Josh Richardson (PG, SAS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 15

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues

ANALYSIS: Josh Richardson has experienced a (slight) bump up in playing time lately, going from playing around 23 MPG before January to 25+ MPG this month. That's all you can ask for while J-Rich stays in San Antonio, though, as the veteran won't feature heavily for a tanking and rebuilding Spurs franchise.

Things might be about to change for Richardson, though, with the trade deadline just a couple of weeks away and San Antonio expected to open the doors to any contending teams looking for veteran help to boost their rotation. Richardson can surely provide that boost and then some.

Since we flipped the calendar page, Richardson has only had one game in which he's put up fewer than the league-average 0.90 FP/min. In fact, he's averaged an extraordinarily efficient 1.10 FP/min in the last 10 games he's played, all from January 1 on, while getting 25 MPG and keeping up a 14-3-4-1 nightly stat line.

Richardson has yet to finish a game without hitting a three-point shot in 2023 as he's dumping 2.1 3PM per game while shooting a ridiculous 53.7% from the floor and hoisting 10.5+ FGA a pop.

Only five players have scored more three-point shots than Richardson's 21 since the start of 2023 while attempting no more than 52: Caris LeVert, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Grayson Allen, Anthony Lamb, and Franz Wagner, all of them with either 22 or 23. Only Lamb (54.7%) and Wagner (54.5%) have shot better overall than Richardson from the floor, though.

Richardson's per-game stat line in January (14-3-4-1) is only getting mimicked by 29 players and none of them is getting there while playing fewer than 29 MPG compared to Richardson's 24.

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