Alec Burks (SG, NYK): Week 24 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 59% of leagues

ANALYSIS: I know I'm going a little bit over the fifty-rostership self-imposed limit here, but it's the last week of the regular season so let's give it a bit of room to breathe. If you can still find Burks available for free, and even though the Knicks are already just vying for a better draft lottery position, you'd be better off adding Burks than not. Remember, this is a team coached by Stuborness Lord Tommy Thibs, so odds are the remaining games see Burks keep logging unreasonably high minutes while, for some reason, manning the Knicks point.

But we fantasy GMs don't hate that level of malpractice! We embrace it and run with it! Burks has always played on the wing until Thibs decided for some reason that he was good enough to play point guard. And Burks, while a good role player, is just not a point guard and it shows. That said, he's doing more than enough on a rather large playing time to be a more than viable fantasy option ROS. The minutes are up to 34 MPG since the break, and Burks have actually logged 42 and 41 minutes in the last two games played. Sublime.

Burks is going to give you buckets (16+ PPG in the past two weeks), triples (3.4 3PG), dimes on brute force (3+ APG), and incredible rebounding for a (fake) PG (almost 6 RPG) The shooting comes and goes but he's been good to stay on top of a 44.8% from the field for the past couple of weeks, so it's not that he will murder your team on that front. Watch out for the turnovers, as it's a boom/bust proposition--either he turns the ball over 2-to-4 times or entirely avoids them.

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