Last Updated on December 1, 2025 1:08 pm by Aaron Bruski | Published: December 1, 2025

We are 25% of the way through the season and as usual here are my Bruski 150 Waiver Wire plays for Week 6. I grab these plays from a variety of sources including my high stakes leagues.

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 (36 TOTAL PLAYS)

*Waiver Wire Rank in Parenthesis

Derik Queen

C, New Orleans Pelicans

(1) Queen lost a lot of momentum but he showed decent staying power bouncing back from a 16 minute outing against Golden State on Saturday with two points, three rebounds and that’s it, posting 15 points with seven rebounds, three assists, one steel and seven of eight hits from the foul line in 28 minutes on Sunday against the Lakers.

Taking his last four really bad games he averaged 21 minutes, nine points, four rebounds, four assists, 1.3 combined defensive stats and somehow managed to keep it inside the top 185. His past three weeks got knocked down to top 90-120 value 8/9 in a 27 minute sample with 14 points, 6.7 rebounds, 4.4 assist, 1.8 combined defensive stats and I think that’s probably his floor going forward even if there is some downside to possibly fall off the map here and there.

Just last week top 50 was in play for evaluation and I think he has that kind of gear if he can get his conditioning to handle 30 minutes per night – and take some kind of a step forward defensively a lot sooner than New Orleans just blindly handing him the keys and hoping for the best in March and April.

From best case to worst case I think we are looking at top 50 to top 100 the rest of the season and players like that don’t have the waiver wire very often. Just be ready for speed bumps along the way and hope he stays away from Zion when it comes to meal planning.

Malik Monk

SG, Sacramento Kings

(2) Monk got loose for 21 points, six rebounds, six assists, two steals, two blocks and one triple in 34 minutes on Sunday as it continues to be clear that the Kings are better with him on the court. Maybe the organization doesn’t like him (nobody likes them) and yes he is outside of the top 150 in 24 MPG on the season but flip a few switches and this guy has proven capable of being a top 50 player at times. To be clear, some players need to leave and/or miss time for this to hit but that’s going to be on a distinct possibility from now until the rest of the season.

Ajay Mitchell

PG, Oklahoma City Thunder

(4) Mitchell could’ve easily hit your waiver wire after playing just five minutes with a knee contusion on Friday but he returned on Sunday to score 17 points with five rebounds, five assists and a steal over 29 minutes with Williams in the lineup

There are minutes to be had with Isaiah Hartenstein out and it’s worth noting that Aaron Wiggins and Isaiah Joe combined for 34 minutes and that Lu Dort also got 28 minutes in this game. Cason Wallace has seen a minute dip lately and he played just 21 minutes in this contest.

We can slice and dice this minute distortion a few different ways but the easiest thing to say is that Ajay Mitchell just isn’t going away right now and he might not go away all season.

Even taking on a five minute average crusher on Friday he has been a top 90 value on the season. This is a zig when everybody else is zagging move.

Jay Huff

C, Indiana Pacers

(6) Huff is one of the top adds this week as he has rehabbed his overall season value to the top 165-180 range in 17.4 MPG and is coming off 14 points, eight rebounds, four blocks and four threes in his last game. He is sitting on a month of top 100-125 value over 10 games, averaging 19.6 MPG to go with nine points, just under two triples, four rebounds, 2.6 blocks and just 0.9 turnovers per game. It’s a top 50-60 sample in the last seven games in 22 MPG with 11 points, 2.1 triples, just under five boards and three blocks per game on just 49% shooting from the field. The upside has always been there and now we just need to see if his knee and the Indiana Pacers point guards can create an efficient offense involving him.

Ace Bailey

SF, Utah Jazz

(10) Bailey has held onto value as a late round play and I think that means he should be roster by somebody in your 12 team, 156 player league. In terms of waiver wire rank, my concerns are some holes in the stat set and some general inconsistency. It’s also going to be hard to gauge how he gets his touches as I don’t think they’re just going to give him the ball and get out of the way. The hope will be that by the end of the year the dips are in the top 125 range and top 75 upside is on the horizon.

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

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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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