Dwight Howard (C, PHI): Week 20 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 21% of leagues

ANALYSIS: If Dwight Howard is not the best backup center widely available and with more than a reasonable path to fantasy points these days, then I don't even know... While the Sixers are still pretty much fighting to retain the no. 1 seed from being snatched by Brooklyn, the most probable outcome is that they hold onto it. No matter what, though, Dwight seems like a lock to not fall from 15 MPG and not go above 20 either, but it's not that he's needing ample playing time to showboat.

In his last seven games spanning two weeks of play, Dwight has averaged a 9-9-1 line which might look low... until you realize he's been posting those numbers on a rather paltry 18 MPG with a 20.6% usage rate. Dwight has dub-dubbed in three of those seven games, and he's fallen short of it in two other games by either just one point or two rebounds. Howard has been everything Philly can expect from him these days if we're honest.

Dwight is putting up efficient games by the day, and that's been the case for quite some time now. In fact, getting back to the start of March and from that point on, Howard has had 25 games of above-average per-minute play (1.39 FP/min) while putting up an overall 1.27 FP/min mark on the total 30-game sample. Just in the last couple of weeks, he's been able to average a sublime thanks to his 1.40 FP/min, one of the highest among reserves league-wide. Not a lock to do it on a day to day basis, but a very close player to a 10-10 baseline to close the year.

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