Jeff Teague Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

The Bucks capped off the regular season with a completely shifted lineup 10 minutes after their game started. They took out their regulars, and rested them all in exchange for the end of bench players. Although this news came out after the game started, it's an ironically fitting way to end the regular season.

Teague has officially been upgraded from questionable and will be available to play in Friday's matchup against the Washington Wizards after missing two consecutive games due to a sprained left ankle. However, the Celtics will be without a host of role players because of the NBA's health and safety protocols, and Tristan Thompson, Robert Williams, and Grant Williams will all be subject to a minimum of seven-day isolation following contact tracing. Teague will likely join the starting lineup in place of Thompson, which will allow Daniel Theis to slide over to the center position, and he should have a substantially more sturdy minute floor than normal as the only center besides Tacko Fall, who's never recorded more than 10 minutes in a single game, on the active roster.

Teague has been included on the Celtics' initial injury report and won't play in Monday's matchup against the Toronto Raptors due to a sprained left ankle he sustained during Sunday's win, while Smart is currently listed as questionable with a sprained right thumb. If Smart is unable to give it a go, the Celtics would begin to look relatively depleted in the backcourt, but as things stand now, Payton Pritchard is poised for an increased role in the rotation after logging just under 28 minutes last time out. Since Teague also sees time at the shooting guard position in smaller lineup combinations, it's also possible someone like Carsen Edwards sees nominal minutes off the bench, but the more likely scenario is that Jaylen Brown spends more time playing up at the two-spot and one or both of Grant Williams and Semi Ojeleye see extended playing time at forward this evening.

Teague, Graham, and Vonleh have all been upgraded from questionable and are available to play in Sunday's matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers, while Karl-Anthony Towns will miss a 10th straight contest with a sprained left knee despite Minnesota continuing to list him as questionable prior to every game. There haven’t been any reports of a potential minute restriction for Andrew Wiggins, so he should displace either Kelan Martin or Jarrett Culver from the starting lineup and Culver's role will likely drastically decrease after logging at least 32 minutes in each of the Timberwolves previous three games now that Teague, Graham, and Vonleh are available as well. Wiggins unsurprisingly leads Minnesota with a 31.3% usage rate with Towns off the court, but Robert Covington has actually benefitted the most from a production standpoint, as he is averaging 1.04 DraftKings and 1.05 FanFuel points per minute in a 400.8 minutes sample size.

Wiggins, Towns, Teague, Graham, and Vonleh have all officially been downgraded from questionable and won't play in Thursday’s second leg of a back-to-back set against the Golden State Warriors, while Josh Okogie remains probable due to right elbow bursitis. With all of the aforementioned players sidelined for Wednesday’s loss, head coach Ryan Saunders started, Shabazz Napier, Jarrett Culver, Kelan Martin, Robert Covington, and Gorgui Dieng, but Napier, Culver, and Covington were the only three to log north of 30 minutes, indicating just how deep into his bench Saunders is willing to go with so many regulars unavailable to play the previous few games. The sample size with Teague, Wiggins, and Towns all off the court remains relatively limited, but in that time, Napier leads the Timberwolves with a 29.0% usage rate and is averaging 1.02 DraftKings and 0.93 FanDuel points per minute.

As expected, Teague won't play in Wednesday's matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks due to a sprained right knee, while Treveon Graham and Noah Vonleh remain questionable after missing the previous game with their respective ailments. Following Teague's final exit early in the fourth quarter of Monday's overtime loss, Shabazz Napier and Jarrett Culver handling all of the ballhandling and playmaking responsibilities as both players went on to record at least 34 minutes of action in the aforementioned contest. The sample size with Teague, Andrew Wiggins, and Karl-Anthony Towns all off the court remains relatively limited, but in that time, Napier leads the Timberwolves with a 31.4% usage rate but is only averaging 0.93 DraftKings and 0.86 FanDuel points per minute, leaving plenty of room for increased fantasy production as the sample size grows.

As expected, Teague has been upgraded from questionable and will be available to play in Wednesday’s matchup against the Utah Jazz due despite dealing with a sore left ankle, while Keita Bates-Diop was previously ruled out with an illness. With Jake Layman still sidelined, Bates-Diop had settled into a consistent role in head coach Ryan Saunders’ rotation and had logged at least 22 minutes in six of the previous eight contests, so his absence should open up plenty of extra playing time for Treveon Graham and Jarrett Culver this evening. Neither are particularly intriguing options on a massive 11-game slate, but Culver would be the preferred target of the two, as he owns a 20.2% usage rate and is averaging 0.84 DraftKings and 0.82 FanDuel points per minute on the season.

Wiggins and Teague have officially been upgraded from questionable and will play in Monday’s second leg of a back-to-back set against the Phoenix Suns, while Karl-Anthony Towns and Shabazz Napier are also available once again despite being listed as probable in each previous four games. Even in a blowout loss on Sunday night, both Wiggins and Teague managed to log close to a full workload in terms of minutes and weren’t even pulled until three minutes remained in the fourth quarter. So, they should be expected to be a full-go in tonight’s contest barring some sort of in-game setback or unforeseen cautiousness from the Timberwolves to manage their workloads.