Tag: fantasy basketball

Fantasy NBA waiver wire: Jalen McDaniels and Bojan Bogdanovic highlight this week’s must-adds

Hit the wire!

The fantasy NBA season is off and running, and you likely haven’t had a chance to process it all. From the fun opening-week games to the random Sunday morning contests that linger behind the NFL’s shadow, there’s just so much going on in the NBA world that’s hard to keep up with.

But we’ve been keeping an eye on everything so that you don’t have to. And today, we’ve got a few players in mind that you might want to consider picking up and putting on your rosters.

Here are five waiver pick-ups to make after the NBA’s opening week of games.

Paolo Banchero, Jaden Ivey and the top 10 rookies to invest in ahead of the fantasy basketball season

Ranking the top 10 rookies for the fantasy basketball season.

When thumbing through the many NBA players ahead of and during fantasy drafts, it’s easy to get caught up in the big names. You’re looking for the all-around dominant players like the Giannis Antetokounmpo’s and Nikola Jokic’s of the world before pivoting to the specialists you can rely on.

Often lost in the sauce are the rookies — partially due to general unawareness of the players, and partially due to the unknown of whether they can produce at the highest level.

But there are no excuses over here. Get to know these 10 NBA rookies and consider rostering them ahead of the season. They might provide some value.

10 last-round sleepers to target who could help you win your fantasy basketball league

Don’t fill the end of your roster with junk!

It’s fantasy NBA season and here at Bet For the Win, we’ve got what you need to dominate your season.

Need sleepers? We got ’em.

How about injured players to keep an eye on? Got those, too.

And as the season gets underway, we’ll have plenty more in store.

Until then, we’ve got more draft stuff for you. Yeah, we know, the end of the draft is usually a drag — you’ll probably queue up some picks for the auto-draft to make as you’re half paying attention.

We’re not here to judge. And if you’re going that route, at least make sure you’ve got the right players being put on your team. They can help you win!

So, here we present you with 10 last-round picks to target.

9 fantasy basketball sleepers to target in your 2022 draft

Don’t sleep on these players!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the 2022-23 NBA regular season is less than two weeks away. And as the balls are bouncing throughout the preseason, people like you and me are scrambling in preparation for fantasy drafts.

The top few rounds are fairly easy to make good picks — a superstar here and a quality starting player there — but the real league winners figure out how to nail the back half for the draft.

There are plenty of players who get glossed over because of injury history, they play on bad teams, or because they simply haven’t broken out yet. We call those guys the fantasy basketball sleepers, and we’ve got a list of them for you to keep an eye on to fill out your rosters.

The 8 best 2022 fantasy basketball team names (that we could print)

Let’s help you name your fantasy basketball team.

The NBA season is just around the corner, with the 2021-22 league year tipping off on Oct. 18.

Which means it’s time for you to start up your fantasy basketball research.

And THAT, in turn, means … it’s time to start coming up with the perfect team name for your fantasy squad.

That’s where we come in. As we’ve done with other sports like fantasy football, we’re rounding up the best, punny team names (that we could print), a collection of gems from around the internet, with credit to the sites and tweets that came up with them.

Here they are, in no particular order:

OKC Thunder finishes with four players in top-150 fantasy player rankings

Should the Thunder have had more players on the list?

The 2022-23 regular season is slowly but surely approaching with the schedule release being a milestone recently reached.

With a new NBA season comes a new NBA fantasy season. Fantasy sports value players a bit different than real life does. Collecting basic stats such as points, rebounds, assists, blocks and steals is all that matters.

Despite being a young and exciting team, the Oklahoma City Thunder have only four players in the top 150 fantasy player rankings. Let’s take a look at who made the list.

  • No. 32 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: Injuries have hindered SGA’s upside in each of the last two seasons. Drafting the 24-year-old is a risk until proven otherwise.
  • No. 66 Chet Holmgren: One of the unique prospects in recent memory; Holmgren has the two-way skill set to be the best fantasy player in the 2022 draft class. Long-term, Holmgren’s upside is tantalizing.
  • No. 80 Josh Giddey: Despite shooting 26.3% from 3, Giddey managed to rank inside the top-100 in per-game value as a rookie. If he gets his shot ironed out, he could finish much higher.
  • No. 124 Lu Dort: He continues to make strides as a scorer but will probably not be asked to become a playmaker with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Josh Giddey in the fold.

This list is about right. Nobody else on the Thunder will really get a chance to collect raw stats on a consistent basis that would be worthy enough of a fantasy roster spot.

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Women’s basketball is finally getting the full-scale fantasy treatment this spring

ESPN Fantasy is adding season-long fantasy WNBA games.

Women’s basketball is finally getting the full-scale fantasy treatment and it couldn’t come quick enough.

ESPN is launching ESPN Fantasy Women’s Basketball in early April for signups ahead of the May 6 start of 2022 WNBA season, the company announced Tuesday. It will be the first season-long fantasy game dedicated to a major women’s sport by any major national platform.

Like other fantasy games, the women’s basketball version will offer customizable settings for number of teams, scoring formats, roster options and public and private league options. It will also be supported with analytical tools and editorial insights to help with roster decisions, according to ESPN.

Now, the only questions is who to take first in your upcoming fantasy women’s basketball draft?

Tina Charles…Breanna Stewart…Jonquel Jones? Really can’t go wrong either way.

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9 fantasy basketball sleepers to target in your 2021 draft

Some names to target in your draft.

The NBA season is around the corner — I know, it snuck up on me too — with the 2021-22 slate set to tip off on October 19 with the Brooklyn Nets visiting the Milwaukee Bucks and the Golden State Warriors playing the Los Angeles Lakers.

That means it’s … FANTASY BASKETBALL SEASON! WOOO!

If you’ve got a draft, that means you’re probably searching around for some sleepers to finish out your picks and get some of that late-round value. That’s what this list is for, a look at some under-the-radar names that could give you some studs late.

Here they are, with a mix of some vets and young guys who could break out:

9 fantasy basketball sleepers to target in your 2020 draft

Some names to consider late.

In case you forgot (I know you didn’t), the 2020-21 NBA season is fast approaching, with games tipping off on Dec. 22 and of course there’s a whole slate of Christmas Day games.

If you do fantasy basketball, you’re probably done giving your team a fun name, so now it’s time for some draft prep and research. That’s where this list comes in: a look at some of the late-round sleepers you can queue up who could out-produce their average draft position this season.

Here are a bunch of names to consider when your pick comes up late in your fantasy hoops draft.

(All ADPs courtesy of Fantasy Pros.)

The 9 best 2020 fantasy basketball team names (that we could print)

It’s fantasy hoops SZN!

That’s right: after a super-quick draft and free agency period, the 2020-21 NBA season is coming at us fast, with a late-December start and a slate of awesome Christmas day games just around the corner.

And that means … it’s fantasy basketball season again! WAHOO!

That means you’re working on your preseason research, and so we have to help you out with your all-important team name as we’ve done for the past few years with the best, punniest monikers for your squad (at least the ones we could print).

Here are the names we found from around social media and the internet (we linked to the sites that gave us some good ones):