"We've reached the holiday season in the NBA, which includes one of the more exciting days in the early NBA season with the Christmas Day slate. But there are no games scheduled on Christmas Eve, which affects the schedule for the rest of the week and makes game availability more of a premium in fantasy leagues. With no games on Wednesday and only five on Thursday, there will be quite a few teams playing only twice this week."
"Gillespie has been in this space multiple times this season, for how he stepped up when Devin Booker and/or Grayson Allen were out. But both have since returned, and Gillespie continues to produce. Maybe the next test case is when Jalen Green eventually returns, but Gillespie has carved out a consistent role for the Suns as a shooter/scorer that can consistently average in the upper teens in scoring with strong 3-pointers and steals and a handful of both assists and rebounds."
The NBA schedule around Christmas includes no games on Christmas Eve and only five games on Thursday, creating many teams that play only twice during the holiday week. Fantasy leagues therefore face constrained game availability, increasing the value of streaming and waiver-wire pickups to maintain games-played totals. Lightly-rostered players who seize expanded roles when starters are out can provide scoring, 3-pointers, steals and ancillary counts like assists and rebounds. Examples include Collin Gillespie for the Phoenix Suns, who has produced consistent upper-teen scoring, 3s and steals even after starters returned, and Dennis Schroder splitting point guard duties in Sacramento.
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