NBA Supercoach | Week 17: Buy, Hold & Sell

Everyone’s favourite time of the week where I pretend to know&nbsp;what’s going to happen in the next 7 days of NBA Supercoach based on&nbsp;player form,&nbsp;injury news,&nbsp;upcoming schedules and an intimate knowledge of&nbsp;2010’s basketball.&nbsp;Is&nbsp;that all relevant? Only time will tell.&nbsp;



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">BUY</h3>



All-Star Weekend is in the rearview mirror, so it’s officially tanking season! 



There are going to be a lot of opportunities to pick up bargains and “point of difference players” down the stretch, so we’re going to focus on a handful of&nbsp;lesser names this week.&nbsp;



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Donovan Clingan (POR, C)



Cling Kong is having himself a season.&nbsp;



We mentioned the big sophomore as a Buy last weekand he went and dropped a&nbsp;lazy 151 SC points.&nbsp;



Portland has nothing to lose by playing&nbsp;Clingan&nbsp;heavy minutes,&nbsp;and the Supercoach scores are following the stat line,&nbsp;averaging 17 points, 13&nbsp;rebounds,&nbsp;3 assists,&nbsp;and over 2 blocks per game&nbsp;over the last fortnight.&nbsp;



His price is on the rise, which means his breakeven is only going to get more painful the longer you wait. 



If you&nbsp;have room for a&nbsp;centre with&nbsp;a&nbsp;rising&nbsp;ceiling,&nbsp;then&nbsp;stop waiting for a better time.



Kevin Porter Jr. (MIL, SG/PG)



Yes,&nbsp;KPJ gets a mention every other week in here, and no,&nbsp;I don’t feel bad about it.&nbsp;



With Giannis still on the shelf, KPJ is running Milwaukee&#8217;s offense and absolutely thriving. 



He&#8217;s averaged 21 points, 8 assists,&nbsp;and 4&nbsp;rebounds&nbsp;over&nbsp;the last 15 days&nbsp;and is a genuine difference&nbsp;maker at around the $12-$13M mark.&nbsp;



There&#8217;s&nbsp;a chance&nbsp;Ryan Rollins&nbsp;will start&nbsp;pushing for&nbsp;more&nbsp;minutes, but Porter has reasserted himself as the clear starter&nbsp;for now.&nbsp;



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">21 PTS 👑 19 REB 👑 8/14 FG What a night for the ROOKIE! Maxime Raynaud hauled down a career-high in rebounds during a near 20-20 effort for the <a href="https://twitter.com/SacramentoKings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sacramentokings</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GLeagueAlum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GLeagueAlum</a> <a href="https://t.co/pSGrtWlMcZ">pic.twitter.com/pSGrtWlMcZ</a>&mdash; NBA G League (@nbagleague) <a href="https://twitter.com/nbagleague/status/2021274872610160935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Maxime Raynaud (SAC, PF/C)



With Domantas Sabonis sidelined, Raynaud has been handed a starter&#8217;s workload,&nbsp;and he&#8217;s run with it! 



Over 30 minutes&nbsp;a night, three big&nbsp;double-doubles&nbsp;in the last four games, and an open runway for the rest of the season…all for less than $10M.&nbsp;



The fact that he’s another Centre isn’t ideal as there are plenty of good options to fill the role, but&nbsp;42nd overall and is producing like a top-end option,&nbsp;and that&#8217;s the kind of value that wins&nbsp;you a&nbsp;Supercoach matchup.&nbsp;



Bennedict Mathurin (LAC, SF/SG)



*Disclaimer – don’t buy him this week as the Clippers only play two games.&nbsp;This is a love letter for Week 18.&nbsp;



Bennedict “I wish I knew how to quit you”&nbsp;Mathurin. 



I wasted a whole lot of my already minimal reputation points backing this guy early in the season at Indiana, and thought I’d kicked the habit…but sure enough lands in LA and catches fire like only he can. 



He matched his career-high with 38 points in just his second game as a Clipper, then followed it up with 26 more. 



The 23-year-old has inherited a massive role in an offence that desperately needs another&nbsp;scorer.&nbsp;



Currently $9.5M at time of writing, come join me on the bandwagon for a couple of weeks until he forgets how good he is again.&nbsp;



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">Brandin Podziemski today: 18 Points 15 Rebounds 9 Assists +19 +/- 37 Minutes <a href="https://t.co/v8xu74qF7X">pic.twitter.com/v8xu74qF7X</a>&mdash; Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheHoopCentral/status/2025709404834955346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Brandin Podziemski&nbsp;(GS, SG/PG)



Alright, let’s get weird!&nbsp;One of the league’s worst haircuts is having a moment while Steph is out of action, averaging 14 points, 11 rebounds &amp; 7 assists last week, including leading the&nbsp;under-manned&nbsp;Warriors to an unlikely win over the Nuggets.&nbsp;



Steph is due to be out for at least another 7 days, so if you’re at the Hail Mary stage of your&nbsp;SuperCoach&nbsp;season already, then here’s a man with 0.9% ownership and a licence to shoot for the upcoming game week.&nbsp;



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">HOLD</h3>



Austin Reaves (LAL, PG/SG)



In comparison to his early season form,&nbsp;AR-15 hasn’t come back in his return from injury and set the world alight, averaging a largely inefficient 19 / 5 / 5 since over the last two weeks.&nbsp;



Don&#8217;t be tempted to cash in just yet on the value he’s built &#8211; for starters, he&#8217;s almost certainly going to find his legs, and on top of that, there’s likely to be plenty of rest for LeBron and even Luka over the remainder of the regular season, which is typically when Austin does his best work. 



He&#8217;s not going to be your big skipper every week, but he&#8217;s the kind of&nbsp;mid-value player&nbsp;who keeps your total ticking over and rarely lets you down.&nbsp;



Pascal Siakam (IND, PF/SF)



Siakam missed three&nbsp;straight&nbsp;games&nbsp;last week&nbsp;with left hamstring soreness, which is obviously not ideal, but don&#8217;t let the injury scare you into a panic trade. 



When he plays, he&#8217;s&nbsp;a goat, averaging 24&nbsp;points, 7&nbsp;rebounds, and&nbsp;4 assists for the season, and will continue to beIndiana&#8217;s go-to guy.&nbsp;



Exhibit A &#8211; he came back today vs Dallas and strolled straight into a casual 30-point game. 



The real test will be how long the Pacers continue to play him as their season goes down the toilet, but between now and then,&nbsp;trust that he&#8217;ll keep&nbsp;delivering the scores that made him a premium pick in the first place.



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Cooper Flagg (DAL, SF/PF)



The best rook in the league&nbsp;(sorry Kon)&nbsp;is sidelined with a foot sprain, and yes, it&#8217;s frustrating,&nbsp;but don&#8217;t you dare&nbsp;lower the flag just yet.&nbsp;



The return timeline is looking short, and while&nbsp;Dallas&nbsp;definitely&nbsp;isn’t&nbsp;tanking&nbsp;(wink wink),&nbsp;they’ll still want to keep Cooper on the court to keep the fans coming to the arena.&nbsp;



Hold him, keep an eye on the injury updates, and know that when he does&nbsp;play, he’ll continue to deliver.&nbsp;



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">SELL</h3>



Kawhi Leonard (LAC, SF/PF)



For all the Kawhi injury jokes I’ve fired off this season, it’s only fair to give the man credit where it’s due.&nbsp;



He’s both a) not missing games and b) absolutely killing it over the last month or so, including 144 &amp; 134 SC points in the last two game weeks.&nbsp;



The sell this week is purely down&nbsp;to the Clippers playing just the two games, nothing more. 



With back-to-back 4-game weeks after that, he’s likely to be straight back in.



Devin Booker (PHX, SG/PG)



Book is dealing with a hip issue that&#8217;s&nbsp;looking to keep him out of action for a week, with his return projected somewhere&nbsp;in early&nbsp;March. 



That&#8217;s a problem on its own, but the bigger concern is that even when he&#8217;s been healthy, the production&nbsp;just hasn’t been there so far this season. 



He&#8217;s shooting a career-low 31% from three, and&nbsp;things are so bang average that Booker isn’t even the highest&nbsp;SuperCoach&nbsp;scorer for&nbsp;the Suns&nbsp;this year, sitting second behind (gulp) Mark Williams.&nbsp;



His ownership is only at 7%, and his value has dropped more than $2M already,&nbsp;and the Suns only play two games, so this might be the circuit breaker needed for the loyal owners to cut ties.&nbsp;



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Alperen Sengun (HOU, C)



We’ve tried, we’ve really, really tried. 



Look,&nbsp;Sengun&#8217;s talent is undeniable&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;20 points, 9rebounds, 6&nbsp;assists,&nbsp;2.5&nbsp;stocks per game is&nbsp;more than handy&nbsp;Supercoach production,&nbsp;but&nbsp;every time it seems like a good time to bring him in, then he has a cold week, and at some point you just have to admit the spark isn’t there in the relationship.&nbsp;



There are just too many good centres available, and at a variety of different price points, to justify sticking with a $16M wet fish.

NBA Supercoach | Week 17: Buy, Hold & Sell

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