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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 46% of leagues
ANALYSIS: After a month of play in which Chuma Okeke started 10 of 12 games (from mid-December to mid-January), the Magic sent Okeke back to the pine and trusted him to man a second-unit leading role. So far, so good for the second-year forward, who is playing his best and most efficient basketball of the season these days putting up very solid numbers and contributing all across the board.
It's been eight games for Okeke since he went back to the second unit. In those matches (spanning a little over three weeks through Saturday) Okeke has been good for an 11-4-2-1-1. That right there is a low-but-packed line, and Okeke is doing it in just 25 MPG while posting an average of 1.07 FP/min. Just for context, the league average sits at around 0.90 and some players close to Okeke's mark are the likes of Brandon Clarke, Draymond Green, Kyle Kuzma, Anthony Edwards, Zach LaVine, or Darius Graland, just to name a few.
Playing for a bad team in Orlando--let alone coming off the bench--is always going to limit Okeke's upside, of course, but even then rostering Okeke isn't a bad move for those in slightly deeper formats. Okeke comes with fantastic upside on all scoring categories (both total numbers and percentages) but freebies (barely goes to the line), while averaging 2.1 SPG since Dec. 17 and 1.3 BPG in the past couple of weeks (six games). Can't get much better no matter where you look at.
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