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🚨 MID-WEEK STREAMING GUIDE 🔖 BOOKMARK this thread to WIN the next 9 days in fantasy basketball 📅 2 windows covered: ➡️ THIS WEEK: Wed 3/18 – Sun 3/22 ➡️ 9-DAY LOOK-AHEAD: Wed 3/18 – Thu 3/26 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 THIS WEEK (Wed–Sun) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏀 All teams play 2-3 games ✅ Teams with 3 games - ATL - BKN - BOS - DEN - GSW - HOU - LAC - LAL - MEM - MIN - NOP - PHX - POR - TOR - UTA - WAS ✅ Teams with 2 games - CHA, CHI, CLE, DAL, DET - IND, MIA, MIL, NYK, OKC - ORL, PHI, SAC, SAS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 9-DAY WINDOW (Wed–next Thu) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏀 Teams have between 4-5 games ✅✅ Teams with 5 games - ATL, BKN, DEN, DET, GSW - HOU, LAC, LAL, MEM, NOP - ORL, POR, TOR, UTA ✅ Teams with 4 games - BOS, CHA, CHI, CLE, DAL - IND, MIA, MIL, MIN, NYK - OKC, PHI, PHX, SAC, SAS, WAS B2Bs, Best Streaming Days, Best Streaming Teams below⬇️⬇️

@TrvndyTay good catch. Messed it up in the title but the analysis is for the Grizz

@BaruthaAlex Hendricks on the grizzlies

🔥 MOST ADDED Players on Yahoo Today (March 20) #FantasyBasketball 🏀 🔵 Gary Payton II, Warriors 🔵 ✅ Must Add: Deep Leagues 🌊 Stream/Soft Add: Standard/Shallow Leagues 📊 Good in Points Leagues (1.1 FP/min) ✍️ The Warriors are on the front end of a back-to-back, playing Detroit tonight before going to Atlanta. With Steph Curry and Moses Moody notably still out, Payton's role should remain expanded. He's been an underrated fantasy asset, averaging 13/6/2 with 2 STL and 57 FG% in 23 MPG across his past 7 games. Stream him in for the B2B, but consider holding him if you're in a deep league or you need steals in a standard league. 🟣 Taylor Hendricks, Jazz 🟣 ✅ Must Add: Deep Leagues 🌊 Stream/Soft Add: Standard/Shallow Leagues 📊 Weak in Points Leagues (0.7 FP/min) ✍️ Another player who is/was severely under-rostered is Hendricks. Now is an especially good time to add him, with the Grizzlies on the front end of a B2B (BOS, CHA). Memphis then plays every other day before a B2B next Friday/Saturday, so Hendricks needs to be considered as a medium-term hold even in shallow leagues. Across his past 11 games, Hendricks is averaging 13/5/2 with 1.5 STL and 1.4 BLK in 25 MPG. He's also hitting 1.7 3PM and shooting 51 FG%. He played both ends of a B2B on March 12/13 too, so he's not much of a rest risk despite playing for the Grizzlies. ⚫️ Chaney Johnson, Nets ⚫️ ✅ Must Add: Some Deep Leagues for Rebounds/Stocks 🌊 Stream/Soft Add: Deep/Standard/Shallow Leagues 📊 Good in Points Leagues (0.9 FP/min) ✍️ Ty Jerome is technically the 3rd-most added player, but I think we all know the story with him, and Johnson is close behind in total adds while being just 3% rostered. He's on a two-way contract with the Nets but is at no risk of reaching his games maximum. Over the past 5 games, he's averaging 9/6/2 with 1.0 STL in 24 MPG. At the very least, he's a potential deep league stream, as the Nets have three games in four nights, playing today, Sunday and Monday. In 40 G League appearances this year, he played 26 MPG and averaged 14/6/2 with 2.6 STK. He's a bit like a Sandro Mamukelashvili type but a bit more of a scrapper. I think Johnson, besides just being a streaming add, is good for rebounds and stocks categories. 🏀 Rest of Top 10 4. Ty Jerome 5. Mitchell Robinson 6. Ayo Dosunmu 7. Christian Braun 8. Daniss Jenkins 9. Bones Hyland 10. Olivier-Maxence Prosper

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He's not playing major minutes or starting regularly, but Taylor Hendricks is finally starting to make waves during the fantasy playoffs 🌊🌊👀👀🤑🤑 @BaruthaAlex and I discussed why you should pick Hendricks up, plus much more, on today's @RotoWireNBA Fantasy Basketball Podcast 🎙️🎙️

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@BaruthaAlex @ESPNFantasy basketball does not have Chaney Johnson in their player pool 👎

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@McocTafre Maybe he doesnt play a B2B but he's steady otherwise in minutes

@BaruthaAlex It’s great but he plays for the Griz 🥲 incredibly hard to trust the minutes and they’re gonna play 2 good teams

✅️ This is Taylor Hendricks

🚨 92% of you are SLEEPING on a TOP-50 player 🤫 Since Feb. 23, he's QUIETLY... 📈 1 of 2 players: 17+ STL & 15+ BLK 📈 1 of 8 players: 52 REB, 19 3PM at 51% FG 📈 Outscoring: Jaquez, Vassell & Jerami Grant in FP/G 🚀 Ranked 48th in total 8-cat value Can you name him?👇

@tylen0l02 mostly assists and steals

@BaruthaAlex Is daniss good for cats?

🔥 MOST ADDED Players on Yahoo Today (March 19) #FantasyBasketball 🏀 🔵 Daniss Jenkins, Pistons 🔵 ✅ Must Add: Standard Leagues 🌊 Stream/Soft Add: Shallow Leagues 📊 Good in Points Leagues (1.0 FP/min) ✍️ Cade Cunningham was diagnosed with a collapsed lung and could easily be out until the postseason. That creates an opportunity for Jenkins to step into an increased role that we saw him thrive in earlier in the year. In his 8 games as a starter, he's averaged 15/3/7 with 1.3 STL in 31 MPG. His efficiency wasn't the best, but that's to be expected. The Pistons have a B2B today/tomorrow, then play again Monday, Wednesday and a low-volume (3-day) Thursday. So, even in shallow leagues, he's a viable medium-term add. 🟣 Oso Ighodaro, Suns 🟣 ✅ Must Add: Deep Leagues 🌊 Stream/Soft Add: Standard/Shallow Leagues 📊 Good in Points Leagues (0.9 FP/min) ✍️ Phoenix plays San Antonio tonight, followed by a Saturday/Sunday back-to-back. After some subpar performances, Ighodaro has bounced back lately and is coming off a season-best effort of 16/10/4/3 in 34 minutes against the Timberwolves. Before that, he played 33 minutes and had 4/4/8/2. He was likely dropped in a lot of leagues but should be picked back up in deep formats especially. In standards, he's more of a soft add but might be worth jumping on early for the three games in four nights. 🔴 Will Riley, Wizards 🔴 ✅ Must Add: Deep Leagues 🌊 Stream/Soft Add: Standard/Shallow Leagues 📊 Weak in Points Leagues (0.8 FP/min) ✍️ Riley is one of only 5 Wizards who have appeared in each of the past 5 games, and he's the only one of those seeing at least 28 minutes during this stretch. He's been on this run for a while though, averaging 15/4/3 in 33 MPG across his past 13 games, with his last missed game coming in early January. Washington has three games in four nights, playing tonight against the Pistons, following by a Saturday/Sunday back-to-back. He can't be on waivers in deep leagues, and is close to a must-add in standards but more of a must-stream when the schedule lines up. 🏀 Rest of Top 10 4. Bub Carrington 5. Ousmane Dieng 6. Brice Sensabaugh 7. Ty Jerome 8. Bobby Portis 9. Gary Payton 10. Moussa Diabate

@PupperScoops I would hold Santos. I think he's better enough to where I'm fine with 1 less game

@BaruthaAlex Would you drop Gui Santos for Daniss Jenkins if you get 8 games from DJ vs 7 from Santos over the next 2 weeks (playoff finals).

@kennycruz226 @RotoWire No. Da Silva is better in general but also has a much better fantasy schedule for the next 9 days

@BaruthaAlex @RotoWire Would you drop Da Silva for Riley?

@JaviSanHoops kidding 😉

@BaruthaAlex @UnderdogNBA @Anthony_Chiang What do you mean why lol

Heat expected to release Terry Rozier "in the coming weeks," per @Anthony_Chiang. Miami intends to open a roster spot for a depth addition ahead of the playoffs.

@Okie_KJ Really hard for me to actually endorse but I wouldn't blame you

@BaruthaAlex Would you drop Giannis? Don’t think he will play in back to backs even if he comes back. Don’t want to hold on to him if I can get Daniss.

@user7393725294 Agreed on Riley

@BaruthaAlex In a pts league will riley champagne or bub. I feel Will Riley has the safest role so initial lean is him

for reference, CJ McCollum missed 12 games (roughly 25 days) with this same issue in 2023