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BALLER MOVE: Add in 12-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 36% of leagues
ANALYSIS: While recently-acquired Harry Giles can play minutes at the center position off the bench, Enes Kanter is Portland's no. 2 player at the position in the depth chart. It was just yesterday that Kanter played fewer than 18 minutes for the first time this season, but prior to that he had bottomed at 18:15 and topped at 25:54 for an average of 20.5 MPG. Not bad for a second unit player still available in almost two of every three Yahoo leagues, even more given his points-rebounds upside.
Kanter is far from an otherworldly play, but he's a proven veteran playing for a team that lacks interior presence--Zach Collins underwent surgery a few days ago and should be out for long. That's why Kanter is putting up 10+ PPG to go with 8+ RPG. The line was better until yesterday's low-playing-time match, reading 11-10 and handing Kanter a dub-dub on the season through the first four games of it.
You can forget about Kanter giving you fantasy goodies from the rest of the stat sheet categories, but he's a daily hit on points/rebounds/FG% that doesn't turn the ball over a lot and logs an average 18% usage rate with around 7+ FGA per game.
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