Fantasy basketball waiver wire: the best streamers with 4 games, 16-22 November

The best fantasy basketball waiver wire pickups for 16 to 22 November 2026 come from the 13 NBA teams that play 4 games that week. On the Statz streamers method, Jrue Holiday of the Portland Trail Blazers leads with a week value of 12.68: a per-game value of 3.17 times 4 games.

The NBA fantasy schedule grid shows 13 teams with 4 games, 16 with 3 and 1 team, the Charlotte Hornets, with only 2. No team plays 5. That spread is why the pickup that wins a category week is often a schedule decision rather than a talent one: a 4-game player gets 33% more chances than a 3-game player and twice as many as a Hornet.

This piece applies the NBA fantasy streamers board's method to next week. It takes the 257 players ranked 61st to 317th on 9-category value in the NBA fantasy rankings, multiplies each per-game value by his team's games for 16 to 22 November, and sorts them. All values cover 2026-27 games through 11 November, with a minimum of 7 appearances.

13 NBA teams play 4 games in the fantasy week of 16 to 22 November 2026, and none plays 5. They are Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Golden State, Memphis, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Portland, Utah and Washington, per the Statz schedule grid on 12 November.

Back-to-backs matter for streamers, because the second night is where a marginal player sits. 9 of the 13 four-game teams have 1 back-to-back. The Chicago Bulls, Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards play 4 games with no back-to-back, the cleanest weeks on the board. Portland play at Minnesota twice in a row, which is their back-to-back.

The other end matters too. Charlotte play only 2 games, at the Lakers and at Atlanta, so a Hornets player needs to be roughly twice as good per game as a 4-game option to match his week. The 16 three-game teams include the San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma City Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers. Every team's next 4 weeks are on the weekly NBA schedule grid.

Jrue Holiday is the best fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup for 16-22 November by week value, at 12.68. Darryn Peterson (12.48), Trey Murphy III (12.44), Derrick White (12.36) and Jalen Brunson (12.08) follow. All 12 players in the table below have 4 games.

The top 13 on next week's board all play 4 games. The first 3-game player is Andrew Nembhard in 14th at 9.75, even though his 3.25 per-game value is the highest of anyone outside the top 60. That is the schedule effect in one line: 1 extra game moved 13 players past him.

Two names will look out of place on a waiver list. Jalen Brunson is ranked 69th on 9-category value despite 26.0 points a game, because his shooting volume costs him in field goal percentage (a z-score of -1.03) and he adds little in rebounds, steals or blocks. LaMelo Ball is 71st at 2.97, with 3.36 threes and 1.73 steals per game for Minnesota Timberwolves, on 27.3 minutes. Both may well be rostered in your league. Check your own wire, and use the board as a ranking of who is worth a claim if they are there.

Further down, Portland have 2 players in the top 9: Holiday and Damian Lillard at 11.40, on 19.8 points and 2.82 threes a game. New York also have 2, Brunson and OG Anunoby at 11.40. Trae Young of the Wizards is 13th at 10.28, with 8.3 assists a game and 4 games without a back-to-back.

Airious Bailey of the Utah Jazz is the best frontcourt streamer for 16-22 November, at a week value of 10.56 with 4 games. He averages 6.7 rebounds and 1.42 blocks. Jaxson Hayes, also a Jazz player, adds 1.45 blocks and a 62.1% field goal rate.

Cameron Boozer of the Memphis Grizzlies averages 9.82 rebounds and 5.45 assists, but his 36.8% shooting and 3.27 turnovers cost him in category leagues. Paul Reed of the Detroit Pistons gives 7.4 rebounds in 25.4 minutes. Robert Williams III plays only 16.0 minutes for Portland, yet his 67.4% shooting and 1.11 blocks put him in the top 25 of next week's board at 8.72.

For a punt build, the fantasy rankings with punt filters re-rank the whole pool without the categories you are giving up, and the streamers table will move with it.

4 players near the top of next week's streamer board appear on the NBA injury report on 12 November 2026. Trey Murphy III (knee), Caleb Wilson (hand) and Devin Vassell (adductor) are day-to-day with a listed return of 13 November. Scottie Barnes (groin) is listed out.

Murphy is 3rd on the board at 12.44 and Wilson 11th at 10.80, so both are worth watching through the weekend. A day-to-day tag with a return date before Monday is not a promise. The Pelicans injury report and the Bulls injury report update as teams post statuses, and each player's game log shows whether minutes come back at full size.

Murphy has played only 9 games this season, and Dejounte Murray 9 for the same Pelicans team. Their values are built on smaller samples than the 12 games behind Peterson or White, so they can move more after a few nights.

Andrew Nembhard of the Indiana Pacers has the best per-game value outside the top 60, 3.25, but only 3 games from 16 to 22 November. His week value is 9.75. Ziaire Williams, Devin Vassell and Darius Acuff Jr. are in the same spot.

These 4 players are ranked 61st to 65th, so in deeper leagues they may be the better long-term holds even in a short week. Acuff, the Sacramento Kings rookie, scores 26.2 points a game in 36.8 minutes with 7.3 assists. A 3-game week does not make him a drop; it makes a 4-game player the better pickup for 7 days.

In head-to-head leagues with weekly lineups, compare the week value. In daily leagues with an open bench spot, a 3-game player can be streamed into the gaps on nights when your roster has fewer than 10 players active.

The Statz streamers board ranks players by per-game value times games, using the 9-category value from the fantasy basketball rankings. That value sums z-scores across points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, threes, field goal and free throw impact, and turnovers.

The pool is the 317 players with 7 or more appearances in 2026-27. The board skips the top 60, because those players are rostered in almost every league. It then multiplies value by games from the schedule grid and lists the top 60 of what is left, flagging back-to-backs.

The fantasy streamers board on statz.ai shows the current week until Sunday and rolls to 16-22 November on Monday, so the live numbers will differ from this piece as games are played. For a trade rather than a pickup, the NBA fantasy trade analyzer compares players on the same values. Player streaks on the NBA player streaks page show who is running hot over recent games.