Saddiq Bey (SF, DET): Week 17 Waiver Wire Pickups

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ANALYSIS: Had you asked me back in December who will be making it to the All-Rookie team come season's end, Saddiq Bey would most probably have been absolutely overlooked. I mean, don't blame me. The Nets drafted him with the 19th pick and insta-trade him to Detroit in exchange for (mostly) Landry Shamet in a three-team deal. Then, the Villanova product hit the league running and became one of the more pleasing surprises of this weird season.

Saddiq Bey is not a joke, folks. He's here to stay, and his rookie season is more than enough proof of that. Bey only started seven games here and there for the Pistons in the first two months of the season, but starting on Feb. 14 and up to this day he has yet to come off the bench in any single match he's played. It's been 30 starts in a row, and that won't stop now. As it's happening with other large-minute rookies out there (looking at you, Isaac Okoro) the efficiency and per-minute numbers are bad (0.80 FP/min) but the counting stats can't get much better, even more considering Bey's low 18% usage rate as part of the Pistons starting unit.

Bey is averaging 13+ PPG since Feb. 14 and an even better 15 PGG this month (even though his minutes have actually gone down from 31 to 29 MPG). Bey was an atrocious shooter to kick off his career, but he's now shooting almost 45 percent from the floor, hitting triples nightly (he has played 54 games missing on scoring at least one triple in just 7 of them, only once since Jan. 30), and averaging a ridiculous 3.5 3PG in the last 10 days. Bey is also shooting 85% from the charity stripe, is getting 4 RPG, and getting almost 1 SPG per game. Get some shares before it's too late.

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