Last Updated on February 2, 2026 6:19 pm by Aaron Bruski | Published: February 2, 2026

We are at the 60% 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 (24 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

Must Roster Graduates from Past Columns: Collin Gillespie, Derrick Queen, Jaylen Tyson, Grayson Allen, Russell Westbrook

*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.

Ty Jerome

PG, Memphis Grizzlies

(1) Jerome got back onto the floor and put up a classic Ty Jerome line with 20 points and six assists over the weekend. The simplest way to put this is that Coach Tuomas Iisalo truly believes in his role as an offensive engine, or at least that’s what he’s been saying.

When we look at the overall situation, there’s a potential top 50 player in here that we’ve never truly seen cut loose. All of his value in Cleveland came in 22-25 minute spurts for the most part, and Memphis brought him in to be something more.

There is injury risk, and there’s a chance that Memphis doesn’t push him up into the high 20s for minutes. But there’s also a potential he gets in there and has some sort of dominance of the role. While I wouldn’t bet on 29-31 mpg, we don’t know what we don’t know with him in his new location just quite yet, at least until the team comes out and says something.

Sandro Mamukelashvili

PF, Toronto Raptors

(3) Mamukelashvili had another killer week and even if Toronto lands a big man that cuts into his minutes, Mamu has had such a great season that Toronto probably isn’t working all that hard to replace his minutes.

Of course, they are trying to move Jakob Poeltl and the other rumor is that they might look at a low-end big man to step into those minutes. However those tea leaves may boil, he has basically been a late-round guy in 25 MPG for two months and if you simply set it and forget it this season he has been a top 80-95 play by totals.

Over the last two weeks he has been a top 40-50 play. A lot of people like to shortchange what he has been doing but if you are down in the trenches doing the work on the numbers the case he has made has been clear for a while.

Moussa Cisse

C, Dallas Mavericks

(4) Because we haven’t seen much from Cisse (questionable for Monday, two-way deal) since his massive line and all of the hype from yours truly, I’m going to leave you with my analysis from last week here in a bit.

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

Since this all started, we’ve gotten more stories about Anthony Davis possibly wanting to or ending up staying in Dallas (and more rumors teams want in). Daniel Gafford has gotten back on the floor (and is also in trade rumors). Davis also did a little work out for the cameras in which he was more spry than any time I have watched him this season. For his part, Cisse has been missing games due to illness and then had a game postponed, followed by some low-minute promising games.

I’ll put it to you guys this way – there’s risk inherent within a pickup like this. The weeks before the trade deadline were always going to be squirrely and Dwight Powell has always seemed like a logical bridge to Cisse. This add is about being there for a pivot point and I spent the last two weeks adding Cisse. Let’s see what happens next.

From two weeks ago:

I spent a nice little chunk of Sunday afternoon for my high-stakes FAAB runs deep diving on the value of Cisse. Basically, it looks like this – he is a blocks monster in the waiting, and sported a block rate in college that got as high as 11% and was 9.8% in his final season at Memphis. He’s not bad with the steals either and of course the field goal percentage is there for the big man.

Where we run into the biggest issue is with the foul shooting as he could easily get up into the 3-4 attempt range, and it’s not clear whether he can clear the 50% mark. I’ll cut to the chase and say that if you cut loose for 25 minutes or more per game he has top 50-125 probable production and at swing comes back to how many foul shots he truly takes and also whether or not you care about foul shooting.

Basically, he might be this season’s Adem Bona.

The next big issue is that he has run through 36 of his 50 games on his two-way deal, and currently Dallas doesn’t have a roster spot for him. That said, his teammates Anthony Davis and maybe even Daniel Gafford are available for a trade. While Dallas has a long history with Dwight Powell, they could also decide to cut him and move on.

The bottom line with this is that Dallas can both develop a player who is showing incredible promise in a league that covets bigs who can move both laterally and vertically on defense – and also lose games because he’s extremely raw on offense. His teammates that might steal his minutes, including Powell and possibly even 10-day signee Jeremiah Robinson Earl, are more shooter and connector than defensive presence so he has his own distinct lane. Gafford might have a chronic ankle issue that could theoretically end his career at this point since we are well beyond reasonable return schedules.

Dallas will need to make a move to get rid of Anthony Davis and/or add a roster slot to make this work but after that everything lines up for a breakout.

Dylan Cardwell

C, Sacramento Kings

(12) I saw Cardwell in the preseason and first few weeks and had the same reaction that I’ve had to other elite athletes.

It’s a sort of pop in the eyes when you see the size/speed combination and for Cardwell it’s his ability to get that massive frame up in the air so explosively. I can guarantee you nobody on the floor wants to fight that guy and that’s probably why he gets away with shoving people on the ground.

That, and because he’s smiling while he’s doing it in a good-natured way that you might see a football player down at your local 24 hour fitness hooping and everybody knows that this player has zero control over what they’re doing. This is the NBA version of that and to be 100% clear he’s pretty savvy defensively and on the glass as this is his calling card in the NBA.

And he’s also doing the WWE thing where he riles the crowd up on virtually every play so of course Doug Christie loves him. Domantas Sabonis is back to crowd the rotation and Keegan Murray will be back shortly but there is an increasing sense around Sacramento that Cardwell will get his 20 minutes per-game just to keep his intangibles, rebounding and defense in the collective bloodstream. And in that many minutes the season he is producing top 165-180 value (9/8 cat).

Over the last three weeks we’ve seen an uptick to 22.3 MPG with top 70-100 value as he has averaged five points, eight rebounds, 1.4 assists, 0.7 steals, two blocks and 74.3% shooting from the field.

What happens if they let him roam around out there for 25 or 26 MPG while the team tanks down the stretch? They signed him to a rest of season deal and practically advertised it is the centerpiece of the Keon Ellis/De’Andre Hunter trade. In last night’s game he had like five blocks but was credited for just three and had two of them on the same play in truly highlight fashion.

This isn’t without risk but this has silly season fun written all over it.

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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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