Last Updated on December 29, 2025 12:56 pm by Aaron Bruski | Published: December 29, 2025

We are 40% of the way through the fantasy basketball season and the Bruski 150 Waiver Wire plays for Week 10 are here!

Outside of the paywall, I give you FIVE PLAYERS from my TOP TEN WAIVER WIRE pickups and then NBA FantasyPass subscribers get the rest (32 TOTAL PICKUPS)

This week I’m giving you guys five of the top-10 plays for FREE and the rest of the 32 pickups, stashes, streamers and avoids – including the top three waiver wire pickups of the week – those go to subscribers!

*Waiver Wire Rank in Parenthesis

Maxime Raynaud

C, Sacramento Kings

(4) For all of the initial intrigue about what he could be, Maxime Raynaud has become a rather predictable fantasy asset producing just outside of the top 100 virtually every night with averages of 15 points, nine rebounds, 1.6 combined defensive stats. His cash counting stats aren’t great but he has a clear path to minutes the rest of the season and theoretically he might have another gear. Low and slow gets the job done in this case and he could easily play every night the rest of the way, providing a little bit of extra upside with top-75 rest of season potential .

Bobby Portis

PF, Milwaukee Bucks

(5) The only downer here is that Giannis Antetokounmpo is back and Bobby Portis might start producing closer to the 125 range for a little bit. Otherwise, he is producing inside of the top 100 as is customary when he is a significant piece of the Milwaukee Bucks attack. It’s a great equation for rest of season value.

Justin Champagnie

SG, Washington Wizards

(8) Longtime followers know my affinity for Champagnie as his stat set and ability to fly up the ranks just are what they are. Of course, we were there to advise an add the minute we saw two games in the 20-24 minute range to start December (go check is preseason B150 rank for fun/LOLs).

After that came a five-game seesaw of every other game ranging from 16 to 33 minutes and back to 18 in the last one. After that, a cool simmer of five games in the 19-25 range and the last three bringing back top 75-100 value with averages of nine points, nine rebounds, 2.7 combined cash counting stats and solid efficiencies in just 22 MPG.

Sure, maybe you can wait and see how this plays out but in competitive situations where it’s not just enough to wait and see and then advise folks after it is plain as day, you can get a sense for why I’m pushing y’all to stay ahead of the casuals. The sharks are already circling.

Kyle Filipowski

C, Utah Jazz

(9) Filipowski has truly been all over the board this season and the value proposition is actually easy to figure out. If Jusuf Nurkic or Kevin Love are getting significant minutes they take his role as a perimeter dribble handoff guy and it takes away just enough avenues for production to create downside risk on any given night. Lauri Markkanen gave us glimpses of missing time and betting against Nurkic and Love just seems like good business.

Peak Filipowski can easily be assigned a top-75 projection and that’s kind of hard to find, and is especially enticing on a team that should theoretically want to develop him.

Brook Lopez

C, Los Angeles Clippers

(10) There has been a small but not insubstantial amount of media criticism surrounding the Los Angeles Clippers signing Brook Lopez to a two-year, $18 million contract and not playing him. Enter Ivica Zubac getting hurt for a few weeks. Enter a four-game sample with Brook Lopez playing 30 minutes per-game with top 35-40 value over the last four games and averages of 14 points, 3.5 triples, six rebounds, two assists and 2.3 combined defensive stats.

Of course, the eventual return of Zubac is going to dent this value but there is also a lot of ‘the money plays’ going on in this situation and I’m not sure Zubac is a better player than Lopez.

If Brook Lopez can get 24 MPG going forward somehow because he spearheads a return to competitiveness for the Los Angeles Clippers, who have won their last four games, perhaps he can become a low hi player in which the 24 MPG has enough value to sustain late round value and upside beyond that. In the meantime, enjoy a week or two of mid to early round value.

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Aaron Bruski

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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