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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 21% of leagues
ANALYSIS: We had to wait more than a full month to watch Markelle Fultz grace a basketball court, but he finally did it in Orlando's last game of November and he's now played (and started) 13 games on the full year and every game the Magic have played this month.
If you have not been paying attention, then let me tell you that Orlando started the season 5-20 but the franchise is 8-1 since then. Seriously. The Magic have lost one and only one game in the past three weeks going all the way back to Dec. 7 (when they started this run) and that loss was a one-point defeat to the Hawks.
I'm not saying Fultz changed the outlook of this team, but... Fultz has played 20+ MP in 11 of his 13 games to date and Orlando is 8-3 in those matchups. Fultz has reached at least 26 FP in five of his last six games and in the past 10 days, averaged 13+ points, 5+ rebounds, 6+ dimes, and 2+ steals in that span.
The points and the assists were expected, but the rebounding numbers are gaudy and surprisingly nice to see pop up nightly. The turnovers are going to hurt you if your league accounts for them, though, as Fultz is losing nearly 2.5 possessions per game.
Fultz is a little bit of a random player on a night-to-night basis, mind you, and he can give you 15+ points or 8+ dimes as easily as he could finish the day failing to reach double-digit points and handing out just a couple of dimes. Thus, the 14+ team league recommendation.
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