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Daniel Gafford is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 13 of the 2022-23 NBA season.
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues
ANALYSIS: While Daniel Gafford scared every living (Wizards) soul last Tuesday by leaving the game against the Bucks early with an apparent shoulder injury, he returned without any visible issue on Friday against OKC and had the game you would have expected from him considering his latest exploits.
Gafford has started nine games in a row for the Wiz, accruing 223 minutes of play in that span compared to 452 in the prior 31 games he'd been part of earlier in the year. Yes, that means he's gone from playing around 14 MPG off the pine to nearly 25 MPG while on the starting five. Not bad for a change.
The Wizards' big man has done it all in the games he's started. He's swatting almost 1.5 BPG and dishing out some dimes (1+ APG), but mostly doing heavy damage on the boards (approaching 7 RPG) and the scoreboard (nearly 12 PPG).
Since the start of December, Gafford has appeared in 18 games with an average per-game stat line reading 10-6-1 and adding 1.5 BPG to that. Through Saturday's games, Gafford is one of only seven players with 28+ shots blocked starting to count from Dec. 1. He's done it in 389 MP compared to the next-lowest playing time of 403 MP.
Gafford won't give you any sort of three-point upside because he never ever stretches the floor. That said, he's one of five players with 190+ points and 25+ blocks since the start of December, and one of only four (Christian Wood, Myles Turner, and Brook Lopez are the others) adding 100+ rebounds to those other two totals.
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