Happy New Year, and welcome to the second half of the fantasy basketball season. The holiday didn't fall on the exact midway point, but moving forward everything just feels different.
The NFL and NCAA football are coming to an end, megastars like Kyrie Irving and Klay Thompson are leading a brigade of impact players likely to return from extended absences in the next month or so, and the decisions you make now will have clear and tangible impact on fantasy basketball championships ... which now don't seem all that far away.
We're still locked in a health and illness surge, the likes of which we've never seen for at least the length of the fantasy sports era, and that changes the NBA landscape on a daily basis.
In the short term, identifying players that can and are stepping up to produce impact stats is of peak importance. So, as we do every week, let's explore some players of interest that are rostered in less than 20% of ESPN leagues.
