The majority of High Score fantasy basketball leagues start the playoffs next week. You’ve either clinched a berth or need a win in the final week of the regular season to solidify your spot in the postseason. If you picked up a win in Week 19, there’s good chance one of these star players helped you on your way. Let’s go over the perfect lineup from last week and what it means moving forward into the playoffs.
Week 18 High Score Perfect Lineup.
(Taylor Wilhelm)
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Luka Dončić, guard: The real life story coming out of L.A. is the Lakers taking down the Knicks in a dominating 110-97 victory. But prior to that contest, Luka went off for 44 points on 14 of 25 shooting from the floor with nine rebounds, five assists and five stocks for the high score of the week. Fantasy managers are always going to lock Dončić into their lineups but may need to monitor the standings. The Lakers are still fighting for position in the middle of the West and need to avoid the play-in. As long as the Suns are threatening, the Lakers shouldn’t be resting Dončić.
Anthony Edwards, guard: We rarely see scoring guards like Edwards in this story. He’s a high volume scorer but doesn’t give us enough in the other categories to really break that ceiling. Ant Man got to 69 points thanks to points (41) and steals (5) in a win over the Grizzlies, who have had 26 different players play minutes for them this season. Like the Lakers, the T-Wolves have a solid lead among teams jockeying to stay out of the play-in but aren’t entirely clear yet (3.0 games up on Phoenix). Edwards has also stayed healthy lately, missing just one game since Jan. 17.
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Victor Wembanyama, frontcourt: Wemby and the Spurs have won four in a row and continue to keep pace with the Thunder atop the West. Blocks (of course) have kept Wembanyama’s fantasy totals in the green with at least four in five straight games, and in nine of the past 10. The Spurs only have a three-game week coming up but Wemby has been matchup proof for fantasy with at least 53 points in five straight games.
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Nikola Jokić, frontcourt: Managers may not be too happy with Jokić not hitting his ceiling lately. Since his 94-point outburst, the Joker has scored 75 and 72 fantasy points the past two weeks, respectively in High Score. That’s a drop by his standards, but still easily among the best. A dip in assists could be the reason why we aren’t seeing even bigger numbers from Jokić. He’s only averaging 8.0 assists over the past four games and has failed to reach double-digit dimes in six of the past nine games since the All-Star break.
OG Anunoby, froncourt: We almost always have a newcomer in this story each week and that honor belongs to the Knicks swingman. OG seems to always have a rare ceiling game every couple of weeks; he had 63 fantasy points in a revenge spot against the Raptors on Jan. 28. Perhaps its narrative-based. New York demolished the Nuggets over the weekend on Friday, Anunoby leading the way with 34 points, 7 boards, 5 assists and 5 stocks. That helped him just sneak past Hawks SF Jalen Johnson to make it in here.
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Jamal Murray, utility: Murray had a big game against the Jazz to open last week to make this list, but only played 18 minutes against the Knicks on Friday with the team trailing big at halftime. The Nuggets guard is also dealing with an ankle injury that has him listed as questionable to start Week 20. Denver has a four-game week but Murray could miss some time with the Wednesday-Thursday back-to-back looming. It’s not the best spot for fantasy managers who are fighting to get into the playoffs. The schedule is brutal as well, all four games against top teams in the West: the Thunder, Rockets, Spurs and Lakers.
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