Celtics Fantasy Basketball Check-In: Anfernee Simons, Neemias Queta, Jaylen Brown and More

After about a month of play, I wanted to start putting together some fantasy basketball overviews of teams around the NBA.

We'll start with the Boston Celtics, who are 8-7 and sit 10th in the Eastern Conference so far. Let's check out the team's top performers so far, plus take a look at injuries and more.

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Top Fantasy Players and Stats

It's no surprise to see Jaylen Brown atop the fantasy leaderboard in Boston. He's followed pretty closely by Derrick White though.

Payton Pritchard is third on the team in fantasy points, while Neemias Queta comes in fourth. Anfernee Simons is a distant fifth.

Josh Minott, Luka Garza, Sam Hauser, Jordan Walsh and Hugo Gonzalez round out the top 10, and conveniently are the rest of the team's players with over 100 fantasy points so far.

White, Piritchard, Brown, Simons, Queta and Hauser have all played 15 games so far, which is half the battle for fantasy basketball value nowadays. Minott and Garza are at 14 games each, while Walsh, Gonzalez and Baylor Scheierman have played in 11 games each.

White leads the team in minutes per game (32.9), followed by Pritchard (32.1) and Brown (32.1). Nobody else has averaged over 30 minutes a game, and nobody else even is at 25.

Brown is the leader in points per game (27.5), while Pritchard is second at 16.7 points. White (15.9) and Simons (13.3) are in double figures as well.

Queta is at 9.1 points per game, and he leads the team at 8.1 rebounds per game. Nobody else is really doing a ton of rebounding, with Brown next at 5.5 boards a game. Minott is at 5.2 boards a game, and is the last one over five rebounds a game.

White leads the team in assists per game (5.3), with Pritchard at five per game. Brown (4.1) is the only other guy even over three assists per game.

White also leads Boston with 1.7 steals per game. Minott is at a steal per game, while everyone else is averaging less than a steal a game.

Queta leads the teams in blocks (1.5), with White (1.3) right behind him. Nobody else is over a block per game.

Injury Report

You can tell from the games played that Boston has been mostly healthy this season. Of course, Jayson Tatum is out for the season (most likely) with his Achilles injury, and that's a big part of the reason why Boston has regressed this season.

The team trading away Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis in the offseason has also slowed the Celtics this season. It's almost like this is a throwaway year, but there's still probably enough talent on the team to compete for a play-in playoff spot yet.

That can only come true if the team's top-end talent stays healthy, which has happened to this point. Long-term injuries to Brown, White, Pritchard or Queta would likely have the team outside the playoff hunt in a hurry.

Fantasy Outlook

Brown and White are easily the top fantasy players on the Celtics this season, so those are the two guys you want to own.

Pritchard is third in fantasy value, and should be rostered in all fantasy leagues. He's not a nightly starter though, although he could get there with some improved play going forward.

Simons probably has the next-most fantasy value after that, but he's failed to live up to preseason expectations, and he's been dropped in a bunch of leagues now. He's currently owned in 68% of leagues.

He's playing enough most nights to have fantasy value, he's just not producing enough. The opportunities are there, and an injury to Brown, White or Pritchard could open the door for Simons, so don't write him off as a standard league option. He's really a better deep-league asset right now.

Queta has seen his fantasy value rise over the course of the season, but he's still at just 70% rostered, so there's more he needs to do to get into all fantasy leagues. The first step would be playing more, so we'll see if that ever comes and the production follows.

Minott, Hauser, Garza, Walsh, Gonzalez and everyone else on the Celtics are just deep, deep league fantasy assets right now. They are worth tracking in those deeper leagues and adding/streaming when they get in grooves as fantasy assets.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Boston do some in-season transactions, so this probably won't be the last time we go over the Celtics and their top fantasy assets.

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