Last Updated on February 9, 2026 6:02 pm by Aaron Bruski | Published: February 9, 2026

We are at the two-thirds mark of the fantasy basketball season and the Bruski 150 Waiver Wire plays for Week 15 are here!

Every week outside of the paywall, I gift you FIVE PLAYERS and then NBA FantasyPass subscribers get the rest (28 TOTAL PICKUPS)

I also rank stashes, provide streamers and also list out players that I’m staying away from, plucking this data from the high stakes leagues that I compete in as well as SportsEthos leagues.

*Waiver Wire Rank in Parenthesis

*Since this article has essentially turned into a database of players, if a player is not mentioned below they are probably a must-roster player in 150-player standard formats.

*3 GAMES BEFORE THE BREAK: LAKERS, BUCKS, THUNDER, BLAZERS, JAZZ

Sandro Mamukelashvili

PF, Toronto Raptors

(2) Mamukelashvili has had some detractors but with top 60-90 value over the last 30 games or so one has to wonder if they are even paying attention. 13 points, two triples, six rebounds, two assists, 1.7 combined defensive stats on 54.1% shooting with 0.9 turnovers per game in 25.6 MPG. It’s doubtful that Jakob Poeltl comes in and plays more than 25 MPG even if he feels good and Collin Murray-Boyles isn’t replacing what Mamu does on the floor.

Perhaps he loses a round or two of value and because of the nature of cash counting stats (3PM/STL/BLK) being variable, there may be some dips but that’s why we have this thing called math to help smooth all of that out.

Justin Champagnie

SG, Washington Wizards

(3) Champagnie has been a late round value through the worst of it over the last two months, including a really bad week before the trade deadline where he may have been being held out during a DNP and some otherwise terrible games. Now that the trade deadline has passed he is back to putting up big time numbers with top 40-50 value over the last three games including a very interesting 15 of 15 from the foul line.

He doesn’t get mentioned in the team’s press releases regarding who they value as young players, but having Marvin Bagley and Khris Middleton exit stage left open the door for him and it feels like he can navigate this thing to potential top-75 value and if they ever cut him all the way loose early round value isn’t out of the question.

Dylan Cardwell

C, Sacramento Kings

(4) I saw Cardwell in the preseason and first few weeks and had the same reaction that I’ve had to other elite athletes. As predicted here a few weeks back he has taken the ball and run with it, posting another top 50 week this past week and the bottom line is that he is going to play every night and at worst he gets something like 20 MPG and also has an off-night every so often. He has been a late-round value for the last two months in 21.8 MPG with 1.8 blocks, 0.7 steals, eight rebounds and good efficiency. He’s only going to improve as he starts playing in the 24-30 minute range while the Kings tank and if he posted top-50 numbers the rest of the way it wouldn’t be shocking.

Marvin Bagley III

PF, Dallas Mavericks

(7) Bagley isn’t as good of a fantasy asset as Moussa Cisse mostly because we just know that he will never block shots or defend like Cisse can. But Bagley might be the man of the moment in Dallas and I have been viewing him as the bridge to Moussa Cisse since he arrived, even if the situation is certainly a thorn in the side of my Moussa Cisse plans. My hope is that both Bagley and Cisse hold down the center minutes and that Bagley can hold down top-100 value and then Cisse can climb the ladder beyond that in his 24 MPG.

Of course, Bagley has all sorts of injury risk and if Dallas has any brains, they are going to find out what Cisse can do while anybody with the basketball brain already knows what Bagley can and cannot do. And all of that said, Bagley is kind of writing a wave right now of not being dead money and Dallas might be writing a Duke connection with Cooper Flagg.

Moussa Cisse

C, Dallas Mavericks

(8) Cisse is about 10 days from some sort of a determination being made on his rest of season contract and I believe between that and the buyout deadline this is what we are waiting for.

But first, get a sense of the case I’ve been making for Cisse from this past week:

Moussa Cissé is an elite athlete —

Look at the way he gets up. 🤯

(via @ESPNNBA)

pic.twitter.com/M2L6jf3BtT

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) February 1, 2026

Marvin Bagley is the player to choose if you need production right now but if you have any ability to stash getting March and April with Moussa Cisse leading the tank in Dallas could be transformational stuff. Bagley had a big game upon arriving in Dallas and my thinking is that he will replace the Dwight Powell minutes, and then Khris Middleton as a buyout candidate among a few others, maybe even including Bagley though it seems doubtful, helps get us to that Cisse deal.

Of course, Daniel Gafford also needs to exit stage left and that probably looks like one bad ankle turn in March to help assure that along. I’ve been adding Bagley where I can to help bridge the gap and nothing I have seen out of Cisse in NBA or G league games has taken me off of believing he has immense upside in reality basketball, therefore giving the pretext for fantasy value.

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I’m a father, husband and friend. Also, a high stakes fantasy basketball player and I’ve been working in fantasy sports since the turn of the century. Before founding SportsEthos, I spent nearly a decade at Rotoworld building their NBA operation, where we won the FSGA award for Best News and Analysis Site regularly. I cut my teeth in the reporting world at ProBasketballTalk.com on the Kings relocation story, developing sources in Sacramento and throughout the NBA. I’ve won two FSWA Basketball Writer of the Year awards and been nominated four times. I started SportsEthos to help this industry evolve so content producers can have some long-term security and customers can get a better product.

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