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Stauskas

Stauskas finished last season with Boston before being traded to Indiana this off-season for Malcolm Brogdon. He was immediately waived, and then joined the College Park Skyhawks. The Wolves acquired his rights in exchange for the rights to Chris Silva, who will join the Hawks in training camp. Stauskas won’t be fantasy relevant this season.

The Pacers recently agreed (verbally) with Deandre Ayton on an offer sheet worth $133 million over four years, so the front office has to free up cap space to sign him. Stauskas, Fitts, and Morgan were all acquired from the Celtics in the Malcolm Brogdon trade, and they were unlikely to log rotation minutes if the Pacers decided to hold onto them.

Stauskas has a non-guaranteed $2.1 million salary for 2022-23, so there’s a good chance he never dons a Pacers uniform. He’s never had sustained fantasy relevance throughout his six-year NBA career, and that’s not about to change.

Brogdon finally has a new home. He’s been in the rumor mill for what feels like years, especially with Indiana clearly in the middle of a rebuild. If Brogdon can stay healthy, a backcourt of him, Marcus Smart, and Derrick White will be very difficult to score on. Assuming Boston doesn’t decide to send Smart back to a bench role, Brogdon will be one of the best sixth men in the league and should still play a huge role. The Celtics didn’t have to give up much, as none of those five players were a part of their rotation when the team was healthy, and that should be a very late first round pick unless things go very south for the Celtics next season.

Nothing to see here, folks.

He’s not in the rotation anyways.

Stauskas being sidelined will not impact any fantasy leagues. However, in case the Celtics want to rest some guys for Thursday’s game in Milwaukee, hopefully, “Sauce Castillo” will be healthy enough to get some run then.

His absence will not affect any fantasy league out there.

Stauskas is miles from the fantasy radar, so this won’t affect a single thing.

His contract will run through the end of this season and carry over into the 2022-23 season, and while he’s been lighting it up in the G League, we doubt that’ll carry over to the NBA. Through six years of NBA experience, Hot Sauce owns meager averages of 6.8 points, 2.1 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.2 triples per contest on 38.9% shooting.