Fantasy Basketball Weekly Projections: A Waiver Target at Every Position
Four-game weeks and rising roles highlight this week’s best projection-based adds.
A new week is here, so we'll start it like usual, looking over waiver wire/streaming options based on weekly fantasy basketball projections. We will look at one player from each position.
Check back later for more traditional waiver wire/streaming options for Monday, and check out Monday's streaming article.
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Point Guard - Jeremiah Fears
Fears is projected for 23 fantasy points over four games this coming week. He is rostered in 50% of fantasy leagues right now.
He's continued his late-season surge with three straight double-digit scoring efforts, including a 28-point outburst on the first day of March. Fears has 16 rebounds, 13 assists, five blocks and a steal over those three contests.
The rookie is averaging 13.4 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.2 steals and 0.4 blocks over 25.7 minutes a night on the season. New Orleans is pretty healthy at the moment, but Zion Williamson's absence on Sunday really aided Fears in his 28-point showing.
Fears is a good add in deeper leagues, and some standard leagues as well. He could be worth streaming in way more standard leagues if Williamson or other teammates are out in the games to come.
Shooting Guard - Bilal Coulibaly
Coulibaly is rostered in 45% of fantasy leagues at this time. He's projected for 22.3 fantasy points over four games this week.
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Coulibaly had a pretty good month of March, scoring in double figures in eight of the 11 games he appeared in. He's scored 10 or more points in six of the past seven contests too.
He's starting every game, but his minutes are all over the place. Coulibaly has logged between 22-24 minutes in the past three contests, but has combined for 32 points, 16 rebounds, nine assists and four steals and blocks in those games to provide some fantasy value.
Coulibaly is a better deep-league fantasy asset at those minute totals, but in a pinch, he could be a standard league streaming option. Keep an eye on him in case his minutes/production ever increase, but in a week where he'll play four times, he's worth an add in most deeper leagues.
Small Forward - Tobias Harris
Harris has four games this coming week and is projected for 25.9 fantasy points. He's owned in about 74% of leagues.
Harris scored four points in back-to-back games to start last week, but ended it by tallying 11 and 23 points to trend back up. He combined for 28 rebounds, nine assists, eight steals and two blocks in those four contests.
Harris isn't a flashy young player, but I think he gets kind of overlooked as a veteran. He is averaging 13.2 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1 steal and 0.3 blocks over 28.3 minutes a night on the season, so there's enough fantasy value in those averages.
He's a good deep-league asset and is a streaming option in standard leagues any night the Pistons play and he's active. Harris plays four times this week, so it's a chance to add and hold him for the week, especially considering he's coming off a big showing.
Power Forward - Kyle Kuzma
Kuzma is projected for 24.9 fantasy points and has four games this week. He's rostered in 56% of leagues right now.
Kuzma has scored in double figures in four straight. He had 17 points in two games, 19 in another and then 10 in his last effort. Kuzma has combined for 15 rebounds, 11 assists and two steals over those four contests.
He's picking up more as Giannis Antetokounmpo continues to miss games. Antetokounmpo still doesn't have a timetable to return, so Kuzma will remain a fantasy asset until that point.
Kuzma is worth deep-league adds, or at least streams, and he could be a standard league streaming option as well if you have a need.
Center - Wendell Carter Jr.
Carter is rostered in about 70% of fantasy leagues right now and is projected for 25.6 fantasy points over four games this week.
He tallied just four points in his last game, but had 16, 20 and 15 in the three games before that. Carter combined for 40 rebounds, eight assists, two steals and a block in those contests.
On the scoring and rebounding alone, there's fantasy value to take advantage of with Carter. He's taking on a bit more with Franz Wagner out of the rotation right now.
Carter is a sneaky-good fantasy option, and with four games on tap this week, he could be a standard league option. At least consider streaming him for his games this coming week.
