Maximizing production requires adapting your fantasy basketball strategy mid-season. Impactful NBA injuries to stars dominate the NBA injury report, creating value shifts across NBA depth charts. We analyze these changes and recent NBA player stats to highlight key NBA sleepers—like Collin Gillespie and Vince Williams Jr.—who are trending up in NBA fantasy rankings. Use our Start/Sit guide and NBA player projections to navigate four-game slates and bench low-volume players.
Week 6 provides us with a six-day schedule as a result of the Thanksgiving holiday, with 10 teams suiting up four times and 18 teams taking the court three times, leaving the Magic and the Wizards as the only two teams with two games.
Four Games: DET, IND, MEM, MIL, MIN, NOP, NYK, PHO, SAC, TOR
Three Games: ATL, BKN, BOS, CHA, CHI, CLE, DAL, DEN, GSW, HOU, LAC, LAL, MIA, OKC, PHI, POR, SAS, UTA
Two Games: ORL, WAS
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Fantasy Basketball Start/Sit (Week 6)
Guards
Consider starting: Collin Gillespie, PHO 
Opponents: HOU, @SAC, @OKC, DEN
We need only think back 12 months to what Ty Jerome was doing for the Cavaliers to get a glimpse of what Gillespie has done thus far. He has been a top-100 player in standard nine-category leagues despite coming off the bench, serving as the backup point guard. Ongoing hamstring concerns for Jalen Green have provided Gillespie with additional playing
Maximizing production requires adapting your fantasy basketball strategy mid-season. Impactful NBA injuries to stars dominate the NBA injury report, creating value shifts across NBA depth charts. We analyze these changes and recent NBA player stats to highlight key NBA sleepers—like Collin Gillespie and Vince Williams Jr.—who are trending up in NBA fantasy rankings. Use our Start/Sit guide and NBA player projections to navigate four-game slates and bench low-volume players.
Week 6 provides us with a six-day schedule as a result of the Thanksgiving holiday, with 10 teams suiting up four times and 18 teams taking the court three times, leaving the Magic and the Wizards as the only two teams with two games.
Four Games: DET, IND, MEM, MIL, MIN, NOP, NYK, PHO, SAC, TOR
Three Games: ATL, BKN, BOS, CHA, CHI, CLE, DAL, DEN, GSW, HOU, LAC, LAL, MIA, OKC, PHI, POR, SAS, UTA
Two Games: ORL, WAS
For up-to-the-minute updates on injuries, lineups, roster changes and more, head to RotoWire's NBA News or follow @RotoWireNBA on X.
Fantasy Basketball Start/Sit (Week 6)
Guards
Consider starting: Collin Gillespie, PHO
Opponents: HOU, @SAC, @OKC, DEN
We need only think back 12 months to what Ty Jerome was doing for the Cavaliers to get a glimpse of what Gillespie has done thus far. He has been a top-100 player in standard nine-category leagues despite coming off the bench, serving as the backup point guard. Ongoing hamstring concerns for Jalen Green have provided Gillespie with additional playing time, of which he has taken full advantage. In his last four appearances, Gillespie has averaged 16.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 1.3 steals and 2.8 three-pointers, logging at least 28 minutes in three of those four games. Green is not due back anytime soon, meaning Gillespie's opportunities should continue. With four games tabled for this week, his recent play warrants a starting spot in most leagues.
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Consider starting: Vince Williams Jr., MEM 
Opponents: DEN, @NOP, @LAC, @SAC
With Ja Morant sidelined once again, Williams finds himself in a favorable situation. By default, he is basically the only true point guard remaining on the roster, outside of maybe Cam Spencer. Having started three straight games, Williams has averaged 9.3 points, 8.0 rebounds, 10.0 assists and 1.3 steals, good enough for top-100 value. His scoring typically comes and goes, although his peripheral numbers are relatively consistent. The Grizzlies have four games coming up this week, likely resulting in another four starts for Williams. Assuming you can absorb the hit in points, he makes for a solid starting candidate.
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Consider sitting: Bilal Coulibaly, WAS 
Opponents: ATL, @IND
Viewed as more of a defensive specialist, Coulibaly has been serviceable at best since returning from injury. In those four games, he has averaged 8.7 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.0 steals and 1.0 blocks, despite starting all four games. While his role does appear relatively secure, he simply isn't doing enough to warrant a roster spot in standard leagues, outside of specific punt builds. If you are holding him, shifting him to the bench with only two games coming up makes sense.
Forwards
Consider starting: Kyle Kuzma, MIL 
Opponents: POR, @MIA, @NYK, BKN
Another player who has taken advantage of a situation where key players are out due to injury, Kuzma has been relatively productive over the past two weeks. In seven games during that span, he has averaged 14.9 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.3 steals. Giannis Antetokounmpo is likely to be out at least another week with a groin injury, while Bobby Portis has been underwhelming for the most part. Kuzma certainly has his flaws when it comes to analyzing his overall fantasy game, but in a case of quantity over quality, consider shifting him into your starting lineup this week.
Consider sitting: Zaccharie Risacher, ATL 
Opponents: @WAS, CLE, @PHI
Even as a permanent starter, Risacher has been barely a top-200 player this season, averaging 11.8 points, 1.0 steals and 1.4 three-pointers per game. Despite starting in every game he has played, he is only seeing 24.3 minutes per contest, far below what we might expect from a typical starting small forward. He offers very little outside of low-volume scoring, with serviceable steal numbers. He remains rostered in too many leagues, but if you are one of those who believe in him, at least have him on your bench this week, with only three games coming up.
Consider sitting: Tristan da Silva, ORL 
Opponents: @PHI, @DET
Much like Kuzma, da Silva has been able to put himself on the standard league radar following an injury to a key piece, that being Paolo Banchero. Da Silva has now started in five straight games, averaging 14.2 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.6 three-pointers. He has played at least 28 minutes in all five appearances, providing the team with an alternative scoring option behind Desmond Bane and Franz Wagner. However, his overall upside remains limited, and with only two games tabled for the next seven days, there simply might not be enough meat on the bone when it comes to starting him.
Centers
Consider starting: Isaiah Stewart, DET 
Opponents: @IND, @BOS, ORL, @MIA
Although his stock could be trending in the wrong direction, it appears as though Stewart should be able to continue playing a meaningful role for the Pistons moving forward. With the team now fully healthy, it's hard to see him playing more than about 22 minutes on most nights. However, through 13 games, he has averaged 10.8 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.1 blocks and 1.2 three-pointers in just 23.0 minutes per contest. His value is heavily reliant on blocks, an aspect of his game that he has clearly worked on over the past 12 months. As a specialist in a low-volume category, four games might be just enough to have him in your starting lineup this week.
Consider sitting: Wendell Carter Jr., ORL
Opponents: @PHI, @DET
Carter has been very consistent to begin the season, averaging 12.3 points, 7.4 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.3 three-pointers and 1.5 combined steals and blocks through the first 17 games. However, he missed Sunday's game against the Celtics due to an ankle sprain, the first game he has missed all season. Orlando only plays twice this week, and given there is a chance he misses one of those games, there is almost no way you can risk having him in your starting lineup.
