NBA Waiver Wire Options Heating Up as Weekend Approaches

It's time for another round of fantasy basketball waiver wire options!

Here are our waiver stories from Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, plus a Friday streaming article.

Waiver wire options can be found all season on FantasySP!

Brandon Williams and Marvin Bagley III: Mavericks On the Rise

Williams and Bagley are a pair of Dallas players on the rise today. Williams is up 12.46% and now sits at 53.82% overall, while Bagley has been added in 6.94% of leagues and is owned in 57.79% overall.

Williams has had a pretty solid season overall for the Mavs, but he's really stepped it up of late. He's scored 13 or more points in five straight games, and has scored in double figures in 11 of the last 12 games and 19 of the past 22.

Over the past five games, he's averaging 16 points, 6.4 assists, 2.2 rebounds, 0.8 steals and 0.6 blocks over 25 minutes a contest. Williams is averaging 12.9 points, 3.9 assists, 2.8 rebounds, 1 steal and 0.2 blocks over 22.2 minutes over 50 games (12 starts) this season.

With Kyrie Irving out for the season and Cooper Flagg out of late, Williams has held down the backup point guard role in Dallas. Despite coming off the bench most games, he's been able to keep delivering enough for fantasy relevance.

At this point, he's a very good deep-league fantasy asset, and I'd at least be streaming him in those leagues. Williams is worth some standard league streams as well, at least until his production starts to fade a bit.

Bagley is picking up some slack with the likes of Daniel Gafford, Dereck Lively II and P.J. Washington banged up, and he's able to do a bit more as well without Irving or Flagg around.

Bagley has scored in double figures in four straight games, the last of which he started. Over that stretch, he's averaged 14.8 points, 9.5 rebounds, 0.8 blocks, 0.5 assists and 0.3 steals over 24.8 minutes a night. 

Being a double-double threat is enough to have Bagley be rostered in all deeper leagues, and it also makes him a standard league streaming option. Consider him and utilize Bagley until his production or role dips.

Moussa Diabate: Back from Suspension and Delivering

Diabate is rostered in 78.47% of leagues after an 8.3% increase so far today.

Diabate has returned from his four-game suspension, having played in the last two games for the Hornets. He had nine points, seven rebounds, five assists and three steals and blocks in 30 minutes in his first game back, then posted 14 points, 11 rebounds, four assists and two steals over nearly 30 minutes in the second game.

He is averaging 8.3 points, 8.6 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1 block and 0.7 steals over 25.3 minutes a night on the season, but has delivered more of late. Charlotte isn't really missing any big-time players at power forward/center, so Diabate could be able to replicate his recent success a bunch as the season winds down.

Diabate needs to be owned in all deeper leagues, and he's a streaming option in standard leagues after what he's done of late. Compare his numbers to the players near the end of your bench, because Diabate has really been a nice asset of late, and could help you as the season starts to wind down.

Micah Potter: Big Man Trending Up

Potter has been added in 6.75% of leagues, bringing his overall mark to 22.38% overall.

He's had a pretty solid month of February, scoring in double figures in six of the 10 games he's appeared in - he's reached double figures in six of the past seven contests.

Potter is averaging 15 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1 steal and 0.6 blocks over 25.7 minutes a night in the past seven games. Over 27 games this season, Potter is averaging 9 points, 4.4 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 0.5 steals and 0.3 blocks over 19.7 minutes a night.

With his expanded role and numbers of late, Potter has turned into a pretty good deep-league asset. In a pinch, he could be a standard league streaming option, but that'd be more for a short-term add, so if you are looking for a long-term option, I'd be looking elsewhere.

Noah Clowney: More Production in Bigger Role

Clowney has seen his own percentage go up 5.3% today, which ups it to 36.83% overall.

Clowney has scored in double figures in three straight games, tallying 11, 22 and 12 points in those contests. He has combined for 11 rebounds, two assists, four steals and one block over those games as well.

He's averaging 12.9 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.7 blocks over 28.4 minutes on the season, which has spanned 52 games. So while Clowney can score it at a decent clip, his lack of other stats holds him back a bit as a fantasy asset.

He's another guy who is just a deep-league fantasy option right now. Again, he could be a standard league streaming option, but that's only in a pinch, and I wouldn't be expecting him to stick as a standard league asset for very long.