Thomas Bryant (C, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 11

December 26, 2022

Thomas Bryant is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 11 of the 2022-23 NBA season.

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 18% of leagues

ANALYSIS: Thomas Bryant returned to the court on Nov. 18, slightly over a month ago, but he didn't feature prominently in the Lakers' lineups until last week when Anthony Davis (who has been playing center all year) went down injured. Since then, and in the last five games (the last four as a starter), Bryant has seen the doors of fantasy heaven widely open in front of him.

Bryant enters Christmas having played 24, 33, 27, 29, and 34 minutes in the last five games he's appeared in. He's scored at least 16 points in four of those and grabbed at least 10 boards in three. The average line in those five outings is nearing a 15-9-2-1 per game line. No joke, folks. And Anthony Davis is expected to be out at the very least for one more month.

Stop reading this. Go grab some Bryant shares. (...) Okay, now let's keep discussing this man's upside for a minute.

The Lakers lack a bit of everything and big bodies are not something they have quite a surplus of. Bryant will keep eating big-time minutes on a nightly basis until mid-January at the very least, if not after that if/when AD comes back, and the Lakers use him at the four instead of the five to prevent more health issues hitting Davis.

Bryant is always going to dump buckets inside and pull down boards in bunches, but the most interesting thing comes from beyond the arc as he's scored at least one shot from three-point range in his last five games and two long-rangers in each of his last four matches.

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