Mo Williams (PG/SG, CLE) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues (Until Kyrie Irving comes back) OWNED: 60% of Yahoo! Leagues ANALYSIS: Mo Williams is a little higher owned than I usually include in these articles, but he should be 100% owned until Kyrie Irving comes back. Let’s get the obvious out of the way. LeBron likes and trusts Mo […]

Marcus Thornton (SG, HOU) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add for PTS and 3PM in deep leagues OWNED: 7% of Fleaflicker Leagues ANALYSIS: Am I about to write over 300 words on Marcus Thornton? Is he really still in the NBA? Believe it or not, the answer to both of those questions is yes. While I wasn’t originally planning to include Marcus Thornton […]

Alec Burks (SG, UTA) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED: 42.8% of ESPN Fantasy Basketball Leagues ANALYSIS: Get to know the name Alec Burks. The 5th year combo guard from Colorado has flown under fantasy radars for a few years now, but the 2015-16 season looks to be a breakout year for Burks. Held to only 27 games […]

Meyers Leonard (PF/C, POR) - Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in All Leagues OWNED: 30.5% of ESPN Fantasy Basketball Leagues ANALYSIS: Meyers Leonard has been a pretty hot name this off season in the fantasy basketball world, but it looks like a lot of owners got cold feet when it came to actually drafting him. I actually own him in the RotoBaller […]

Fantasy Basketball Tiered Rankings: NBA Shooting Guards

The 2015-16 NBA season is getting started next week, and we are pumped.  RotoBaller is here to help not only with ranking your fantasy basketball players, but also with key sleepers, busts, and draft strategies. Today we'll continue our tiered positional rankings with shooting guard.  Be sure to check out our point guard rankings, too. Here we […]

2015 NBA Draft: Team's Draft Pick Grades for Picks 1-15

Owen Elle breaks down the top fifteen picks of the 2015 NBA draft. Want to know what Owen thought before the draft? Find a look back at his first round mock draft with comparisons to the actual picks.   1: Minnesota Timberwolves: C Karl-Anthony Towns It was no secret that Towns was going to be the first […]

2015 NBA Draft: A Look Back at A First Round Mock

Editor's Note: Yes, we know the draft already happened. However, we thought it would be fun to look back in a Back to the Future kind of way to see what we thought before the big night in comparison to what actually happened. Staff writer Owen Elle was kind enough to share his pre-draft thoughts […]

P.J. Hairston (SG/SF, CHA) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Monitor in All Leagues / Add as a Plug-In OWNED: 0% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball Leagues ANALYSIS: Call it my North Carolina favoritism. Call it hopeful thinking for one of the more talented players to play at Chapel Hill during the past few seasons. Maybe its my hopeful thinking that the D-League might eventually become a […]

Alexey Shved (PG/SG, NYK) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 39% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Another Knick benefiting from the dumpster fire that is happening in Madison Square Garden this season, Alexey Shved has been one of the go-to scorers for these Knicks. The 6'6" Russian is a match up nightmare for most guards (especially when he's running the […]

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (SG/SF, CHA) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 30% of Yahoo! Fantasy basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Steve Clifford decided to entrust the starting point guard job to newly acquired Mo Williams over the incumbent Brian Roberts, and believe it or not, having a competent point guard on a night to night basis is benefiting the entire team. Michael […]

Ray McCallum (G, SAC) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in deeper leagues; monitor in all leagues OWNED: 7% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Ray McCallum is former top 20 high school player who decided against the big name schools in order to play for his father at the University of Detroit Mercy and gave away his notoriety because of it. Now he's starting […]

Henry Walker (SG/SF, MIA) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in deeper leagues; monitor in all leagues OWNED: 1% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: The artist formerly known as Bill Walker has reemerged in Miami now that Chris Bosh will miss the rest of the season with blood clot complications. Henry Walker, who has spent the last two seasons toiling in basketball wastelands, has […]

Tony Snell (SG/SF, CHI) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in deeper leagues; monitor in all leagues OWNED: 10% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Some experts believed the Bulls to get a gem when they nabbed Tony Snell with the 20th pick in this year's draft. An athletic specimen out of New Mexico (whose team went 79-26 and won two conference championships while he […]

Mike Dunleavy (SG/SF, CHI) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add as a three point specialist OWNED: 35% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Mike Dunleavy returned from injury two games before the All Star Break. He then got an additional week off for the extended All Star break. Though Dunleavy won't give you stats in many categories (rebounding, assists, steals, blocks), he does provide steady […]

Mo Williams (PG/SG, CHA) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 40% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Charlotte dealt for Williams last week after the veteran was putting up some mid round fantasy numbers in January (16.9 points, 6.3 assists, and 2.3 three pointers per contest), in hopes that they would receive the plug that'll keep them in a playoff push […]

Wayne Ellington (SG, LAL) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add as a three point specialist OWNED: 27% on Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: In a true sign of Laker irrelevance, Wayne Ellington is only a quarter owned despite flirting with 40 minutes a night. Though not a must own in all leagues, he is definitely someone to consider if you're looking for 3-point help. […]

Khris Middleton (SG/SF, MIL) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 55% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: Please tell me that the 55% mark is not accurate. There is just no way. If you look into your waiver wire pool and see Khris Middleton floating around, you add him yesterday. The Texas A&M product is thriving in the improving Milwaukee […]

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (SG/SF, DET) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 22% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: The second year guard is on fire right now and considering his lines last week (16.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 2.3 three pointers per game) he should be added in all leagues until he begins to cool off. Another player […]

Tim Hardaway Jr. (SG/SF, NYK) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED:  24% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: It's a week for Knickerbocker waiver wire pickups. Hardaway did his best impression of his father on Saturday to the tune of 25 points with 6 boards, 5 assists and 5 triples in a losing effort. The former Michigan Wolverine will be one of […]

Lance Thomas (G/F, NYK) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Add in deeper leagues; monitor in all leagues OWNED: 3% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: We are a few days removed from Thomas's 41 minute outing in Charlotte where he secured his second consecutive 16 point outing. A product of that Coach K fellow who just won his 1000th collegiate basketball game, it shouldn't be […]

Langston Galloway (G, NYK) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickup

BALLER MOVE: Consider in all leagues; add in deeper leagues OWNED: 31% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball leagues ANALYSIS: The Knicks might have stumbled onto something with Galloway. Impressive numbers from the D-League have carried over to the big league as the St. Joesph's product displays a line of 12.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.5 treys through […]

Mo Williams (PG/SG, MIN) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add and play in all weekly lineup leagues; add for short term value in other leagues OWNED: 45% in Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball Leagues ANALYSIS: Yes. Williams fantasy value is going to take a massive hit once Ricky Rubio returns from his ankle injury. But his return date has been pushed back numerous times already and […]

Avery Bradley (PG/SG, BOS) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in all 12 team leagues; 10 team league if you need scoring OWNED: 56% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball Leagues ANALYSIS: Avery Bradley has seen a huge spike in his usage following the trade that sent Jeff Green to the Grizzlies. The 17.6 points and 14.4 shots vacated by Green's departure have to go somewhere […]

Robert Covington (SF/PF, PHI) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 56% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball ANALYSIS: Philadelphia is very thin at the forward position and as a result, Covington has been thrust into the starting lineup where he has taken advantage of this role. The former Tennessee State Tiger's per game over the past five have been 17 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.2 […]

C.J. Miles (SG/SF, IND) - NBA Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues OWNED: 31% of Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball Leagues ANALYSIS: Miles has been given the green light to shoot in Indiana, averaging 17.2 points per game over his past six games and considering Rodney Stuckey watched his minutes dip during the last month and then sat out Wednesday's game in Oakland to […]

Week 2 NBA & Fantasy Basketball Trends, Breakouts, Notes & Player Updates

We are just at the beginning of the NBA season, but there are already a number of important storylines to discuss. Without further ado, here is the first installment of Rotoballer's weekly NBA Roundup.   The Return Of Kobe Bryant Heading into this season, we all didn’t know what to expect when it came to […]