Get to the Points: Trade Deadline Fire Sale
Yahoo Fantasy analyst Dan Titus and contributor Justin Henry discuss a few players fantasy managers should consider dealing.
Video Transcript
DAN TITUS: On the flip side, who are you dropping or who are you trying to trade away as a result of the trade deadline?
JUSTIN HENRY: I think the trade deadline, it's you want to look forward, right. So if I'm a playoff team and I'm trying to get in, you might be willing to trade away some bigger names to secure your spot in the playoffs. If you are a team that's looking at a buy, now you're kind of looking ahead at playoff schedules, who has the most games, who are some players that have a light slate that you can trade away. And so you also want to look at players who aren't performing.
So every league is going to have their own caveat based on your playoffs, if it's weekly, daily, . Leave that to your determination. But a player that I'm looking at that absolutely needs to be traded away, in my opinion, Dereck Lively. Just since this trade, Daniel Gafford has come over to the Dallas Mavericks. We have not seen the same level of minutes for Dereck Lively and the same level of production. He's creeped outside the top 150 on a per-game basis. And although he's had a really good rookie campaign, this is also a time when rookies who have been starting tend to hit the quote, unquote rookie wall. So mix that in with limited minutes, with another veteran who's come in there and played well, Daniel Gafford, Dereck Lively is a trade candidate for me.
DAN TITUS: I'd be looking to get rid of the players on the Magic. I'm not really feeling Paolo Banchero down the stretch here. He does a lot for your assists. But if you look in totality over the course of the season, he hasn't been a particularly good fantasy player. And people might be drawn to the, oh, he gets 20 points a game and some assists. But I don't know, man, I feel like this is type of a inefficiency that you don't want to have on your team as you're going through that stretch run. The Magic also don't play a lot of games. I talked about it last week.
The Charlotte Hornets are a team that I'm concerned about. If you have Brandon Miller, if you have Tre Mann, I think that those are perfect sell opportunities for people that are playing pretty well that you might be able to lock up and get a couple of rounds of value getting them off your roster, because they don't play a lot of games over the course of week 20 to week 24, when your playoffs should end.