Alec Burks (PG/SG/SF, NYK): Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

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ANALYSIS: With Derrick Rose injured for a good chunk of games (and still recovering) the Knicks turned to do-it-all man Alec Burks to man the team's point guard position over recently-acquired Kemba Walker, who fell out of the rotation entirely at some point. Then, because of course, Kemba went back and had a couple of monster games, sending Burks back to the bench. And the, because of course and this being the Knicks, Kemba again was DNP'ed by Coach Thibs and he's stayed out while Burks has regained the starting nod at PG. Nothing makes sense, but don't worry; it's New York.

Burks has started five games in a row through Wednesday as the Knicks get ready to face trade-friend Atlanta on Saturday. He's played a bonkers 35 MPG in that five-game span even though he's been atrocious at shooting the rock averaging a measly 27.8% from the field on his 10+ FGA per game. That's what we call a serious slump, but that's also an outlier in the past three weeks of play as Burks was shooting 46% on his prior seven games. The free throws, though, keep falling with gusto as Burks is keeping up an 82.3% from the charity stripe attempting 3.2 freebies a day.

The thing about Burks, though, is that he's multi-position eligible (both guard slots and SF on top of that) while carrying tons of three-point upside, good overall scoring numbers, a super-depressed turnover rate for those in 9-cat leagues (0.9 TOPG), and a solid 1.3 SPG average on the year that he's raised all the way up to an unbelievable 2.5 (!) SPG average in the past eight games--he's stolen 2+ possessions in six of those eight games and 3+ in four of them.

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