Last Updated on January 1, 2025 1:50 pm by Mike Passador | Published: January 1, 2025

Injuries are mounting in the NBA and waiver wires should be hopping, especially with Luka Doncic down and out in Dallas and with Spencer Dinwiddie looking like the playmaker for the next month for the Mavericks. Here are my top pickups right now.

Guys like Goga Bitadze, Bilal Coulibaly, Peyton Pritchard, Russell Westbrook, Naz Reid, Deni Avdija, Collin Sexton and Malik Monk are rostered in a lot of leagues but it’s worth checking your waiver wire to make sure they’re not available in yours. They should all be rostered everywhere.

Top Pick Up

Spencer Dinwiddie, Dallas PG/SG 24% rostered in Yahoo! Leagues

It may be too late for you to get Dinwiddie after he put up 30 points and six assists on Monday night but he should be in line for plenty of run with Luka Doncic on the shelf for a month with a calf injury. Kyrie Irving was out on Monday but should be back soon and will have the ball in his hands a lot, but there should be enough room for Dinwiddie to co-exist with him. We weren’t sure if Dinwiddie or Quentin Grimes was the better pickup in Luka’s absence, but it appears that the answer is Dinwiddie. And Dallas goes four times in three of the next four weeks.

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