Kevon Looney (PF/C, GSW): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 37% of leagues

ANALYSIS: Another week, another set of starts for the Warriors center given the inexistent depth of the team at the big-man position. Seriously. With Draymond Green expected to miss three or four more weeks and James Wiseman not even on the radar, it's Juan Toscano Anderson taking on backup-center duties for GSW these days. Just imagine. Nothing bad can come from that, at least when it comes to rostering Looney in your fantasy squad.

Looney isn't mindblowing because 1) he doesn't play large minutes (25 MPG in the past month and 26 in the past couple of weeks) and 2) he's part of a loaded unit that leaves him below a 15% usage rate more often than not. That said, Looney is an absolute per-minute stud with an average of 1.06 FP/min in his last 16 games (league average at just 0.9). Looney's recent run of performances has been one of the best of his year with four games straight for the big man hitting either double-digit points or/and rebounds. The lines: 6-15, 7-14, 12-12, and 10-7 last Friday against the Kings.

Since the game against Dallas on Jan. 25 in which Looney put up a weird 0-9-2 shooting zero times, Looney has averaged a nice 8-11-1-1 line in the next five games played through Friday. He's been good to hoist around 6 FGA hitting 59% of them, has visited the line a total 13 times, and although he's committed more turnovers than ever in that short span he's been sublime on the boards and provided some steals to make up for that careless offensive game. Not a lot of clear-cut role players in the NBA so locked into a starting position as Looney is in GSW. Make sure to add him in deeper formats and even some shallower ones given the run and the rebounds/steals for a big man.

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