Last Updated on December 8, 2025 3:29 am by Aaron Bruski | Published: December 8, 2025

We are 30% of the way through the fantasy basketball season and the Bruski 150 Waiver Wire plays for Week 7 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 (44 TOTAL PICKUPS)

*Waiver Wire Rank in Parenthesis

Derik Queen

C, New Orleans Pelicans

(1) A lot of the analysis from last week holds up for Queen so I’m just going to include it below. This past week he was very quiet but still managed to produce top 105-120 value (8/9) on the basis of 13 points, seven rebounds, five assists with 1.3 combined defensive stats. If somebody in your league thought it wasn’t good enough, be right there to help them out! If he shows out this week I’m graduating him into the must roster/no longer needing to be mentioned group above.

From Last Week’s Article:

Derik 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.

Jay Huff

C, Indiana Pacers

(2) Huff is one of the top adds this week as he has rehabbed his overall season value to the top 130-165 range (9/8) in 18.3 MPG and is flying up the charts with each additional MPG he gets. He is sitting on a month of top 75-100 value (9/8) over 15 games, averaging 20.3 MPG to go with nine points, just under two triples, four rebounds, 2.9 blocks and just 0.8 turnovers per game. It’s a top 40-50 sample in the last 10 games in 22.6 MPG with 11 points, 2.0 triples, four boards and 3.1 blocks per game on just 50% shooting from the field.

The upside has always been there and we’re just scratching the surface. Now we just need to see if his knee and the Indiana Pacers point guards can continue with an efficient offense involving him.

Maxime Raynaud

C, Sacramento Kings

(4) When the Sacramento Kings want you to know something they really want you to know something. Raynaud has been elevated to a starting position and the team is going all in with the marketing effort, and with just Drew Eubanks in his way and the season effectively over there is a very high likelihood they give him 25 minutes per-game or more the rest of the way.

Raynaud is a top 110-135 player 9/8 over his last five games in 22 MPG with 13 points, 0.6 triples, 5.6 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 0.4 steals, 1.0 blocks on 56.5% shooting and nine attempts per game as well as 83% foul shooting on 2.4 attempts per game with 0.6 turnovers

For comparison sake, in his last 15 games he has averaged 16.4 MPG with eight points, 0.3 triples, four rebounds, 0.9 assists, 0.3 steals, 0.5 blocks, 51.6% from the field on six attempts per game and 82.6% from the foul line on 1.5 attempts per game with 0.6 turnovers

The value gets better in the 70-90 range (9/8) over the last four games at 25.4 MPG with 16 points, 0.8 triples 6.5 boards, 1.8 assists, 0.3 steals, 1.3 blocks on 59% shooting on 11 attempts and 83% from the foul line on three attempts.

What does it all mean? He has a pretty good chance to stay in the top 100-125 range in 25 MPG when Domantas Sabonis returns, though the dips will be in the top 150-175 range

If they go all the way all-in he probably gets close to 30 MPG (25 MPG without Sabonis may also be equivalent) and has a pretty good chance to go into the top 70-90 range for those games

His future ranks probably come down to how many of those games fall into the two different buckets. It’s probably fair to assess 66% of the games when Sabonis is playing/25 MPG level and the other 33% at the higher level. 100-120 is probably the floor the rest of the way, and the sweet spot for evaluation is probably 85-105, 9/8.

Kyle Filipowski

C, Utah Jazz

(6) Filipowski finally had the classic Kyle Filipowski game folks were waiting for on Sunday against the Oklahoma City Thunder, no less. He scored 21 points with 10 rebounds, three steals, two assists and a triple in 36 minutes with Lauri Markkanen taking the night off and it punctuated a week in which he held onto the rope in fantasy circles.

We also saw Jusuf Nurkic starting to take time off though he played in Sunday’s game for 20 minutes and was typically unspectacular. Whenever Utah decides it’s Kyle Filipowski time at the expense of Nurkic and Kevin Love, he will start to bring top-100 consistency as a floor and every good development after that starts leading back to the top-50 territory where he was producing at the end of last season.

Bobby Portis

PF, Milwaukee Bucks

(10) With Giannis all but out the door and also injured, Portis started showing signs of life over the past two games with 14.5 points, 2.5 triples, 5.5 rebounds, two assists and 2.0 combined steals and blocks with bad efficiencies. It’s not likely to be good for him on the efficiency front. But the fact that he is showing up in the box score along with his leadership role and past success carving out top 75-100 value – it makes him my favorite non-obvious pick up as the pivot has hit in Milwaukee.

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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