Immanuel Quickley (PG, NYK) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 15% of leagues

ANALYSIS: One game into the Hart Era of New York Knicks basketball (as the Nets fans would call it, I guess), Immanuel Quickley can sleep tight after knowing he's not the main casualty of the aftermath of the arrival of the former Trail Blazer. That'd be Miles McBride, who was left out of Tom Thibodeau's nine-man rotation.

This was something reasonable to expect, but you never know with Thibs. Immanuel Quickley has been this season's sixth man in the Mecca and that looks like it won't be changing ROS. In other words: go smash that Add button through your league WW as soon as you can!

Even though the minutes have gone down a notch from his late December/early January span (a fluke, though, because RJ Barrett missed time injured), IQ is still playing a healthy 30 MPG thanks to Thibs' confidence in his help coming in relief and off the pine. Quickley is surely contributing and meriting that ample playing time, mind you, with an average line approaching 13-4-3-1 nightly.

Quickley has been able to shoot the rock quite nicely since the start of the 2023 calendar year, hitting 49.5% of all field goals he's attempted from the floor while scoring 38 3PM in 20 games played since January 1 for an average of nearly two 3PM per game. In fact, IQ has dropped at least 2+ 3PM in seven of his last nine games and he's scored eight total three-point shots in the last three games through Saturday.

There is a chance the rebounds go down a bit with Josh Hart sharing the floor with him going forward, but that might boost his dimes a bit on the other hand. The steals are also very solid and steady with IQ committing exactly one theft in 10 of his last 12 games, while he's also been able to limit his turnovers a lot with no more than one TO in 18 of the 20 matchups he's been part of this year.

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