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BALLER MOVE: Add in 14-Team Leagues
ROSTERED IN: 31% of leagues
ANALYSIS: Is there a hotter player in the Association these days? No, seriously. In the month of May, all RJ Hampton has played are three games. The average fantasy tally in those three--coming off the pine!--has amounted to a total of 43 FP in just 99 minutes of playing time. Math 101 taught me that those numbers yield an average of almost 1.30 FP/min, which is an absolutely ludicrous mark. What if this Hampton is real, after all?
Orlando, if you remember, opted to ditch every valuable (and tangible) asset they have in town back in March when they traded away all of Nikola Vucevic, Aaron Gordon, and Evan Fournier. The tank is real and the rebuilding process just starting. One of the pieces going to Disneyland was RJ Hampton. Hampton, since becoming a Magic, has only started once and prior to May he had only reached 30+ minutes in a couple of games. This month, though, he's played three with 30, 35, and 31 minutes in the counter. Not bad, indeed. And even better for him and his fantasy GMs, not even those long runs have prevented RJ from putting up massively efficient numbers.
Hampton's lines in May read 18-7-5-2-1, 16-7-10-1-2, and 18-10-5 on Wednesday. The average, just in case, is at 18-7-6-1-1. I told you: no one is hotter this May when it comes to reserves, and I'm not joking. Hampton's performances are ahead of every non-starter this month, with Danilo Gallinari and Jordan Clarkson tied for the second-best players with no starts at a low 34 FPG in four games compared to Hampton's 43. Hampton is a building block for these Magic, and they better give him all the reps they can in a lost season. Steal in most deep leagues at a rather low 31% rostership in all of Yahoo competitions entering the last week of games.
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