Reggie Bullock (SF, DAL) - Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 18

BALLER MOVE: Add in 14+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 2% of leagues

ANALYSIS: The massacre perpetrated in Dallas in the effort to land Kyrie Irving was expected to be fixed before the trade deadline... but it never came to happen. I'm talking, of course, of the Mavericks trading away every living breathing forward in their rotation in exchange for another guard and bucket-getter in Kyrie without adding any single defender. Alas: veteran Reggie Bullock is now a staple in Texas.

Don't get that wrong, though. Bullock has already played 55 games this season, starting 33 of those, so it's not that he's going from zero to hero here. Bullock has logged 30 MPG this season either starting or playing off the pine, and that will most probably stay the same ROS no matter his role going forward.

Bullock, though, had not started a game since January 15 before the Kyrie trade while he's now been on the first unit for the last three games (all of them played this week), getting 34, 41, and 37 minutes of run. Not bad!

Digging deeper into Bullock's season, you find out that he started all first 18 games of the year but only averaged around 27 MPG for the first two months of play. From December 10 on, though, Bullock has averaged a much healthier 33 MPG, including a bonkers 36 MPG on average in February (five games) alone through Friday.

Bullock's shooting prowess has returned through the last month after he went through a slump earlier this season. If the last three games, all of them post-Kyrie-trade, are a sign of his future in Dallas, then that's something to take massive advantage of. He's averaged 14+ PPG to go with 4+ RPG, 3+ APG, and two SPG while scoring 12 total 3PM and shooting 15-of-31 overall from the floor on a low (spot-up-shooting) 13.5% usage rate.

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