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Day 165 of 170: Joe Johnson Wants to Make the Playoffs 2008-04-12 13:24:23 Line of the Night: Joe Johnson
(5.57) clearly wants to make the playoffs. He scored 34 points last night, including 6 threes, while shooting 62% from the field. He also had 4 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 1 block.
Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Since Carlos Delfino (5.03) is available in one of my [...] Read more:Playoffs
Day 166 of 170: It’s Time to Sing the Praises of Danny Granger 2008-04-13 07:53:02 Line of the Night: The not nearly as sung as he should be Danny
Granger (5.5) had a career high scoring night, finishing with 37 points off 6-12 from three. He added 5 boards, 2 assists, 2 steals and a block, although the Pacers suffered a playoff crushing loss from the Bobcats. While he [...]
Day 168 of 170: Isiah Thomas Wants a Parade 2008-04-15 07:46:57 Looks like NBA.com might be shutting it down for the year with some kind of fake ankle injury. Let’s roll on with the GMTR scores (close to the NBA ones, only like any good politician, they go negative).
It’s a sad, sad day. IsiahThomas
has probably/likely/with all certainty coached his last game at Madison Square [...] Read more:Parade
Day 167 of 170: So Long Seattle 2008-04-14 09:45:07 I thought about using the phrase “Sleepless in Seattle
” in the title, but then I would have had to punch myself in the face for being an idiot.
Line of the Night: The Nuggets inched closer to the playoffs with a 111-94 win over the Rockets yesterday and Allen Iverson (5.8) can take his share [...]
Rock The Vote 2008-04-17 20:48:20 I’m typically one not to shill, but I’ll make an exception for this event. While it has been up for a while now, Hardwood Paroxysm is currently running the NBA Blogger Season Awards for 2008. So far so good (in fact, I like the idea so much I’ve already voted). However, one of Hardwood’s categories [...]
Day 170 of 170: The World Ends 2008-04-17 15:24:30 It’s actually kind of appropriate I guess, that I was reading this story about the world being torn asunder when I was pinged about today being 170 (or rather yesterday being 170, and today being the day recapping 170).
Line of the Night: Mike Dunleavy Jr. with a world-ending 6.04. See, this is the kind of [...] Read more:World
Day 169 of 170: J-Rich Eats Pieces of Shit Like You For Breakfast. 2008-04-16 21:50:34 Line of the Night: Jason Richardson (6.4) looks like a guy who will beat the living piss out of you in his NBA.com page. The dude had 31 points, 5 threes, 10 rebounds, and, oh, how about 8 steals in a 112-108 Charlotte loss to the Nets.
Honorable Mentions: After he delivered my first child, [...] Read more:Breakfast
HoopsAddict Playoff Predictions 2008-04-18 13:23:50 Ryan over at HoopsAddict scared up a pretty good selection of bloggers (and others) to give their predictions for the playoffs. I only say it’s a pretty good selection because I got some quotes in there. But, if you’re not drowning in playoff prep material already, or you just can’t get enough of it, go [...] Read more:Predictions
Day 171 of 170: What, the Regular Season is Over? (End of the Year Awards) 2008-04-21 07:24:08 I had an empty feeling in my stomach this weekend because there were no regular season games to recap (although the playoffs started on an exciting note). But after investing 170 days of our lives, it’s only fitting to recap the best and worst of the season that was. What do you say, Nels?
Let’s start [...] Read more:Season
, Awards
Petition for the Standardization of Fantasy Basketball (First Draft) 2008-04-23 10:45:50 I’m sitting here, and it’s Wednesday morning, and I feel like I should be writing something. But I don’t want to do a playoff recap… that’s already been done to death, and besides, this blog is about fantasy basketball.
So, instead, I present the first draft of The Petition for the Standardization of Fantasy Basketball
I am [...] Read more:First
, Draft
The Playoffs are getting silly 2008-04-28 12:58:43 I was going to actually write something about the whole DeShawn-LeBron-Soulja-Boy-Jay-Z thing, but I’ll just do a quick recap in case anyone missed it:
0. Evidently, LeBron said the Wizards suck.
1. Publicly, DeShawn Stevenson said LeBron was overrated.
2. LeBron said that responding to DeShawn would be like Jay-Z responding to Soulja Boy.
3. Soulja boy showed up [...] Read more:Playoffs
Playoff Fantasy Basketball 2008-04-27 08:10:06 I know the feeling. The NBA regular season is over and your life feels empty. Fantasy baseball is a nicotine patch to last through the summer, but fantasy football sucks, as does having to face the real world without being able to talk about how you picked up Beno Udrih in the third week of [...] Read more:Basketball
As A Blogger 2008-04-30 20:40:28 There is not much I can really add that hasn’t already been said about Bussinger-gate in terms of the “blogosphere vs. MSM”. But let me proffer this: This is not a “blog” problem or an “MSM” problem. This is not a necessarily a problem at all, depending on how you view American society as a [...] Read more:Blogger
Carnival of the NBA #56 2008-05-05 09:38:22 The On Deck Circle seems like a more likely candidate for a Carnival
of MLB, judging by the name at least… but they’ve got Carnival of the NBA
#56 over there, so check it out.
There Can Be Only One 2008-05-09 08:11:04 I don’t remember where I read about it first, but someone noticed how in those There Can Be Only One commercials how they two players’ eyes always blink at the same time.
Here’s a really noticeable example.
Seriously? I am starting to think they’re fake. Or at the very least, heavily digitally edited. I mean, is [...]
Of Poseys and Posers 2008-05-10 20:05:01 It’s hard to like a team with James Posey on it, but it’s also hard to like the group of Lame-O players clustered around LeBron James.
The All Undrafted Team 2008-05-13 09:57:08 While I watch the Celtics play another game on the road like the Beacontown Beavers (pre-Teen Wolf edition)…
It seems like a daunting task, but could you have put together a decent fantasy team out of undrafted players at the start of the season? Now, the word undrafted is a moving target as it depends [...]
Deron Williams on Twitter 2008-05-15 13:26:41 Twitter.com/deronwilliams
He is still one of my favorite players solely based on the fact that he played at U of I when I was there, and he now stands as the only player that I like on the Jazz (Ronnie Brewer might make it if he ends up on one of my fantasy teams next season). [...] Read more:Williams
, Twitter
Bulls Win The Lottery 2008-05-21 08:06:28 Yeah, I’m sure it’s old news already, and it’s not like you come to GMTR for your breaking news anyway, but I was watching season 2 of LOST last night (5 episodes in 1 night!) since the Bulls only had a 1.7% chance of getting the top spot.
Here’s my new mantra:
Oh, pleasely, Paxson, Beasley, Paxson.
I [...] Read more:Lottery
Perk. Is. A. Beast. 2008-05-29 08:58:43 If the Celtics win this series against Detroit and move on to the Finals, Kendrick Perkins might replace Ray Allen as the third leg in the Celtics big three. But, at the very least he deserves a large fruit basket for his efforts. As the guys from Perk is a Beast
put it:
Our Sensei had [...]
Prophecy 2008-06-04 08:10:18 Here’s what I wrote for my prediction at With Malice, just so it’s on the record books. I’m sure Patrick is going to be a little more demonstrative in his prediction of how many games it will take for the Celtics to win.
The Celtics are older, but not so old that they’ll be outrun or [...] Read more:Prophecy
Ranking Players by Depth at Position 2008-06-05 14:27:47 Here comes a blockquote courtesy of an email I got a while ago…
Hey guys - I’ve been a lurker at your site for a while. Great site!
I was writing in because Iwanted to see if any of you would be willing to think through something with me.
I know you have your rankings, [...] Read more:Ranking
, Players
, Depth
Powe. Is. A. Beast. 2008-06-09 09:01:18 FYI - it’s still available:
For a team that was dogged most of the season for not having one, the Celtics are getting plenty of game changing play from their bench during the playoffs. Last night it was Leon Powe, who I hear warms up before games by doing cock pushups (at least that’s what [...] Read more:Beast
You just got Bloggo’d 2008-06-09 08:38:29 In addition to his new ad campaign, Rajon Rondo is blogging every day of the Finals. I wouldn’t be surprised if some Reebok intern is just transcribing what he says (a la Gilbert), but still, it’s pretty awesome to see that kind of dedication. And, of course, blogging every day of the Finals won’t take [...]
More on Ranking Players by Position 2008-06-10 09:31:46 A while ago (ok, it was more like a few days, but that’s forever in blog years) Nels posted a series of emails discussing the idea of ranking players by taking into account their position. The idea being is that a player becomes more valuable if the position he plays is scarce (think centers). [...] Read more:Ranking
, Players
He asked and she said yes. (Jaric and Lima) 2008-06-13 11:15:27 People Magazine via Scott Sargent of DroppingDimes.
Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima received an engagement ring Thursday night – her birthday – from basketball star Marko Jaric, his rep tells PEOPLE.
Not that anyone around here had a chance with Adriana Lima (or any other supermodel) anyway, being as we all live in our parents’ basements. I [...]
Game 4: Did I Miss Anything? 2008-06-13 09:20:56 Ok, I admit it. I’m an idiot. I turned off game 4 at the middle of the 3rd quarter with the Lakers up by 20. I’m an east coast guy. It was already 11 and I had to work the next day. Why should I waste good sleeping time screaming at Doc Rivers and watching [...]
The Top 100 Fantasy Players – A Visual Representation 2008-06-15 07:46:31 Fantasy basketball is all about lists: the top 20 point guards, the top 10 rookies, the 99 reasons why I hate Bonzi Wells. The game is driven by stats and these stats give us ample opportunity to calculate, sort, rank, and evaluate players in pretty much any way that we can think of, such as [...] Read more:Players
, Visual
, Representation
Thabo Sefolosha wants Derrick Rose 2008-06-14 12:27:14 And my wife is a French teacher. Why do you care? Well, if you don’t now, you probably won’t after this post. But a week or so ago, my wife was at an awards ceremony for students in an after school French program, and Thabo Sefolosha was the keynote speaker. Because she is awesome, my [...] Read more:wants
, Derrick
Carnival of the NBA #57 2008-06-17 09:24:22 On what could be the last day of the 2007-08 NBA
season, I’m just thinking about how long the Carnival
of the NBA must have been going on to have 57 entries so far. Raptors HQ was kind enough to include two links to GMTR in the latest edition of the Carnival.
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