Walker Kessler

Los Angeles LakersYear 4th Season

HT/WT7' 2", 245 lbs

Age25

CollegeAuburn

Basketball/Teams/Los Angeles Lakers/Walker Kessler

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Dec 1, 2025

The Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report (Dec 1/25)

Welcome to the fifth edition of the Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report, where I take a look every Sunday at many things in fantasy basketball leagues. If this isn’t your first read, nice to see you back again. If this is the first time you’re signing in, thanks for giving me a try! In this edition:…

Nov 23, 2025

The Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report (Nov 22/25)

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report, where I take a look every Sunday at many things fantasy basketball. If this isn’t your first read, nice to see you back again. If this is the first time you’re signing in, thanks for giving me a try! In this edition: I’ll start…

Nov 15, 2025

The Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report (Nov 15/25)

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report, where I take a look every Sunday morning at all things fantasy basketball. Nice to see you back again! In this edition: We’re starting to see which teams are good to monitor and avoid based on their tendencies, for both all-season and DFS purposes. …

Nov 1, 2025

The Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report (Nov 1/25)

Welcome to the second edition of the Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report, where I take a look every Sunday morning at all things fantasy basketball. We’ll lead off with the big fantasy hoops headlines from the week. Lots of news and notes, some sell-highs and buy-lows, a potential trade I like, some stats that interest me,…

Oct 26, 2025

The Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report (Oct 25/ 2025)

Welcome to the first edition of the Weekly Fantasy Hoops Report, where I take a look every Saturday at all things fantasy basketball. We’ll lead off with the big fantasy hoops headlines from the week. We’ll look at some risers and fallers in quick notes, rookie debuts, a few full-season waiver wire pickups that emerged…

Oct 17, 2025

Draft Weekend Risers & Fallers and Tiers

Some things have changed in fantasy basketball with injury news and the Russell Westbrook signing. Let’s first take a quick look at some risers and fallers in my rankings. Then, I’ll give you some draft tiers to use for your drafts on this big draft weekend. Welcome to Draft Weekend Risers & Fallers and Tiers….

Oct 10, 2025

Bargains and Busts (CBS & Yahoo Weekly Format)

CBS and Yahoo are two of the three largest Fantasy Basketball sites, along with ESPN, which I analyzed earlier this week. I grouped them here because these two sites are more similar than different in terms of point formats, and vastly different from ESPN’s game. The default points league games on these sites happen weekly,…

Oct 8, 2025

Fantasy Basketball ADP Anomalies On ESPN

ESPN, Yahoo, and CBS are still the kings of fantasy basketball. While each defaults to a head-to-head, points league format, different sites have different default scoring systems. The first article is on ESPN, and the second is on Yahoo and CBS, as those two sites have more in common than they have differences. I will…

Sep 27, 2025

Winning by Punting Categories (Part 1)

Many successful 8-category fantasy basketball players use the strategy of punting a category. Punting a category is the process of drafting to intentionally losing, or punt, one category to try to win others. This often works because you only have to win more than half of the statistical categories to win a head-to-head (H2H) matchup….

Sep 9, 2025

Category vs. Points Leagues

The first, most important thing you can do after joining any fantasy league is learn your league rules. The two most common types of fantasy basketball league differences come in Category vs. Points Leagues. These leagues have all the same players, but are not the same at all. You’re going to want to own Nikola…

Jul 23, 2025

Summer League Stars and Potential Breakouts

It’s hard to predict how Summer League stars will produce during the NBA season. You know, the one that counts for all of our real fantasy stats. For every Donovan Mitchell, Quentin Grimes, and Cam Thomas, guys that translate summer success into NBA stardom, there’s a Kevin Knox II, Josh Selby, and Archie Goodwin, players…