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Khaman Maluach and the minutes Mark Williams leaves behind

Phoenix's starting center is out until February, and our projections have already moved his backup up the board.

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When a starter goes down for months, the fantasy question is never really about him. It is about who takes his minutes, and whether that player is on your waiver wire right now, and in Phoenix the answer is Khaman Maluach.

Ranks from our projections board and the analysts' consensus, updated nightly.

ESPN's injury list has Mark Williams out until February 1 with a labrum injury. Before that news the two projection services had Williams at 61 games and 23.7 minutes, and Maluach at 18.0 minutes as his backup. Our projections read the injury and moved both of them the morning it landed.

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