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Locked On Fantasy Basketball – Daily NBA Fantasy Basketball Podcast

Moving On Sam Hauser? 40 Names TO Watch On The Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire

Locked On Fantasy Basketball – Daily NBA Fantasy Basketball Podcast

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🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Fantasy basketball managers rush to add surging names like Precious Achiuwa, Brice Sensabaugh, and Jamal Shead, but should you trust these waiver wire breakouts for long-term success? Josh Lloyd breaks down the hottest pickups across Yahoo and Basketball Monster, assessing whether these trending NBA players—such as Tim Hardaway Jr., Jalen Smith, and Grady Dick—can sustain their current value or are destined to disappoint as stars return from injury and coaching rotations tighten.

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0:00.0

Let's take a gander at the fantasy basketball waiver wire

0:05.1

that adds, the drops, the moves, the Michael Bolton's.

0:08.4

Thanks, Josh. It's Michael Bolton here,

0:10.9

and it's time for another episode of the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast.

0:16.3

Let's get to it.

0:17.5

Let's get to it, indeed.

0:20.3

You are Locked-on Fantasy, your daily NBA fantasy podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:31.1

Hello and welcome to the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster.

0:36.0

My name is Josh Lloyd, and I will repeat the part of the stuff where I said all about the things. I'm also the lead fantasy analyst at Basketballmonster.com, and today's episode is brought to you by Fanjel. Before, tip off. Check the Fangrel up and see what's dropping during NBA Happy Hour every Friday from 6 to 7.30 p.m. Eastern. Thank you also for making Locked on Fantasy Basketball your first listen every day. We're free.

0:57.4

We're available on all platforms.

0:54.7

We are part of the number one

0:58.6

sports podcast network, the Locked-on Podcast Network. Thank you again. For making us all the way

1:04.2

up to number one. Wavewire. Let's take a look about what's going on on the old fantasy basketball waiver wire.

1:11.7

We do a Waverwire based show basically every day with the Daily Look Ahead streaming show.

1:16.5

This show is more about longer term ideas versus single day streaming. It's more about,

1:22.6

look, what moves are being made that makes sense for the short term, intermediate term, longer term.

1:27.8

What drops can you make that might hurt a little bit in the short term? But overall, I think, will be the correct decision. And just the way that people are viewing things. So there are slight differences with this sort of stuff because we can talk about, yeah, ads and why didn't you talk about adding this guy for this one day? Because it didn't make sense to do it long term. It's about, that's where we have

1:44.3

to have multiple, I guess, areas of our brain working in fantasy basketball is you're looking at what's happening now, what are we doing for today, what are we doing for the chunk, what are we doing for the back to back, what are we doing for the next week, what are we doing for the next three weeks? How do we see this playing out? Is it worth burning a move to get somebody who might give us value for one game? Is it worth doing it when it might be a little bit iffy now,

2:03.6

and then we look at it for four

2:04.6

weeks? And I know that sounds a little like non-descriptive or vague, but we have to have that

2:12.5

you can't just be always, every move is about tomorrow. Some of it should be and some of it should be more about

2:18.5

longer term thinking and all that gets influenced by what's the time of the year and how good your

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