Shabazz Napier (PG/SG, MIN): Week 12 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add In 12-Team Leagues

OWNED IN: 20% of leagues

ANALYSIS: If you are more than an average basketball fan and NBA follower, you surely know Shabazz Napier. At the end of the day, Napier was a first-round draftee but he never truly seemed to pan out in his first five seasons in the league. This year, playing for Minnesota, his role was always going to be that of a reserve and that's why from Oct. 23 to Dec. 18 he played 14 games off the bench. Things changed on Dec. 20 when he started his first game for the franchise and took a turn for the great during Napier last three games in which the guard has been able to score at least 20 points each time.

This three-game streak of scoring 20-plus points has been the best in Napier's 2019 season and although we can't expect him to keep putting up those numbers nor logging these minutes (31-plus in each of those) he's truly find his place in a more-than-injured Wolves roster. On a larger role, Napier has finished those three contest with lines of 24-3-8, 22-6-3, and 20-3-7 to which he has added four steals and two blocks combined in all those three matches. Napier has attempted an average of 14.3 field goal attempts in his last four and hit them at a massive 58.7 percent clip in his last three. The triples are there too with an average of three per game in this late span.

Until the rotation gets healthy again (most of all Jeff Teague) Napier is more than worth an add in deep leagues, and that might take another week or more to become a reality so you can still get Shabazz and ride his hot streak while it lasts.