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BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues
ANALYSIS: You must know the story by now. Alex Len started the season with the Raptors, played seven games and almost no minutes at all for them, and then was cut. Days after that, Washington added him to its roster to make up for the current injuries they're enduring, and only eight games into his Wiz tenure he's already starting for the team of the capital. Not bad.
I'm 100% in for a Len success story, and so far I can't be more pleased. Len has scored 10+ in the last four games in which he's played more than eight minutes (two starts, two off the bench), is pulling down 4+ RPG since Feb. 3, dishing out 1.5+ APG in that span, and he's also on a four-game streak of blocking at least one shot (season-high 5 blocks on Feb. 5). Oh, and he's shooting a mental 67.6 percent from the field in the last two weeks, just in case.
With Thomas Bryant out for the season and a more-than-probable trade of top-gun Bradley Beal in the next few weeks, Alex Len will see an uptick in minutes and usage rate soon enough. I'd advise targeting Len already because 1) he's the starter, 2) his rostership is low but I expect it to sky-rocket, 3) Washington is about to enter a hard rebuilding processing, and 4) you just can't often find 10-8-1 players who are starters for free as easily as in this case.
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