Add. Gui Santos plays a lot better when Jimmy Butler is off the floor, and Butler is now out for an extended stretch.
Butler was ruled out with an injury that typically carries a nine-to-12-month recovery window. A return between Christmas and March is the loose target, with December 1 listed as a return date, though the team says not to lock into that.
Across 42 games without Butler this season, Santos has averaged 27.25 FPG on 27.8 minutes. With Butler on the floor, that drops to 8.65 FPG on 10.1 minutes. Forty-two games is a real, substantial sample, not a small-sample fluke.
Santos sits at 19.8 FPG on the season, ranked 221st, and is only 21.26% rostered, so he should be sitting on most waiver wires right now. His minutes have also been trending up, at 30.4 in his last 10 games versus 20.7 for the season.
For props, expect his points and rebounds numbers to move most, since those are the categories driving the gap between his with-and-without splits.
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