Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups - Week 12

January 3, 2022

Week 12 fantasy basketball waiver wire pickups, adds, and sleepers for the 2021-2022 NBA season. Justin Carter recommends guards, forwards and centers to target through waivers or free agency in 9-cat fantasy leagues.

Welcome back to the waiver wire! Need to bolster your flailing team? We've got you covered. Maybe. With this current COVID situation going on, we might have you covered. IDK. Half the guy on this list might end up not playing. We'll see.

These recommendations are mainly for 9-cat leagues, but if you play in another format, there's a good chance that the information here can still help you. We'll be looking at centers, forwards, and guards whose low rostership and upside make them ideal players to get onto your fantasy team.

Our staff at RotoBaller has great insight and daily columns on how to improve your squad and tips to make your team successful, so be sure to check them out! Now, let's get prepared for Week 12.

9-Category Leagues - Waiver Wire Adds

This column is written based on H2H 9-category standard size leagues. All players in this article are rostered at around 50 percent or less.

Hamidou Diallo, SG/SF - Detroit Pistons

51% rostered 

ALERT ALERT ALERT.

If you're in the 49% of leagues where Diallo is available...how? Here are his last three games:

@ SAS: 28 points on 68.4% shooting with three rebounds, two assists, three steals and one block

vs NYK: 31 points on 68.4% shooting with 13 rebounds, four assists and four steals

vs SAS: 34 points on 40.6% shooting with 14 points, four assists, five steals and two blocks

Like...WHAT. (Sure, he did play 50 minutes in one of those games because of overtime, but still...pick him up!)

Malik Monk, PG/SG - Los Angeles Lakers

42% rostered 

Monk is playing a ton of minutes for the Lakers and is a great source of points and threes right now. He's also consistently shooting over 50% from the floor and should probably be on your roster if you've got an extra roster spot due to all the COVID issues around the NBA.

Coby White, PG/SG - Chicago Bulls

39% rostered 

Four games in a row with double-digit points, including 20-plus points and 4.5 assists per game over the last two games. He's hit 10 threes over the last two games as well. He should be rostered in most formats at this point (unless you're in an eight-team league, I guess).

Herbert Jones, SF/PF - New Orleans Pelicans

36% rostered 

Jones has a back-to-back coming up and should be able to post solid numbers this week. The rookie is averaging 18.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 2.3 blocks, 1.3 steals and 2.0 threes over his last three games and is an ascending talent that you should probably go scoop up off the waiver wire if he's still there.

Patrick Beverley, PG/SG - Minnesota Timberwolves

32% rostered 

Beverley is a solid source of points, threes, assists and steals. He won't ever blow you away with his numbers, but he also shouldn't really have games where he's a non-entity because he's so important to what Minnesota is doing.

Justin Holiday, SG/SF - Indiana Pacers

27% rostered 

11 three-pointers over the past two games for Holiday, with point totals of 16 and 18 in those two games. Sure, points and threes are basically the easiest things to find on the wire, but you still have to actually grab those things off the wire, right? Plus, Holiday is a solid source of steals as well.

Terrence Ross, SG/SF - Orlando Magic

26% rostered 

After missing seven games, Ross came back and just dominated against the Celtics, scoring 33 points and adding five rebound and three steals. He made four threes. Obviously we should not expect Terrence Ross to be a guy who scores like this on a nightly basis, but he's a solid guy to take a swing on in deeper leagues if you need points, threes and steals.

Jalen Smith, PF - Phoenix Suns

24% rostered 

Smith has had a double-double in two of the last three games, including Sunday's 19 points and 12 rebounds against Charlotte. Smith's another guy whose minutes are up because other guys are in the league protocols, but as long as he's getting 20-plus minutes per night, he'll be a solid source of points, rebounds, blocks and field goal percentage.

Aaron Wiggins, SG/SF - Oklahoma City Thunder

23% rostered 

Five games in a row with double-digit points for Wiggins, including a pair of games where he went over 20 points. He had four or more rebounds in each of those games as well and at least one steal in four consecutive games.

Solid guy to pick up for the near future, especially after he just played 37 minutes on Sunday.

Facundo Campazzo, PG - Denver Nuggets

19% rostered 

Against Houston, Campazzo had 22 points, four rebounds, 12 assists, five steals and two blocks. The scoring is inconsistent on a nightly basis, but if you need assists and steals in your league, then you should take a hard look at Campazzo. He has multiple steals in four consecutive games and is getting extra chances with Monte Morris dealing with a knee injury.

Josh Richardson, SG/SF - Boston Celtics

18% rostered 

When Richardson plays, he's been doing well, hitting double figures in scoring in three of his last five games. Of course, there were four missed games in between, and the scoring has been down in the last three games. Still, if you need some points, assists and steals in a deep league, there are worse options you could pursue.

Kyle Guy, PG - Miami Heat

5% rostered 

Guy's first game of the season saw him score 17 points with four rebounds, four assists, three steals and four threes. He cooled off in his second game, but seven points with two boards and four assists isn't terrible for a guy who was just signed. Guy has two games in the next three days, making him a solid option for managers in deep leagues just in case he hits his upside.

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