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BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 34% of leagues
ANALYSIS: If you're a hater by nature, odds are you're not going to ever roster, let alone start Hassan Whiteside in any of your fantasy teams for the remainder of his career. If you're a savvy and avid and smart veteran fantasy player you will roster him, start him when the situation calls for it, and reap the tasty rewards. As simple as that things are when it comes to the freshest member of the Utah Jazz.
Whiteside, as much maligned as he's always been (but empty calories!) is an absolute mighty performer on a per-minute basis. The big man is putting up an average of 1.22 FP/min, which is the same/close/better amount of fantasy points the likes of Jusuf Nurkic, Jonas Valanciunas, Richaun Holmes, Bam Adebayo, Domantas Sabonis are dropping themselves. Obviously, the upside that Whiteside carries and his ceiling are quite lower in comparison because he's playing only 17 MPG (all of the other are locks for a daily diet of 25+ minutes if not even 30+ or more).
But in Hassan, you'll have a fantastic option if you're part of a deeper league in which every single player counts. Whiteside is averaging 8+ PPG, 7+ RPG, and 1+ BPG so far. Pro-rated to a 36-minute basis, that'd be like having a 16-14-2 player right there, so you get an idea. The free throws have fallen perfectly (8-for-8), the shooting is fantastic at 68% on nearly 5 FGA, and Whiteside has not really been any sort of turnover machine either. The role won't change, but it's not that we need it--we all know Hassan, what he does, and what he is valuable at. And I just can't hate any of that.
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