Week 18 is significant in Yahoo! public leagues, as Thursday, March 6, is trade deadline day. On the most recent episode of the Rotoworld Basketball Show, we discussed some trade values for some players as managers look to position themselves to make a run in their fantasy league playoffs. As for the Week 18 game schedule, it’s a good one. Eighteen teams will play four games; Thursday (six games) is the “light” day, and Tuesday (nine games) is the busiest on the calendar.
Week 18 Games Played
4 Games: ATL, CHA, CLE, DAL, DET, GSW, HOU, LAC, MEM, MIA, MIL, MIN, NOR, OKC, PHI, POR, SAC, UTA
3 Games: BKN, BOS, CHI, DEN, IND, LAL, NYK, ORL, PHO, SAS, TOR, WAS
Week 18 Storylines
– Only one team won’t be active on the final two days of Week 18
Twenty-nine teams will play at least one game on Saturday or Sunday of Week 18, except for the Knicks. Tom Thibodeau’s team plays three games during Week 18, concluding with a Thursday/Friday road back-to-back against the Lakers and Clippers. Mitchell Robinson (15 percent) made his season debut on Friday, playing 12 minutes in a win over the Grizzlies. His minutes will likely remain low for the foreseeable future, and the back-to-back likely means he’ll only play two games during Week 18.
On the opposite end of the weekend “spectrum” are the Pistons, Bucks and Pelicans, who play on Saturday and Sunday. New Orleans (CJ McCollum and Zion Williamson) have players at risk of sitting out a game for scheduling reasons, and that may also be the case for Damian Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo in Milwaukee. The Bucks have what could be a lousy fantasy schedule, as their four-game Week 18 consists of two back-to-backs.
– How many games will fantasy managers get out of Chet Holmgren?
Beginning with the final day of Week 17, the Thunder will have two back-to-backs to navigate through the end of Week 18. Under normal circumstances, fantasy managers would likely assume that Holmgren, who has not played both ends of a B2B since returning from his fractured hip, would have a decent chance of playing in three of those six games (the second B2B spans the final day of Week 18 and the first day of Week…
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