Last Updated on November 10, 2025 2:37 pm by Aaron Bruski | Published: November 10, 2025

Hi everybody! I’m going to try to keep this short and sweet AGAIN this week as we have about 1 million things going on around here but because the team over here at SportsEthos has been so amazing, I’ve been able to put together a 24-month stretch of health for the ages. After having a rib surgically removed to address compressed nerves underneath my collarbone, which brought me to a place where I couldn’t sit, stand or type, in coordination with a crazy rehab and PT program, I’ve been able to heal my body enough to write and produce more premium content for our FantasyPass.

So, I’m going to be providing weekly waiver wire analysis on Mondays and also opening up my twitter feed for questions on a limited basis (on Mondays as well) and then opening it up for premium members after that in our discord server.

Anyway, without further ado let’s start digging out some diamonds

Outside of the paywall, here are FIVE PLAYERS from my TOP TEN WAIVER WIRE pickups from 200 player high stakes leagues (8-cat Roto), and then NBA FantasyPass subscribers get the rest (25 TOTAL PLAYS)

*Waiver Wire Rank in Parenthesis

Collin Gillespie

PG, Phoenix Suns

(1) Last week’s top waiver wire pickup hit again this week but not with spectacular stats, as the lull we predicted with Jalen Green returning hit. The headline isn’t that Green got injured and boosted Gillespie‘s value, but rather that both Gillespie and the team have been staunchly committed to playing him and at the same time he has outright delivered. Even if Green hadn’t been hurt this train was rolling anyway to the tune of top 90-100 value in 24.9 MPG on the measurements that’s low because of said lull. He defends well and is an offensive engine so the arrow is pointing up from this already lofty territory.

Royce O'Neale

PF, Phoenix Suns

(2) O’Neale just keeps flying underneath the radar despite a top 65 season in which everybody is falling apart around him and he’s the consistency guy. He should probably be ranked above Gillespie but the upside potential for Gillespie and stat set are a little harder to come across on the waiver wire and it’s certainly possible that we are at the high water mark for O’Neale on the season.

Jake LaRavia

PF, Los Angeles Lakers

(4) LaRavia is sitting on a top 65-75 week basketball with 14 points, one triple, six rebounds, three assist, 2.3 steals, 0.3 blocks on 56.4% from the field and 69.2% from the foul line on 3.3 foul shots per game and all of this in 33 minutes per contest over the last four games. Yes, there is a big test when Lebron returns and especially if the team plays at full strength, but the stories coming out of Los Angeles about JJ Redick recruiting him speak to how real basketball folks completely understand how good LaRavia is – perhaps the free-agent pickup of the summer given the low cost.

Jusuf Nurkić

C, Utah Jazz

(5) A lot of folks went huge with FAAB bids (up to $400 out of $1,000) and yes Nurkic has a starting center job nailed down but underneath the hood there are problems. Namely, he’s hanging around the bottom of the top 150 on the season on 21.3 MPG and doesn’t exactly project well for more minutes over the course of a long season. Of course an add should be made here for anybody needing a center, but the expectation should be top-100 play with an expiration date pretty much any time when he falls apart.

Moses Moody

SG, Golden State Warriors

(10) Moody is just outside the top 100 in 23 MPG with 4.7 cash counters to go with reasonable (but a little bit high) percentages, 12 points and 2.7 triples. The defensive numbers are 60 to 70% up over prior years. Steph Curry returns soon so the target goal here should be late round value but we might be seeing a player earn a consistent role that heads towards top 100 production the rest of the way.

NOW, THE REMAINING FIVE FROM THE TOP TEN AND THE REST OF OUR PICKUPS (Waiver Wire Rank in Parenthesis) 

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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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