Ryan Rollins Keeps Destroying | Thursday Fantasy Basketball Recap
NBA Fantasy Basketball waiver wire chaos erupts as Ryan Rollins drops 32 points for the Milwaukee Bucks, Josh Minot sparks bidding wars, and Bilal Coulibaly returns to the Washington Wizards rotation. Thursday’s four-game slate delivers breakout performances, injury complications, and critical roster decisions that reshape fantasy basketball leagues heading into the weekend.
Josh Lloyd breaks down Rollins’ unexpected 21 field goal attempts with Giannis Antetokounmpo sidelined, questioning whether Doc Rivers will maintain his commitment to Kevin Porter Jr. despite this explosion. Desmond Bane’s struggles with the Orlando Magic present a buy-low window, though expectations should reset to top-60 rather than top-30 value. Victor Wembanyama’s 27-point, 18-rebound, 5-block performance against the Miami Heat reinforces his dominance, while Stephon Castle’s career-best outing creates a sell-high opportunity before De’Aaron Fox return to the San Antonio Spurs. The Charlotte Hornets, Golden State Warriors, and Oklahoma City Thunder rotations all face scrutiny as managers navigate short-term streaming versus long-term holds.
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0:00 – Introduction
1:36 – Injury news updates missing
3:38 – Josh Minott waiver wire bids
4:39 – Most added waiver wire players
5:40 – Most dropped waiver wire players
6:42 – Orlando Magic vs Charlotte Hornets
15:21 – Golden State Warriors vs Milwaukee Bucks
20:58 – Oklahoma City Thunder vs Washington Wizards
26:35 – San Antonio Spurs vs Miami Heat
30:41 – Lines of the night
45 Comments
16:10 some slight crackling here
This new format of the box score is more confusing… please get back the older one, it was way more intuitive!
Hong-Kong mattress is too funny 😀
Who to drop, Beal or BroLo? Need to drop one for a waiver wire claim. Both are useful coz we got a deep league.
Should I drop Anthony black and get a streamer center for Friday? Or should I hold on so he doesn’t get picked up for saturdays game
Stick with Gobert or bring in the big Kaulk?
Here for the fantasy news, staying for the nicknames. Shout out to the camcorder legend
the boxscore looks weird
Dropped Divincenzo for Jared Mccain. Was it a good move?
Sound was good Josh.
…who is Michael Bolton?
The new look of the box scores put me off
BARNSEY THE ✏️
not understanding the pods comment. in a pts league he’s averaging 18 fp per game. since when is close to 20 fp not fantasy relevant?
What’s the chance Jeremiah Fears continues to start for the Pels?
Do I drop kpj?
Josh talks about Bilal Coulibaly like he's an 8 year journeyman lol. He's a 21 year old ascending former 7th overall pick why do you talk about him like he has no chance of improving in his 3rd season???
funny i thought it was my browser or speakers this whole time lol. IT's better now!
Ryan Rollins gang!
"cAnAdIaNs IqS aRe LoW" – Josh Lloyd
"I can't figure out how to equalize sounds on videos or get my graphics to work" – also Josh Lloyd
Collin Sexton did what on the bench ?!
$800 out of $1000 bids on Minnot!?Glad I listened to this show and beat out the other managers in my league.
I really hope teams foul Kalkbrenner intentionally.
I want Hack-a-Kalk becoming a thing.
RayJ now available on espn waivers
Dick stays on this dudes mind
Cracking sounds ARE GONE. Ur adjust your mic so its loud and clear
Thank you Josh you work very hard with your team behind the scenes
drafted kpj and had an opportunity to get ryan rollins when kpj went out. now rollins is putting up big numbers and potentially might take the starting spot 🤦♂
10tm espn points league, should I trade Edwards for Jalen Johnson and Donovan Clingan ?
Can we get the old full scoreboards back? It’s cool to see % but tbh, I feel like most regular IQ people can tell what’s good and bad %s just by seeing shots made vs attempted. I want to see the whole line and the added % column now blocks off the last couple stat categories
Obi agrees with you on Rollins and doc being a horrible coach lol
Should I trade Keyonte Okungwu or Kuminga for Brandon Miller
josh i recently blew u off bout making some shooty picks like reaves 3rd pick and others. im blatantly wrong. i respect ur picks down to earth
I was offered Bane for my Jrue Holiday and Rudy Gobert, should I take the deal ? ESPN points league
6777
Someone offered me Booker and cam Johnson for Zion and Quickley. 14T 9Cat should I accept it?
Momma, there goes that crackle. Hand down, man down
I’m in a 180 player espn points league. My worst l three players are collier and holland Tre Johnson (in order worst to best imo) and on the wire there is Gary Trent, Jeremiah fears Derrick lively and Ty Jerome. What should I do should should I proritize
audio sounds great
@LockedOnFantasyBasketball, you don't have the full facts when it comes to Bilal. It is fair that he has seesawed in his career, but the summer stats from Eurobasket are misleading. He injured ligaments in his right thumb in the first game, and played through it with the hand heavily taped. He then aggravated it in the game against Georgia at the end of the run, and that required the surgery. So he was playing left-handed through the tournament.
I agree the stats sucked, but they may not be predictive of Bilal's overall ability. This is a 21-year-old who may have improved as a player. With no Poole and no Kuz, he may be in a good position to break out. We will see, but Bilal is not a lost cause just yet.
Im assuming I shouldn't drop camara, claxton, or cam thomas. I could pick up b mill, poeltl, jaime, collins, jabari and more
Someone offered me Rudy Govert for Norman Powell in a points league. Do I accept?
Just my 2cents, but I don't like the new box score format — I don't need to see fg pct, ft pct, and 3 pt pct as this just clutters things up. listing someone's fg as 4-14 is sufficient, I don't need to see that's 28.6%. Also, having the minutes column next to the points is very confusing. Would vote for having one of them listed on the right side, or maybe coloring one of them
Drop knueppel for Bilal?
When is ware a drop? He has been underperforming and is not getting the minutes we expected also is bilal a must roster in a 10 team league, have kyshawn, minnot, Wendell (short on centers) and ware
Josh "headphone legend" Lloyd