Alec Burks (PG/SG/SF, NYK): Week 13 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 55% of leagues

ANALYSIS: I guess there are no doubts left regarding where the Knicks are at in their process to contention after what happened in 2021 and the start of 2022: nowhere close to the chip, that's where. The Knicks are a borderline play-in team sitting at the 10th seed of the Eastern Conference. They decided to bring Kemba Walker to town this summer... only to then remove him from the rotation entirely, welcome him back, and see him score 40+ points. It's now Alec Burks starting at the point, and being honest, that's probably the best news for NY.

Burks became the starting point guard of the Knicks all the way back on Nov. 27 and he held onto that privilege until Dec. 23 missing on starting the team's Christmas Game (see, the Knicks...). He came off the pine for five straight, but he's already started two in a row through Saturday playing 36 and 38 minutes and doing a little bit of everything, for the good and for the bad. Burks put up a solid 14-6-4-3 line against Indy in the first of those two games, but then forgot about scoring points and finished with a 3-9-7-1 contribution in edging Boston last Thursday.

If the rotation stabilizes and Burks stays as the starting point guard, we could very well expect some 15-5-3-1 baseline from the guard/wing. That's mostly because Burks is not your typical point guard, so he will suffer at some of the things a point does (mainly, dishing out dimes) but excel at other rarer such as grabbing boards. All things considered, Burks should be rostered in pretty much every league and comes with good-not-great percentages, tons of triples, slightly bouncy point outcomes, and huge stealing numbers (1.2 SPG on the year, 1.4 since Nov. 27 when he started his first game of the year).

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