RotoWire Fantasy Basketball Podcast

RotoWire.com, Nick Whalen, Alex Barutha, James Anderson, Ken Crites, Shannon McKeown
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Listen to Nick Whalen, Alex Barutha, Shannon McKeown, Ken Crites, Kirien Sprecher, Brandon Kravitz, Mike Barner and NBA guests from around the league talk fantasy basketball throughout the season.

  1. 2D AGO

    Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire: 8 Must-Add Players for Week of March 9

    Ken and Alex discuss their favorite fantasy basketball waiver wire pickups.  Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:30 Cooper Flagg's return 02:05 Jayson Tatum BACK Friday 07:15 LeBron elbow injury 09:00 Trae Young Wizards debut 11:20 Good health news 13:20 Bad health news 17:10 Listener Q&A 17:35 Who to drop to add Tatum? 20:50 Drop Kuminga/Eason for Prosper/Stewart? 23:08 Kel'el Ware is BACK? 24:35 Is it finally time to drop Myles Turner? 26:50 Porzingis is toxic 27:50 Drop Jerome for Huff? 29:15 Drop Zubac? 30:35 Claxton must roster? 32:00 Yabu or Reese? 33:45 Waiver Wire Adds 34:00 Oso Ighodaro, PHX 35:00 Julian Champagnie, SAS 36:50 Al Horford, GSW 38:50 Javon Small, MEM 40:35 Walter Clayton Jr., MEM 42:20 Guerschon Yabusele, CHI 44:00 Isaiah Jackson, LAC 45:55 Collin Sexton or Tre Jones, CHI 47:20 Old Man Rant 48:55 Promo Code Youtube15 Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up now! Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    50 min

  2. 3D AGO

    10 Players To ADD For Fantasy Basketball Playoffs

    Kirien Sprecher and Adam King discuss news and notes from around the NBA before answering viewer questions, including what to do with Dejounte Murray. 00:00 Intro  00:30 Jayson Tatum  04:45 Dejounte Murray  06:45 Saturday Streamer   09:20 Myles Turner/Precious Achiuwa/Isaiah Hartenstein  10:35 Playoff Streamer  14:40 Wolf/Sharpe/Queta/Vucevic  15:30 GG Jackson 17:10 Anthony Black or Collin Sexton  17:40 Mark Williams 18:45 Roster Multiple Players From Same Team 20:00 GG Jackson  20:30 Jaylin Williams  22:25 Walter Clayton  25:00 Peyton Watson  26:30 Sling TV Ad 27:30 Joel Embiid  28:15 Will Riley/De’Anthony Melton/Dominick Barlow 30:00 ROS Value 31:45 Tyler Herro or Dyson Daniels  32:50 Precious/Queta/Diabate 35:30 Toumani Camara or Marcus Smart 36:50 Do Playoff Matchups Matter?  39:45 Isaiah Jackson  40:40 Mark Williams or Jay Huff? 41:30 Coby White  44:30 Isaiah Collier or Reed Sheppard?  46:00 Ace Bailey  47:15 T.J. McConnell  48:45 Collin Gillespie  50:15 Anthony Black or Kel’el Ware  52:00 Jalen Smith/Tristan Vukcevic 54:00 Grayson Allen Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up now! Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    58 min

  3. 4D AGO

    10 Players To Target During Fantasy Basketball Playoffs

    Kirien Sprecher and Mike Barner discuss players to target ahead of the fantasy basketball playoffs, including what to do with Jarrett Allen. 00:00 Intro 00:45 Matas Buzelis + Josh Giddey 04:45 VJ Edgecombe 06:30 Jarrett Allen  07:45 Devin Booker 10:30 Aaron Gordon 12:10 Sling TV Ad 13:25 Donovan Clingan 16:00 RJ Barrett 17:30 Myles Turner 19:30 Jrue Holiday 21:00 Reed Sheppard 23:00 Ryan Rollins 24:20 Viewer Questions 33:15 ‘What Was That?!?’ Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up now! Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    38 min

  4. 6D AGO

    Monday Mailbag + Our Top Waiver Wire Adds

    Nick Whalen and Alex Barutha recap the top news of the weekend, discuss their biggest waiver wire targets/drops and answer live mailbag questions later in the show. 00:00 Intro + SlingTV ad 01:45 Waiver wire adds 08:15 Norman Powell, Steph Curry, Zach Edey 12:50 Jaylen Brown, Giannis Antetokounmpo 17:30 Answering your fantasy hoops questions 17:45 Who to add/drop? 19:30 Eason, Watson 20:35 Jarace Walker, Kyle Filipowski 21:50 Trae Young’s return 23:20 Stash candidates 26:45 Prepping for the playoffs 29:50 Elijah Harkless, Leonard Miller, Devin Carter 32:00 Ighodaro vs. Mark Williams 35:50 Anthony Black, Isaiah Stewart 37:35 Drop Jalen Green? 39:30 Gordon, Wagner, Ausar, Barrett 40:40 Ja Morant 42:05 Raynaud, Achiuwa, Black 42:25 Trade question 44:25 Who to drop for Poeltl? 44:40 Markkanen, Zubac 45:50 Curry, Zubac, Ajay Mitchell, Jerome 49:35 Is Anthony Davis coming back? 51:40 Drummond, Hendricks, Wolf 53:50 Scoot Henderson 55:35 Isaiah Collier, Santi Aldama 57:00 Queen, Turner Sling Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up now! https://sling-tv.pxf.io/c/1348772/2914433/14334 Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1 hr

  5. FEB 27

    Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups: 8 MUST-ADDS for Week of March 2

    Ken and Alex discuss their favorite fantasy basketball waiver wire pickups. Timestamps 00:00 Start 00:25 Kevin Durant 03:00 Kon Knueppel 04:50 Both LA teams lose, Suns discussion 09:45 Injury Updates 16:50 Listener Q&A 17:05 Bailey, Murray or Tatum? 18:26 Is Jakob Poeltl BACK? 19:19 Drop Bagley for Potter? 20:45 Drop Jerome for Smalls? 22:09 Coby White outlook? 22:00 Diabate or NAW? 23:46 Hendricks, Sims, Carter on wire. Drop Vuk? 24:38 Richards or Yabusele? 26:00 Melton, Eason, Konchar, Potter must roster? 27:58 Watson and Gordon? 30:00 Allen or Podz? 31:05 Drop Porzingis? 32:25 Waiver Wire Adds begin 33:05 Dejounte Murray, NOP 34:50 GG Jackson, MEM 36:25 Gui Santos, GSW 37:30 Jonathan Kuminga, ATL 39:30 Precious Achiuwa, SAC 41:10 Moses Moody, GSW 43:20 Micah Potter, IND 45:10 Javon Small, MEM 47:15 Old Man Rant   Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up now! Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    50 min

  6. FEB 26

    10 Players To ADD Before The Fantasy Basketball Playoffs

    Kirien Sprecher (SprecherRW) and Adam King (Adamking91) break down news and notes from around the NBA before answering viewer questions, including what to do with Alex Sarr.  00:00 Intro  00:35 Keyonte/Kyshawn George 03:00 Isaiah Collier  04:00 Zach Edey/Ajay Mitchell  05:45 Dejounte Murray/Ty Jerome  08:00 Jakob Poeltl  10:00 Jalen Smith 12:10 Jay Huff/Derik Queen/Wendell Carter 14:10 Tristan Vukcevic/Anthony Gill  15:00 Sling TV 15:45 Alex Sarr/MPJ   18:25 Keegan Murray  19:30 Giannis Antetokounmpo  21:30 Josh Giddey   23:30 Melton/Filipowski 25:30 Must-Roster Players 28:40 Jayson Tatum  29:30 Bennedict Mathurin  31:00 Peyton Watson/Aaron Gordon 32:30 Melton/Eason/Sensabaugh 34:00 Derik Queen/Toumani Camara  35:20 Nique Clifford  36:35 Javon Small  38:40 Jalen Johnson  40:05 Coby White/Quentin Grimes  41:30 Nolan Traore 42:15 Eason/Diabate/Poeltl/Scoot  44:00 Kristaps Porzingis  44:45 Andrew Nembhard Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up now! Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    49 min

  7. FEB 25

    10 Players To Drop Before The Fantasy Basketball Playoffs

    Kirien Sprecher (SprecherRW) and Mike Barner (rotomikebarner) break down news and notes from around the NBA before discussing whether to hold or drop key players ahead of the fantasy basketball playoffs, including DeMar DeRozan. 00:00 Intro  00:45 Deni Avdija + Shaedon Sharpe 03:50 Jalen Johnson  06:35 Dejounte Murray  09:25 Amen Thompson  11:20 Sling Ad  12:20 Daniel Gafford  14:00 Jaylon Tyson 15:55 DeMar DeRozan  19:05 Neemias Queta 21:05 Donte DiVincenzo  23:25 Viewer Questions  32:50 ‘What Was That?!?’ Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up now!  Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    37 min

  8. FEB 23

    Biggest Adds of the Week, Teams We Don't Trust + Live Fantasy Basketball Mailbag

    Nick Whalen and Alex Barutha recap the top news of the weekend, including the biggest waiver wire additions across their various leagues. The guys talk Jusuf Nurkic, Maxime Raynaud, Precious Achiuwa, Cam Johnson and more before answering live mailbag questions. 00:00 Intro 02:00 Jusuf Nurkic done for season 03:15 Top waiver adds of the week 06:55 Scotty Pippen not suspended 08:00 Other waiver wire notables 12:00 Nick’s NAW trade 14:00 Bobby Portis + Bucks direction 17:15 Jalen Smith, Shaedon Sharpe 18:55 Scoot Henderson 20:30 Diabate 21:50 Traore 22:50 Porzingis 24:20 Gillespie, Grayson Allen 26:00 DiVincenzo, Anthony Black 27:00 Opportunity in Utah? 27:55 Ajay Mitchell 28:30 Middleton, Moody 30:30 Fair deal for Sengun? 31:25 Dejounte Murray 33:30 Dosunmu, Wolf, Fortis, Traore 25:20 Clifford, Monk, Reed, Prosper, Sensabaugh 37:45 Dunn, Poole, Monk, O’Neale, Kuzma 40:10 Derrick Jones Jr. 41:10 Zubac 42:40 Dillon Brooks, Simons 45:00 Trade Kawhi for SGA? 47:20 Who to trade for Okongwu? 49:00 Melton 49:30 GG Jackson, Jalen Smith 50:25 Kings to stream 50:10 Activating Murray ----- Sling Get your hands on a Sling 1 day, 3 day, or 7 day pass, starting at just $4.99. Sign up now! https://sling-tv.pxf.io/c/1348772/2914433/14334 Get the latest fantasy sports insights, expert analysis, and premium tools at RotoWire.com—enter promo code ROTO15 at checkout to receive 15% off any product.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Listen to Nick Whalen, Alex Barutha, Shannon McKeown, Ken Crites, Kirien Sprecher, Brandon Kravitz, Mike Barner and NBA guests from around the league talk fantasy basketball throughout the season.

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    RotoWire.com, Nick Whalen, Alex Barutha, James Anderson, Ken Crites, Shannon McKeown
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2026
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