Fantasy Basketball Roundtable: Potential ‘silly season’ standouts

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With NBA play resuming on Wednesday, now is a good time to hold a roundtable discussing a few questions that will impact fantasy basketball for the rest of the season. The last question focuses on the “silly season.” Every year, there tend to be a few players who emerge during fantasy playoff time, providing surprisingly positive value. Rotoworld fantasy basketball writers Nick Schlain, Noah Rubin, Raphielle Johnson, and Zak Hanshew offer their picks for the “silly season.”

Pick one low-rostered (below 40 percent in Yahoo leagues) player from each conference that you believe can be a “silly season” standout, and provide a couple of sentences explaining your choices.

Schlain: Caris LeVert (27 percent) and Donovan Clingan (38 percent)

LeVert was traded to Atlanta in a deal with the Cavaliers before the deadline. He’s only played three games with the Hawks but is averaging 15.7 points, seven rebounds, and three assists per game. He’s played over 30 minutes off the bench in two of three games and, in his last game, was just three assists shy of a 20-point triple-double. The Hawks are going nowhere without Jaylen Johnson this year. Trae Young has dealt with an Achilles injury all season and could be shut down before we get to the fantasy playoffs. LeVert is already playing a lot off the bench and could stand to benefit even more from the Hawks succumbing to the “silly season.”

Clingan really should be rostered in more than 40 percent of fantasy leagues. Deandre Ayton is out with a calf injury and will return in mid-March at the earliest. Clingan played 31 minutes against the Nuggets just before the All-Star break and had 17 points and 20 rebounds. With Ayton out for at least the next month, the rookie will have the chance to continue to play a lot and put up some serious numbers. Who knows if the Trail Blazers will even return to Ayton as the starting center when he returns. By then, Clingan will have plenty of opportunity to establish himself as the starter.

Rubin: Bub Carrington (21 percent) and Clingan

Clingan was my first pick in our “silly season” draft on the Rotoworld Basketball Show. You don’t want to let…

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