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December 22, 2025, 3:27 amLast Updated on December 22, 2025 3:35 am by Aaron Bruski | Published: December 22, 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 (33 TOTAL PICKUPS)
This week I’m giving you guys the top 2-6 plays and saving the No. 1 overall pickup for the subs!
*Waiver Wire Rank in Parenthesis
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Bobby PortisPF, Milwaukee BucksSeason Team GP GS MPG FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PTM 3PTA 3PT% PTS REB AST STL BLK TO 25-26 MIL 29 3 22.9 5.0 10.2 48.8 0.6 0.9 65.4 1.9 4.0 47.0 12.4 6.1 1.3 0.6 0.1 1.1 24-25 MIL 49 7 25.4 5.7 12.1 46.6 1.2 1.5 83.6 1.3 3.6 36.5 13.9 8.4 2.1 0.7 0.5 1.2 23-24 MIL 82 5 24.5 5.7 11.2 50.8 1.2 1.5 79.0 1.2 3.0 40.7 13.8 7.4 1.3 0.8 0.4 1.1 (2) Portis has a solid month of late round value under his belt and he showing signs that he can be more as he profiles as a player Milwaukee can throw out on the court much to the fans’ delight.
Beyond that, they need offensive engines in the worst way with Myles Turner in capable of generating anything on his own and low-grade options like Kyle Kuzma getting called into bigger roles.
That means Portis is going to get ample shots the rest of the way and even if Giannis returns for some amount of time the odds are great that he can hang onto enough gravity in fantasy leagues to weather that storm.
Maxime RaynaudC, Sacramento KingsSeason Team GP GS MPG FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PTM 3PTA 3PT% PTS REB AST STL BLK TO 25-26 SAC 21 7 20.8 4.0 7.8 52.1 1.7 2.2 76.1 0.3 0.9 33.3 10.0 5.8 1.0 0.5 0.5 1.1 (3) We can pick apart Raynaud’s game or talk about when Domantas Sabonis returns but that situation has all sorts of red flags on it and the rookie is very likely a 30 MPG center for a month, probably to and possibly the rest of the way. Even with low cash counting stats of threes, steals and blocks he is easily a late round value and might see increased usage with each passing month.
Ajay MitchellPG, Oklahoma City ThunderSeason Team GP GS MPG FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PTM 3PTA 3PT% PTS REB AST STL BLK TO 25-26 OKC 28 7 26.2 5.0 10.8 46.8 2.9 3.3 89.1 1.1 3.1 34.5 14.1 3.4 3.6 1.4 0.3 1.5 24-25 OKC 36 1 16.6 2.5 5.1 49.5 0.8 1.0 82.9 0.6 1.7 38.3 6.5 1.9 1.8 0.7 0.1 0.8 (4) Whereas Cason Wallace is a specialist with higher overall upside, Mitchell brings more versatile production and that makes him a safer asset. He refuses to go away with top 90-100 per-game value on the season and over the last two weeks and four games when he was supposed to disappear he still dropped a top 70-90 set of four games averaging 12-4-4 with 2.6 combined cash counting stats and great efficiency, definitely slanted more toward Roto production. His ability to compile this kind of value for the foreseeable future if this is just simply who he is gives him a bit more appeal than some of the other names on this list.
Kyle FilipowskiC, Utah JazzSeason Team GP GS MPG FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PTM 3PTA 3PT% PTS REB AST STL BLK TO 25-26 UTA 26 10 23.2 3.5 7.4 47.2 1.8 2.5 71.9 0.9 2.8 31.9 9.7 6.5 2.2 0.5 0.5 1.2 24-25 UTA 72 28 21.1 3.6 7.2 50.2 1.3 2.0 65.0 1.1 3.1 35.0 9.6 6.1 1.9 0.7 0.3 1.4 (5) 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 is starting to miss 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.
NOW, THE REMAINING FIVE FROM THE TOP TEN AND THE REST OF OUR PICKUPS (Waiver Wire Rank in Parenthesis)
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