Bruce Brown (SG/SF/PF, BKN): Week 21 Waiver Wire Pickups

Bruce Brown is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 21 of the NBA season.

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ANALYSIS: It's fascinating how this deep into the season writing about the Los Angeles Lakers and about the Brooklyn Nets is virtually the same, and entirely because of the wrong reasons. Anyway, we're here to discuss a bona fide positive the Nets found as recently as last year when he started to ball for the BKN and turned into a nice contributor for them. Still 25 years old, Brown has gone from starting at the point in Detroit to manning the SF/PF position for the Nets in a rather impressive fashion.

The absolute barrage of injuries and other maladies the Nets have gone through has surely helped Brown find a way to the starting lineup. That doesn't take from his efforts to getting the nod, though, as he's simply excelling this season given his past. Brown has strung 12 consecutive starts in the past month of play (12-for-12 from Feb. 12 to Mar. 12, curiously) while averaging a sizeable 31 MPG in those matches. The usage is low, because Brown is sharing the floor with a unit that has heavily boasted the likes of James Harden, Kevin Durant, and Kyrie Irving, so you get an idea.

Even then, though, Brown is scoring 13+ PPG in the past month while shooting a marvelous 55% from the floor in that span even while averaging a three-point shot per game--in other words, he's got great percentages though he stretches the floor a bit, contrary to other typical high-percentage shooters. Brown's PPG might go down a bit with KD back in full force and Irving potentially playing every game, but his steals (1.6 SPG in the past month) and blocks (0.6) should stay up no matter what. Starter at least until Ben Simmons comes back, which might not happen until the last few games of the regular season.

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