Fantasy Basketball: Week 13 Trade Values (2024)

Last week in this spot, I took a look at some big name players you might want to sell high on. We'll look for second-half breakout candidates in the next few days as well, so this week's edition of the trade value chart won't have a big theme. Instead, I took to Twitter to help out some readers with trade dilemmas they are dealing with, from blockbusters to the mundane.

If Jordan is killing your free-throw percentage, it might be worth it to pull the trigger on this trade regardless, but I think it's a pretty good one given your apparent desperation. If your league-mate doesn't want to take advantage of that fact, you're in a great spot. Teague probably has a better combination of safety and upside than Oladipo, because of his shooting and assists contributions, but his fluctuating role has made him much less of a sure thing than in years past. Losing Jordan will hurt you in rebounds and field goal percentage, but the Nerlens/Oladipo combination shoots 65.9 percent and will is probably a net gain in the defensive categories, making this a win for you.

I don't really see the point in trades like this. Per the chart, it comes out to just about dead even, which makes perfect sense. You're talking about swapping two top-15 players for two other top-15 players, which means it probably comes down to what your team has. If pressed, I would probably come down on the Davis/Wall side, but there's hardly a clear winner either way. Which means whichever side comes out a winner is likely to be determined more by luck than anything else; is that really how you want your season to go?

C.J. McCollum for Carmelo Anthony is a really intriguing trade question, given how solid McCollum has been and how much potential he still might have to grow into. Anthony got off to a slow start to the season as well, and looked like he might be falling off the star tier coming off season-ending knee surgery last spring. A few weeks back, I might have considered this one -- McCollum was doing a bit more play-making and 3-point shooting, and upped his overall game in December -- but Anthony has seemingly embraced his all-around game in a way we've never seen before. He record seven assists in consecutive games for the first time in his career this week, and is averaging 21.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game in the month of January. If he is embracing his role as a play-maker on a Knicks team that could sure use one, his ceiling as a Fantasy option is significantly higher. I'm not opposed to selling high on Anthony in the wake of this run, but this definitely wouldn't be it.

Figuring out how to value Ish Smith is one of the tougher tasks in Fantasy right now. He's clearly making a huge impact for the 76ers, which means he is unlikely to lose his role anytime soon. His ability to rack up assists with a reasonable turnover rate is a hugely valuable skill, but his lack of 3-point shooting and dreadful overall shooting makes him an extremely team-dependent player. The answer to this trade likely comes down to the philosophy of the owners involved. If you believe the right way to build a team in a deep league is to build around stars, George is hard to beat. However, if you've got a number of holes on your roster that need filling -- or just can't stand the thought of one injury completely torpedoing your season -- trading for depth might make more sense. The Ish-J.J. Redick-Taj Gibson combination in particular could be a very fruitful one, given how they cover up for one another. Redick can certainly make up for Smith's lack of shooting, and he and Taj are efficient enough that you won't necessarily be killed by Smith's field goal percentage either. That Joakim Noah's season-ending injury should open up consistent minutes for Gibson -- 29.4 MPG over the last five -- helps, though he needs to step up his game to really make it a win.

Saving the best for last... All three players are useful in a deeper league, but Dieng clearly has the most upside of the three. His ability to fill up the box score at the center position is extremely valuable, and if he were to get a 30 MPG role, he would be a difference maker in categories -- he averaged 9.7 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and a combined 2.7 blocks while shooting 50.6 percent from the field and 78.3 percent from the free-throw line last season. However, with Karl-Anthony Towns around, minutes are hard to come by for Dieng, and his production has cratered of late. Ed Davis and Jerryd Bayless have less upside than Dieng, but the chances of him actually hitting that upside are incredibly slim. I would probably pull the trigger on this one.