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Dirk is Down 2008-03-23 18:21:17 Time to get Dirk Nowitzki out of your lineups for next week. Looks like Nowitzki injured his left leg in the third quarter of today’s game against the Spurs. According to the Dallas Morning News:
Nowitzki was playing defense against a driving Ime Udoka. The pair collided in midair and Nowitzki landed on his left leg, [...]
Day 145 of 170: Watch the Kings… For Fantasy Purposes Only, Of Course 2008-03-23 07:11:40 A Happy Easter to all those celebrating! Now on to yesterday’s games.
Line of the Night: Joe Johnson’s (5.2) line isn’t a wower, it’s just all-around good. Johnson shot 12-20 from the floor, 7-7 from the line, and finished with 34/5/7, 3 steals and a block as the Hawks beat the Magic 98-90.
Honorable Mentions: Squatters’ [...]
Big Ass Board – 3/23/08 (Easter Edition) 2008-03-22 18:02:06 Notable Injuries: Shawn Marion (going to Pleasure Town on a pile of cash); Chris Kaman (time to face the facts, he’s not coming back this year); Andrew Bynum (Capgras); Gilbert Arenas (the stars point to a Tuesday return); Zach Randolph (Isiahitis); Jamaal Tinsley (done for the season); Jermaine O’Neal (practicing, possible return sometime next week); [...] Read more:Board
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Day 144 of 170: Mike Miller Uses the Power of the Headband for Good 2008-03-22 07:56:49 NBA.com is being a little bitch again and refusing to update their stats, so let’s roll on with a little GMTR special sauce. (If you’re not familiar with the GMTR stats, they mimic the ones on our player rater, and unlike NBA.com, our scores go into the negative just to emphasize how much we absolutely [...] Read more:Miller
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Day 147 of 170: The Miami Heat Are So Bad, They’re Actually Good 2008-03-25 11:00:54 Line of the Night: Lamar Odom (6.0). Typically, to get a 6+ on the rater, a guy has to have a monster of a game. I think this line from Odom qualifies - 23 points off 10-15 shooting, 21 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 5 blocks as the Lakers beat the Warriors in OT. [...] Read more:Miami
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Day 146 of 170: Capt Jack Makes It Rain (Threes) 2008-03-24 09:05:36 Line of the Night: Stephen Jackson (6.1). My, how times have changed. Could you have seen this written about Jackson before this season?
Just when it appeared the Los Angeles Lakers were going to successfully rally from a 26-point deficit, the Golden State Warriors turned to Stephen Jackson.
Smart move.
Like Joe Johnson yesterday, Capt Jack’s line isn’t [...] Read more:Threes
Day 150 of 170: Jason Kidd is not retiring 2008-03-28 08:22:45 Line of the Night: Jason
Kidd (6.42) pulled out the first 6+ I’ve seen in a while. Or at least that I remember seeing. And reality and what I remember can be two vastly different things. Kidd had 19 points on 6/11, 4/5 and 3 threes. He also has 15 assists, 4 rebounds (no triple-double??), [...]
Carnival of The NBA 55. And Some Links 2008-03-27 20:11:23 The latest NBACarnival
- Carnival of the NBA 55 - is up at Daily Basketball. This on is presented in a sweet calendar format for easy browsing. As mentioned in the Carnival:
The theme for this “issue” of the Carnival is “Make up your own NBA holiday.” … Bloggers for struggling teams wasted no time [...]
Day 149 of 170: The Day C-Webb Hung Up His Shoes 2008-03-27 08:13:04 I hate to be so quick to dismiss someone like Chris Webber, but this is a fantasy basketball blog, and if you really want to read people opining on the career that was, well, there’s plenty of other places where that’s happening.
Line of the Night: If you filled in yesterday’s madlibs with anything along the [...]
Day 148 of 170: Mad Libs 2008-03-26 08:45:28 Meme time, baby!
Jeff Wong over at The Score stole the Mad Libs idea from Brett Edwards at AOL FanHouse, and who am I if not the World Greatest Copycheater?
Here’s the words you’ll need:
URL
Player Name
verb
noun
adjective
verb
verb, past tense
verb, past tense
adverb
verb, past tense
noun
adjective
verb
verb
verb
Write them down on a piece of scrap paper, in your Moleskine, in a notepad file, [...]
Day 152 of 170: Backwards Day 2008-03-30 07:37:13 Did you ever have “backwards day” in elementary school, where everyone would wear their clothes backwards and the day would be all mixed up? No? Me neither. But let’s make up for lost time with the strange day that was yesterday.
Line of the Night: If you had Al Thornton (5.7) in your lineup yesterday, [...] Read more:Backwards
Big Ass Board – 3/30/08 2008-03-29 18:28:33 A change to the Board
with the big ass this week. I’ve adjusted the formula to give more weight to a guy’s recent performance instead of his year-to-date performance. I did this because, as Yoda taught me, it matters not what one has done, but what one will do. Or some crap like that.
Notable Injuries: [...]
Day 151 of 170: Greg Oden is Back Playing Basketball 2008-03-29 07:11:22 Line of the Night: Kobe Bryant (5.8) by a Chicago mile*. Lets ignore the painful fact that the Lakers lost to the Grizzles, and focus on Kobe Bryant, the guy taking his recent look straight out of the Lisa ‘left Eye’ Lopes playbook. Kobe attempted an insane 17 threes and managed to hit 9 [...] Read more:Basketball
Day 154 of 170: Patience is Rewarded: Elton Brand is Back 2008-04-01 08:16:34 Line of the Night: It’s been a long 5 months for those of you holding onto EltonBrand
, but your patience has finally been rewarded as Brand returned against the Mavericks in style last night. The man-beast Brand (5.3) showed almost no ill effects of his surgery. Ok, so technically, he didn’t have the highest [...]
Day 153 of 170: The Battle for the West Continues 2008-03-31 08:14:37 and Ron Artest says it’s a “failure” that Sacramento isn’t in it (the battle, that is). Of course, he also said:
We have one of the best defensive players to ever play the game in myself.
Well, last night, that was certainly true…
Line of the Night: Ron Artest (5.83) had 29/12/3 with 2 threes and some good [...] Read more:Battle
Links For A Season Yet To Come 2008-04-04 14:19:42 DroppingDimes’ Alvin Lai takes a look at the candidates for fantasy basketball MVP. The candidates have been clear since about halfway through the season, really. It was just a matter of whether LeBron, Kobe, or CP3 would suffer an injury that would derail their fantasy season. So far, even with Kobe’s hanging ligament, they are [...] Read more:Season
Day 157 of 170: Larry Hughes likes to play hard against the Cavs 2008-04-04 07:48:16 Too bad he doesn’t have the same kind of bad blood with the Wizards or the Bulls might get 6 good games from him each season.
Line of the Night: Tracy McGrady (6.53) had 35/6/5 with 4 threes, 2 steals and a block. According to NBA.com, the Rockets are the only team with 4 wins over [...] Read more:Larry
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Day 156 of 170: Everbody’s Back! 2008-04-03 11:43:06 We had a full house last night. And by we, I mean, the NBA. Check below for the Comeback Kids.
Line of the Night: The Black Mamba (6.61). 36 points on 10/16 with 4 threes, and 12/13 from the line. Also, 13 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals. You think Pau Gasol (3.10) had anything to do [...]
Day 155 of 170: Is anyone NOT hoping that Dallas falls out? 2008-04-02 10:47:09 Line of the Night: Michael Redd! (It’s an inside joke that I don’t even remember any more) Someone forgot to tell Redd (5.30) that the Bucks aren’t competing for a playoff spot like most of the teams in the Western Conference. Redd threw up 36/6/9 with 4 threes and 2 steals to take the top [...] Read more:Dallas
Day 159 of 170: The Bobcats are no match for the Celtics’ C-Minus Team 2008-04-06 13:44:42 Line of the Night: It was huge night for Carmelo Anthony (6.7). He scored 47, going 19-24 from the field and 6-6 from the line, 11 boards, 3 steals and 3 threes. So, who cares that the Nuggets lost to the Kings dropping them into a tie for the 8th seed in the West. [...] Read more:Bobcats
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Day 158 of 170: Ricky Davis? I Don’t Think You Were Invited to this Party 2008-04-05 08:38:18 Line of the Night: With today being Unsung Player Day (in more ways than one), it’s fitting that RickyDavis
(5.8) crashes the party and trashes everything like he has with Cleveland, Boston, Milwaukee, and now Miami. Dude, stop making out with my sister, no one even wants you here. It was a season-high 33 [...] Read more:Party
Unsung Player Day: Danny Granger 2008-04-05 08:31:47 To celebrate Unsung Player Day, both Patrick and I decided to post today! Of course, Patrick actually had his post up and made the initially posting in that link there. I’ll be sending mine as soon as I finish…
As soon as I finish singing the unsung praises of Danny
Granger!
As Patrick said in his post:
This [...]
Happy Unsung Player Day, Where’s My Gift? 2008-04-05 07:11:04 It’s April 5th, and thanks to With Malice, we have a new holiday to enjoy: Unsung Player Day (with the gap between Easter and Memorial Day, April is sorely lacking in holidays). I loves me a good holiday (although I’m not sure why he made this one for a Saturday. The first rule for any [...] Read more:Happy
Day 161 of 170: NCAA Championship Day. All Hail Mario Chalmers 2008-04-08 09:52:46 No games yesterday. I hear there was an amateur game of some kind going on last night. It started at approximately 1 in the morning on the east coast, so in all honesty I didn’t make it to the end, which is too bad because it was a hell of an ending.
Since I know everyone [...] Read more:Mario
Day 160 of 170: Sonics Drop 151 on the Nuggets. 2008-04-07 09:05:38 Seriously. Has a team ever wanted to make the playoffs LESS than the Nuggets?
Line of the Night: I thought this might have been Mike Miller’s (6.2) first line of the night, but he already earned that honor on Day 144 (my mind is as sharp as Miller’s haircut). The two-time, two-time, two-time champ scored 34 [...] Read more:Sonics
Day 162 of 170: Utah Clinches Division; Bulls Clinch Lottery 2008-04-09 13:30:35 I only bring up the sad, sad Bulls because… well, I live in Chicago. What more do you want from me? I need to suffer with my team a little. I have already been to DraftExpress, though, to see what the prospects look like for the Bulls.
On a completely unrelated side note (while I’m waiting [...] Read more:Division
, Lottery
CBS All-Fantasy Teams Announced, some people still playing 2008-04-11 10:10:25 CBS has announced their All-Fantasy teams declaring Chris Paul the Fantasy Basketball MVP of 2007-08.
Rotowhine.com has also announced their awards, which take things outside of the ordinary (might I even said staid) fantasy award…
Of course, some people
are still playing a little fantasy basketball, and aren’t ready to call it quits. For those [...]
Day 164 of 170: Nuggets Have Hand 2008-04-11 07:13:04 Line of the Night: Only 3 games yesterday, but one of them was the epic showdown between the Nuggets and the Warriors for the 8th playoff spot in the West (using the current exchange rate, that roughly translates into the 3rd seed in the East). So, it’s only fitting that Carmelo Anthony (6.0) wins [...]
Who to Play and Who to Sit: An Eastern Conference Rundown 2008-04-10 16:07:38 Have we really hit the last week of fantasy basketball? If you’re one of the lucky ones, you are either wrapping up a roto league or you’ve already finished your H2H championships a week or two ago. If your team is in a championship this week? You’re probably screwed.
But let GMTR help you out. Jeff [...] Read more:Eastern
, Rundown
, Eastern Conference
Day 163 of 170: This is why the Suns traded for Shaq 2008-04-10 07:31:35 The Suns showed how valuable Shaq can still be last night. The Big All Inclusive scored 8 of his 16 points in a fourth quarter where Phoenix shut down San Antonio - at home, no less.
In related fantasy news, Amare (4.25) retook the 4th overall spot for the season (pushing Baron Davis down) with his [...]
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