Kenyon Martin Jr. (SF/PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 14% of leagues ANALYSIS: On a team like the Houston Rockets, there are going to be plenty of experimental minutes to go around. Outside of Jalen Green and Kevin Porter Jr., the rest of the minutes are all up for experimental and growth purposes. With that […]

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5 Include Malik Beasley, Cameron Payne, Aleksej Pokusevski, Jevon Carter

Welcome back to RotoBaller's weekly fantasy basketball waiver wire column and schedule breakdown. How's the start of this season treating your fantasy rosters? Do you already need some help? These recommendations are mainly for 9-cat leagues, but if you play in another format, there's a good chance that the information here can still help you. […]

Bennedict Mathurin (SF, IND) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 57% of leagues ANALYSIS: It is normal to find rookies a little bit over-rostered early in the season because of what we know as the Novelty Bias: a 19-year-old fresh off averaging a double-double in college!? Give me two! Who wants a 34-year-old veteran when you […]

Kevin Love (PF, CLE) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 5

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 22% of leagues ANALYSIS: Things have calmed down a bit in The Land with Kevin Love coming back down to Earth a bit, but even then the über-veteran is still quite an appealing fantasy option available for free in nearly four of every five ESPN leagues […]

Fantasy Basketball Drop List: Week 4

What's up, RotoBallers! Hopefully, the 2022-23 NBA season hasn't gone sour for you this early on. The Drop List returns for another week, and it might not be kind to some of your rosters. Each week, I'll take a look at a handful of NBA players that can be dropped from your fantasy team. Without […]

DraftKings and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/11/22): NBA DFS Lineups

Happy Friday, RotoBallers! The NBA season is finally here, and we have a solid eight games slotted for this evening. It's a new season, with players switching teams, rookies joining the fold, and rotations mixing and matching as teams learn to gel. My model will take time to adjust to these changes, but it's my […]

Fantasy Basketball Starting Lineup Changes - Week 3

Welcome to Rotation Watch, Rotoballers! Each week, this article will highlight the players gaining minutes in their team's rotation. Fantasy managers want to roster the players that accumulate stats and rack up the playing time. They want to avoid the players falling out of favor and watching the action from the sidelines. With the new […]

DraftKings and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/10/22): NBA DFS Lineups

Happy Thursday, RotoBallers! We are up to four games for our Thursday night slate. We have Dallas moving up the coast to Washington. Charlotte heads to Miami. Philly is in Atlanta. We close it out with Portland in Nawlins to take on the Pelicans. With both FanDuel and DraftKings having multi-position eligibility players, we'll have […]

DraftKings and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/9/22): NBA DFS Lineups

After a day off Tuesday due to Election Day, the NBA is back at near full strength Wednesday night with a 13-game slate that naturally features plenty of stars in action. If playing the full slate, you'll have plenty of decisions and choices to make them with, and we'll aim to highlight one option at […]

Fantasy Basketball Injury Updates for Week 3 - Kyrie Irving, Rudy Gobert, Pascal Siakam

Welcome back RotoBallers! It might be early in the season, but there are still impactful injuries all across the fantasy basketball landscape. I'm here to help you stay up to date on injury news, and how it impacts your teams. I'm doing this midday on Monday for release Tuesday morning, so any news that drops […]

Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4 Include Bones Hyland, Cam Thomas, Larry Nance Jr., Max Strus

Welcome back to RotoBaller's weekly fantasy basketball waiver wire column and schedule breakdown. How's the start of this season treating your fantasy rosters? Do you already need some help? We have a bit of an odd week ahead, with no games on Tuesday, as it's Election Day. These recommendations are mainly for 9-cat leagues, but […]

DraftKings and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/7/22): NBA DFS Lineups

We're primed for an even bigger Monday night than usual, as there are total of 15 games on the slate with the NBA going dark Tuesday in deference to Election Day. That means a massive amount of options at every position all across the salary cap, even when factoring in injuries. It's a great night […]

Patrick Williams (PF, CHI) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 4% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Bulls have started Patrick Williams at the PF position in all of their games this season. He had to go through the "rehab" process during the start of the year (read: October) but he's now finally logging 30+ MPG on a […]

Fantasy Basketball Deeper-League Waiver Wire Adds for Week 4

The deeper a fantasy basketball league, the harder it is to hit a winner with your last few picks. It is also harder to find decent help from the waiver wire if your late-round picks don't do you justice. If you picked up a few stinkers, don't lose hope just yet. I will try to […]

Kevin Love (PF, CLE) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 15% of leagues ANALYSIS: Kevin Love might not be Kevin Love anymore, but he still is way more than an impactless-glue-guy a la Udonis Haslem in Miami. Love is the only remnant of Cleveland from the LBJ days of yore, pretty much like Chris Bosh was in […]

Bol Bol (PF, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 37% of leagues ANALYSIS: It was all jokes about Bol Bol until it was not anymore. Or shouldn't be, as we're witnessing this man grow (well, maybe not literally because that'd make no sense...) into more than a huge hooping Slenderman. And the best thing of […]

Lonnie Walker IV (SF, LAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 20% of leagues ANALYSIS: The Los Angeles Lakers seemed to have gotten things right, but at the end of the day it looks like they quite didn't do that much. That's why they only won a fluky game against the Nuggets, barely got another W with […]

Jarred Vanderbilt (PF, UTA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 33% of leagues ANALYSIS: What if we were all wrong and the Utah Jazz made the Mitchell trade on purpose to bolster the roster on all fronts and make a play-in/postseason run? Uh!? I don't know about that, but I know one little thing: Jarred Vanderbilt […]

Jabari Smith Jr. (PF, HOU) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 48% of leagues ANALYSIS: Perhaps the best thing going in Jabari Smith's way these days when it comes to keeping considering him a viable fantasy player is just his status in the NBA as a rookie. Other than that, I have to concede that he's been […]

DraftKings and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/5/22): NBA DFS Lineups

We have a tidy seven-gamer on Saturday following a massive 12-game slate last night. The Spurs-Nuggets affair leads my K-Grade model and holds the highest implied total on the slate, so that will be a matchup we'll want to get exposure to. However, there's some blowout risk in that one and there are other spots […]

Fantasy Basketball Drop List: Week 3

What's up, RotoBallers! Hopefully, the 2022-23 NBA season hasn't gone sour for you this early on. The Drop List returns for another week, and it might not be kind to some of your rosters. Each week I'll take a look at a handful of NBA players that can be dropped from your fantasy team. Without […]

DraftKings and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/4/22): NBA DFS Lineups

Happy Friday, RotoBallers! The NBA season is finally here, and we have a whopping 12 games slotted for this evening. It's a new season, with players switching teams, rookies joining the fold, and rotations mixing and matching as teams learn to gel. My model will take time to adjust to these changes, but it's my […]

Fantasy Basketball Starting Lineup Changes - Week 2

Welcome to Rotation Watch, Rotoballers! Each week, this article will highlight the players gaining minutes in their team's rotation. Fantasy managers want to roster the players that accumulate stats and rack up the playing time. They want to avoid the players falling out of favor and watching the action from the sidelines. With the new […]

DraftKings and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/3/22): NBA DFS Lineups

Happy Thursday, RotoBallers! We are back to two games on our Thursday night slate this week. We have the Warriors in Orlando for the early tip. We head to Oklahoma City for the next game where Jokic will pile up huge numbers in his 28 minutes against the Oklahoma City Tankers. With both FanDuel and […]

DraftKings and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/2/22): NBA DFS Lineups

We're set up for a typically robust 11-game slate on one of the busiest nights of the week in the Association, giving us plenty of names to sift through when putting lineups together. As is typical on a ledger of this size, there are spreads and totals all across the board, but we are blessed […]

Fantasy Basketball Injury Updates for Week 2 - Damian Lillard, Kawhi Leonard, Deandre Ayton

Welcome back RotoBallers! It might be early in the season, but there are still impactful injuries all across the fantasy basketball landscape. I'm here to help you stay up to date on injury news, and how it impacts your teams. I'm doing this midday on Monday for release Tuesday morning, so any news that drops […]

DraftKings, FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (11/1/22): Today's Top NBA DFS Lineups

Happy Tuesday RotoBallers! Another solid slate in front of us, with the national TV double-header on TNT as a headliner. These articles focus on the overall best plays, which are typically more suited for cash games. However, some exceptions may apply, depending on the size of the slate. This article will provide you with my […]

DraftKings and FanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Picks (10/31/22): NBA DFS Lineups

We have a seven-game Halloween slate on tap Monday night, which sets up with a manageable number of games and options to build our DFS lineups around. It isn't difficult to find some strong plays at each level of the salary cap, which naturally bodes well for the chances of building a balanced lineup. We […]

Max Strus (SG/SF, MIA) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 11% of leagues ANALYSIS: Nobody in the NBA has played more minutes than Max Strus through Saturday while starting fewer than six games. Strus has logged 217 MP already in his seven games (just one start) and the closest player to that tally on one-or-no starts is […]

Bol Bol (PF/C, ORL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 3

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-team Leagues ROSTERED IN: 13% of leagues ANALYSIS: Is it finally happening? It is, right? Right? Bol Bol, who Orlando inked to a one-year deal this past summer, has appeared in all six games played by the Magic this season while also starting in one of those. The return has been rather […]