Kevin Love (PF/C, CLE): Week 10 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 58% of leagues

ANALYSIS: Sure thing, that rostership is clearly above my self-imposed 50% threshold. But adding Kevin Love while you still can is looking like a very solid move to do these days. That's because Love is putting up numbers for the Cavs and whether Clevelands holds onto him and his low-maintenance role, or he gets eventually traded to a needy contender, odds are he keeps producing ridiculously efficient per-minute averages.

Love has not started a single game this season and he's playing just 20 MPG off the pine on the year. In the nine games he's played this month (through last Wednesday) his FP/min average has sat at an unreasonable 1.40 mark. For context, the league average is around 0.90, and Love's 1.40 average is on par with those of Giannis, Jokic, Embiid, Trae, LaMelo, or Steph just to name a few studs. Of course, those players are doing it while playing 30+ minutes and starting for their teams, but even then you get an idea of how productive Love has been on his limited role.

It's been six games in a row for Love finishing with double-digit points. He's averaging 15.5 PPG since Dec. 6 (included) and has also hit 3+ triples in all of those six matches. The rebounds are high at 6.8 RPG (12.2 per 36 minutes) while the dimes are low but steady at 1.6 APG. Love is turning the ball over at a high clip, so I wouldn't advise him on that front if that's a cat counting for your league's standings. That said, his usage rate is bonkers at 26.5% in December leading the Cavs second unit and the shooting percentages can't get much better after a shaky start: 48% from the field on 8.8 FGA per game in December and an even better 56% on 8.2 FGA in the last week of play (four games).

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