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Working the waiver wire is pivotal to succeeding in fantasy basketball. With so many games, injuries and endless shifts in rotations throughout the marathon campaign, we’ll need to source stats from free agency to maximize imaginary rosters.
A willingness to entertain competition for the last few spots on your fantasy hoops roster can prove rewarding. When curating this fluid collective of statistical contributors, it helps to consider your end-of-bench players in direct competition with the talent floating in free agency.
The goal of this weekly series is to identify players at each position widely available in free agency in ESPN leagues. Some nominations are specialists capable of helping in one or two categories, while others deliver more diverse and important statistical offerings. In the breakdowns below, I’ve ordered players at each position with the priority of acquisition in mind, rather than roster percentage in ESPN leagues.
Point guard
Markelle Fultz, Orlando Magic (rostered in 57.1% of ESPN leagues): The former top pick has proven resilient for Orlando, as he’s developed into the team’s unquestioned top distributor as well as a productive point-of-attack defender via a steady steal rate.
Talen Horton-Tucker, Utah Jazz (9.3%): The departure of Mike Conley has resulted in “THT” becoming a key playmaker for the Jazz; he’s tallied at least six dimes in six of the past seven and should see continued to freedom to create in the coming weeks.
Delon Wright, Washington Wizards (7.7%): It’s rare to make a Ben Zobrist comparison for an NBA guard, but here we are. Zobrist was a famously versatile baseball player capable of playing all over the field, lending him eligibility at a series of positions en route to being a fantasy baseball legend. Wright’s game isn’t quite as special, but his versatile deployment and…
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