RADIO
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 24% of leagues
ANALYSIS: The Nets can finally rest assured they'll make the play-in portion of the season. Not quite what you expected when the season got rolling back in October, but at least more than what the Lakers would have accomplished a week from now. A win's a win's a win. Though Brooklyn can not goof around given their precarious situation even in qualification, the truth is that relying on Nicolas Claxton as Drummond's backup is surely working for the team and that should stay the same going forward.
Claxton was starting pretty much every game in the mid-Dec. to early-Feb. portion of the season but that changed after the ASB. Since Feb. 24 Claxton has only started one of the 17 games he's appeared in, but he's still found ways to keep producing numbers and the proof is in his extraordinary per-minute efficiency: from the ASB on Claxton is averaging 1.01 FP/min and in the past couple of weeks (six games played) he's raised that bar to an even better 1.11 figure (league average at 0.90).
You won't find tons of anything in Claxton's nightly stat lines, but you will find a little bit of everything baked into them. The shooting is sublime because Claxton doesn't know what "floor stretching" means when it comes to shooting, so you can count on an 80+ FG% every day. The points are often around 10 a pop, the rebounds reach 5+ easily nightly, and the dimes/steals/blocks are dropping at basically 1-1-1 per game too. Not the highest of upsides but a quite safe floor for the remainder of the season.
More Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups
League Winners: Players To Stash For the Stretch Run - 2024 Fantasy Basketball
The All-Star Break is upon us and while it's nice to have some time off from setting lineups, making DFS lineups, and placing bets. It's also a nice time to look ahead and what moves you can make to put your team in the best position possible to win a fantasy basketball title. Remember, the […]
Trendon Watford (PF, POR) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 23
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues ANALYSIS: According to Shams Charania of The Athletic (reporting on Sunday morning), the Portland Trail Blazers are leaning toward shutting down Damian Lillard for the remainder of the season. The Blazers, mind you, have been without Jerami Grant, Anfernee Simons, Lillard, and Jusuf […]
Xavier Tillman Sr. (PF, MEM) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 23
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues ANALYSIS: With just a week and a half remaining in the regular season and Memphis sitting pretty in the no. 2 seed in the Western Conference, it's hard to envision Steven Adams returning before the playoffs and risking any sort of setback in […]
Deni Avdija (SF, WAS) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 23
BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 8% of leagues ANALYSIS: The surge of Deni Avdija in all fantasy leaderboards has a very easy-to-grasp reason and that's Kyle Kuzma missing time with an injury. Ruled out Sunday, that made it four consecutive outings missed by the Kuz, which has clearly opened the door […]
Nick Richards (C, CHA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 23
BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 9% of leagues ANALYSIS: Rookie Mark Williams returned to the Charlotte Hornets' rotation on Friday and logged 21 minutes coming off the pine. Nick Richards started at center for the seventh consecutive time, but keep in mind Williams had done so for 12 straight games before […]
Download Our Free News & Alerts Mobile App
Like what you see? Download our updated fantasy basketball mobile app for iPhone and Android with 24x7 player news, injury alerts, lineup notifications & DFS articles. All free!
By popular demand, RotoBaller has aggregated all of our fantasy basketball NBA waiver wire pickups into a running list of NBA waiver options, so bookmark the page and check back often for updates.
