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Brook Lopez: Fantasy Basketball Center Sleeper in 2012-13

Brook Lopez is a year removed from a 82 game season where he averaged 20.4 points, 6 rebounds and 1.5 blocks, while shooting 49% from the field. Yes, the six rebounds leaves a lot to be desired from the 7 footer, but so far this preseason, he has been impressive. In four preseason games with the Brooklyn Nets, Lopez has averaged 19 points and 9 rebounds.

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Fantasy Basketball: Jonas Valanciunas – Late Round Steal

Jonas should average 10 rebounds, along with 8 points and a block per game Why the high rebound forecast? Well, he is playing alongside possible the weakest rebounding big man in the league – Andrea Bargnani. Despite being 7 feet tall and averaging 33 minutes per game, Bargnani grabbed just 5.5 rebounds per game last season. That is even worse than Brook Lopez, who averaged 6 boards per game in the 2010-11 season (he was injured almost the entire 2011-12 season). Basically, Jonas Valanciunas will have little competition for rebounds this season.

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Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire Pickups: All-Star Weekend Edition

Kaman is hungry to either take back the starting center spot from DeAndre Jordan or audition for other teams before the trade deadline. Kaman is available in over one quarter of Yahoo fantasy leagues. Considering this is a player who last year, averaged 18.5 points, 9.3 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks per game while shooting 49 percent from the field, he should be universally owned by next week.

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Francisco Garcia: Fantasy Pickup?

Garcia has much more upside than Udrih and is more skillful than Greene. Garcia provides help in the scarce categories of threes, steals, and blocks. He was solid in 2008-09, but injuries limited to only 25 games last year, making him fantasy-irrelevant. Basically, this is the first healthy year that Garcia will be playing with Evans, so we have yet to see the Evans-effect on Garcia.