Rookies in NBA Dynasty Leagues (Premium Content)

All other Premium Tools can be accessed on the premium dashboard. Welcome to RotoBaller's premium draft kit! We're here to help you win big in fantasy basketball this season. Unlike re-draft leagues, dynasty basketball often can require a player to patiently wait for their players to hit maximum value.   Top-10 Rookies For Dynasty 1. […]

Fantasy Basketball Division Preview Series: Pacific

Welcome to the first of six articles in our division preview series for the 2019-2020 NBA season. I'll be breaking down each team in the NBA and answering some key questions about those teams that will affect the fantasy value of the players on those teams. We'll be starting with the most exciting division in […]

Diamonds in the (Very) Rough: NBA Draft Sleepers Of The Second Round and Beyond

It's funny that every year at the NBA Draft, once the end of the guaranteed money and live appearances arrives at the end of the first round, everybody tunes out and refers to the 60th pick as "Mr.Irrelevant". That's not very accurate though, is it? If we're going off of pure history and volume of […]

2019 NBA Draft: Five Players Most Likely To Bust

Now that we know who was drafted where, it's time to start analyzing what those picks mean. That analysis can come in the form of some of the positive looks at players and situations that we'll be publishing here at RotoBaller, but it's also useful sometimes to look at players who might not live up […]

2019 NBA Draft Winners and Losers

The NBA Draft has come and gone. Fortunately, we now get to incessantly talk about it all weekend until the eventual free agent rumors reemerge and take over the news cycle. There were not too many shocking selections in the first round, and while plenty of picks were spoiled prior to the draft's start, it […]

Fantasy Spin: 2019 NBA Mock Draft (Part 3)

Welcome to the final part of RotoBaller's 2019 NBA mock draft, where I'll be looking at the non-lottery part of the first round. Things get murkier here and paths to immediate NBA fantasy basketball impact get tough to judge, but there should still be some solid players in the mix who can help you in […]

Fantasy Spin: 2019 NBA Mock Draft (Part 2)

In the first part of this mock draft, I looked in depth at the (possible) top five picks in this year's NBA Draft. In this one, we'll look at the rest of this year's lottery, picks six through 14. These players don't have the same star power and high expectations that the top five picks […]

Fantasy Spin: The Anthony Davis Trade

Well, it finally happened. Anthony Davis has been traded. After months of speculation and the deal not getting done before the trade deadline because the Pelicans reportedly wanted to wait to see what the Boston Celtics would offer in the Summer, Davis has been traded...to the exact team that he's been rumored to since this […]

Fantasy Spin: 2019 NBA Mock Draft (Part 1)

Welcome back to RotoBaller's NBA coverage! The NBA Draft is almost here, so we're here to help you make sense of it and give you an early edge on your fantasy competitors for the 2019-2020 season. In addition to this mock draft, stick around RotoBaller after the draft to see our reactions to the picks […]

The Rookie Report - Revisiting the 2018-2019 Rookies With An Eye On Next Season (Part 2)

Earlier this season, I took a look at the early returns on this year's rookie class and made player comparisons as well as what I thought their short and long term potential would be. Now that these kids have had a season of ball under their belts, it's time to revisit those comparisons and see […]

NBA Young Boy(s) :The NBA 2018 Rookie Class

The NBA curates a level of interest beyond crazy athletic ability or spectacular winning teamwork; the league lives on the storylines that it creates, and what better storyline than learning how 60+ young, newly minted millionaires will fare in the brutal professional world of the greatest basketball in the world? Today, I return from a […]

The Rookie Report - Revisiting the 2018-2019 Rookies With An Eye On Next Season (Part 1)

Earlier this season, I took a look at the early returns on this year's rookie class and made player comparisons as well as what I thought their short and long term potential would be. Now that these kids have had a season of ball under their belts, it's time to revisit those comparisons and see […]

RotoBaller NBA Recap: Nikola Jokic Carries Nuggets

Welcome to the RotoBaller NBA Recap. In this feature, we will highlight three fantasy basketball takeaways from last night's slate of NBA games. The Lakers, who are still without LeBron James, were upset at home by the Cleveland Cavaliers, which lowered the Lakers record to 3-7 with James sidelined. The Lakers have fallen all the […]

RotoBaller NBA Recap: Giannis Antetokounmpo Outshines James Harden In Head-To-Head Matchup Of MVP Candidates

The 13th Wednesday of the NBA season didn't provide too many intriguing matchups, as a result, only one of the 10 games on the slate finished within single-digits. But that one game was a doozy as early-season MVP candidates Giannis Antetokounmpo and James Harden went mano-e-mano as the Bucks outscored the Rockets by 15 points […]

RotoBaller NBA Recap: The Return of the Saunders Era

Flip Saunders is the greatest coach in Timberwolves history. He led the franchise to their first playoff berth in his first full season as head coach -- Kevin Garnett, Tom Gugliotta, and Stephon Marbury also helped -- brought them their first winning season, has the highest winning percentage among any Wolves head coach during their […]

RotoBaller NBA Recap: The Clint Capela Show

Welcome to the RotoBaller NBA Recap. In this feature, we highlight three fantasy basketball takeaways from last night's slate of NBA games. Monday night featured eight games, with a clash between the Rockets and Nuggets highlighting the night. Houston won that one with a pair of 30-plus point performances from James Harden and Clint Capela, […]