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Welcome to Pleasure Town – The Celtics in 6 2008-06-18 09:39:28 Well, as a Celtics fan, that was a fun night. There is nothing quite like watching Michelle Tafoya trying to interview a screaming, crying, incoherent KG after the win. And there’s already video up of the interview. Blogs are awesome.
Some slightly coherent thoughts about game 6 (which is why I didn’t attempt to [...] Read more:Welcome
Sleeper Pick: Lou Williams 2008-06-24 09:19:46 Passion and Pride does a sort of video comparison of Louis Williams
against the 2008 draft prospects. The part that I find the most intriguing is that Williams is playing against people who are already in the NBA in his video, where as the draft prospects are shown against high school and college players. Of [...] Read more:Sleeper
Olympic Team Announced Fantasy Impact 2008-06-23 17:48:52 With this post, I introduce GMTR’s 82nd category: Fantasy Draft Guide Mojo 2008 (in Spanish it’s: Dos Mil Ocho, so that way it rhymes)
Roster from AOL Fanhouse:
Carlos Boozer, Utah Jazz
Carmelo Anthony, Denver Nuggets
Chris Bosh, Toronto Raptors
Chris Paul, New Orleans Hornets
Deron Williams, Utah Jazz
Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat
Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
Jason Kidd, Dallas Mavericks
Ko Read more:Olympic
Dissecting the Big Board 2008-06-21 21:00:22 Wake up grandma, cause Brandon Funston has his first Fantasy Basketball Big Board
up on Yahoo. Actually, he had it up on May 30th, which seems ridiculously early to coherently think about next season, but Brandon Funston has the largest set of balls on the Interwebs.* Personally, I’d wait until at least until after the [...] Read more:Dissecting
Introducing the GMTR Big Board 2008-07-05 06:42:45 Well, Nels has finally gone and done it. GMTR now has a Big Board
, and it’s 4 times as big as Yahoo’s Big Board. If Yahoo and GMTR were male porn stars, we’d be John Holmes, snorting cocaine off the backs of truck stop toilets and turning tricks to support our habits… or… you get [...] Read more:Introducing
Fantasy Mock Drafts Start Now! (Really?!?) 2008-07-02 15:40:07 Over at Yahoo, they’ve started a fantasy basketball mock draft for 08-09.
Now, I was working on a Big Board of GMTR Rankings… which I guess is essentially the same as a mock draft, but still, the difference in concept of Rankings vs. Mock Draft is an Evel Knievel-like chasm.
Nevertheless… I’ve started a new spreadsheet: the [...] Read more:Start
Baron Davis to the Clippers? 2008-07-02 06:43:28 According to Drive and Dish who provides no links, but Rotowire via Yahoo also says that on July 9th, The Baron
will sign with the Clippers
.
Did I mention it’s The Everybody Wants a Point Guard Era?
I’ll be on vacation without internet access on the 9th (I know, poor planning), and since I leave for that [...] Read more:Davis
Where in the World is Chris Paul? 2008-07-01 07:40:49 What has Chris
Paul been doing during the offseason? Apparently, he’s been hanging out with my cousin at Disney World
. At least it’s good to see he’s getting some R&R before the Olympics.
How can I get my hands on one of those VIP tags?
Alternate post title: I see your Thabo and raise you a [...]
Yao Ming Vows to Play for China’s National Team – Fantasy Impact 2008-06-29 13:44:31 Nels recently posted about the US national team and the possible fantasy impact that the Olympics will have on the players during the regular season. In the comments, reader siukong asked our opinion on Yao Ming and (presumably) Ming’s recent comments that he’ll ready to play for China
’s national team come July.
Now Ming’s injury history [...] Read more:National
Everybody Wants a Point Guard 2008-06-28 11:37:31 That’s right folks, Chris Paul and Deron Williams have singlehandedly ushered in a new era in the NBA. For lack of a better term, let’s call it the Everybody
Wants a Point Guard
Era. I, of course, am hoping that Derrick Rose will be the next step in the evolution of this era. Patrick is [...]
Coherent thoughts will appear when they do 2008-06-27 17:34:14 I had to do way too much work for a Friday, but there should be some actual draft - and fantasy - related posts coming soon.
In the mean time… I’m pretty much elated to find/figure out that Derrick Rose has at least an inch and a half on Chris Paul. As someone who is 5′ [...] Read more:thoughts
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Blazing Trails 2008-06-26 20:27:57 So, the combined NBA experience of the Blazers starting lineup is going to clock in at about 7 years? Read more:Blazing
It’s All But Official, Jermaine O’Neal for TJ Ford 2008-06-26 07:23:18 The rumored trade between the Pacers and Raptors involving Jermaine O’Neal for T.J. Ford, Rasho Nesterovic and Toronto’s No. 17 pick is officially on. Well, kind of. Because of a league memorandum on trades, it can’t officially happen until July 9th, so we’ll all just pretend nothing has happened for the next couple weeks. These [...] Read more:Official
Calling All Fantasy Basketbloggers 2008-06-25 18:04:56 and other people who like Digg-type social news sites.
I have set up a Fantasy Basketball Community at Mixx.com. Any posted links, videos, or photos that are tagged with “fantasy basketball” or “nba” will be automatically added to the Fantasy Basketball Community. From there, people can vote and leave comments (a la Digg, BallHype, YardBarker, etc.). [...] Read more:Calling
Court Rivals - There is No Off Season in Basketball 2008-07-19 20:12:20 Many of you have either heard of or played Cyberdunk - the “world’s biggest basketball MMORPG” (I’m taking their word for it since I only know of two). Both Nels and I played it for a while and I think we stopped for the same reason – the game simulator was not good. You can [...] Read more:Court
, Season
, Basketball
Nuggets Front Office Drunk Off Their Keisters, Trade Camby for Phantom Menace 2008-07-16 06:46:37 Points in the Paint asks if Camby is a Consolation Prize for losing Brand. Sure, Camby is not a 20 and 10 guy, but getting him for the right to switch places in the second round with a team that is not really any worse than you in 2010 only brings up thoughts of conspiracy [...] Read more:Front
, Trade
, Phantom
, Menace
Release the Hounds: Free Agency Season Won’t Be Stopped 2008-07-15 17:00:32 Instead of trying to keep up with the clusterf**k of free agent signings and trades this off season, it’s much easier to let other people do the heavy lifting and then link to their work while making derogatory comments in this post about how they lack the ability to make intelligent, coherent thoughts and they’re [...] Read more:Season
, Release
Introducing the GMTR Big Board 2008-07-05 06:42:45 Well, Nels has finally gone and done it. GMTR now has a Big Board
, and it’s 4 times as big as Yahoo’s Big Board. If Yahoo and GMTR were male porn stars, we’d be John Holmes, snorting cocaine off the backs of truck stop toilets and turning tricks to support our habits… or… you get [...] Read more:Introducing
Fantasy Mock Drafts Start Now! (Really?!?) 2008-07-02 15:40:07 Over at Yahoo, they’ve started a fantasy basketball mock draft for 08-09.
Now, I was working on a Big Board of GMTR Rankings… which I guess is essentially the same as a mock draft, but still, the difference in concept of Rankings vs. Mock Draft is an Evel Knievel-like chasm.
Nevertheless… I’ve started a new spreadsheet: the [...] Read more:Start
Baron Davis to the Clippers? 2008-07-02 06:43:28 According to Drive and Dish who provides no links, but Rotowire via Yahoo also says that on July 9th, The Baron
will sign with the Clippers
.
Did I mention it’s The Everybody Wants a Point Guard Era?
I’ll be on vacation without internet access on the 9th (I know, poor planning), and since I leave for that [...] Read more:Davis
Where in the World is Chris Paul? 2008-07-01 07:40:49 What has Chris
Paul been doing during the offseason? Apparently, he’s been hanging out with my cousin at Disney World
. At least it’s good to see he’s getting some R&R before the Olympics.
How can I get my hands on one of those VIP tags?
Alternate post title: I see your Thabo and raise you a [...]
Yao Ming Vows to Play for China’s National Team – Fantasy Impact 2008-06-29 13:44:31 Nels recently posted about the US national team and the possible fantasy impact that the Olympics will have on the players during the regular season. In the comments, reader siukong asked our opinion on Yao Ming and (presumably) Ming’s recent comments that he’ll ready to play for China
’s national team come July.
Now Ming’s injury history [...] Read more:National
Everybody Wants a Point Guard 2008-06-28 11:37:31 That’s right folks, Chris Paul and Deron Williams have singlehandedly ushered in a new era in the NBA. For lack of a better term, let’s call it the Everybody
Wants a Point Guard
Era. I, of course, am hoping that Derrick Rose will be the next step in the evolution of this era. Patrick is [...]
Fantasy Basketball Tip #3: Avoid the Youth Tax 2008-08-05 13:48:15 I like them young and I bet you do too. Hmm. What? I’m talking about NBA players and fantasy drafts (especially if my wife is reading this). NBA rookies - and to a lesser extent other young unproven players - always seem to be in demand during fantasy drafts. I believe it’s partly because they [...] Read more:Basketball
, Avoid
Planning for the Draft (from Full Court Press) 2008-07-31 17:06:21 Full CourtPress
Fantasy Basketball provides a way to plan for your draft on a pick-by-pick basis. They started with the 2nd pick, since you’ll have much harder decisions to make this season if you’re sitting at number 2. Now, in many leagues, you won’t actually know which pick will be yours until 10-30 minutes [...] Read more:Draft
Give Me The Rock Turns 4 2008-07-30 08:32:31 Last year GMTR was hosting the big Carnival party. This year, GMTR is forgetting to submit posts to the big Carnival party. Unlike Patrick, I was carefully trimming my public hair.
Since we messed that up pretty bad, and we have to have something to celebrate on our Blogiversary, here is (drumroll please) a photo [...]
Carnival of the NBA #58: Will Ferrell Edition 2008-07-29 20:43:03 Up a little late, but what the hell. Carnival
#58, the brainchild of J.E. Skeets, is live over at Yahoo’s Ball Don’t Lie. And hey look, GMTR is nowhere to be found because we forgot to submit something… anything. It’s not like being linked by Yahoo is important or drives any traffic. I must care [...] Read more:NBA
, Ferrell
, Edition
, Will Ferrell
GMTR Fantasy Basketball Big Board Updated (July 24) 2008-07-24 18:43:46 Now that things have calmed down (a little), Patrick and I have gone through and updated our rankings for the GMTR Big Board
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In case you aren’t sure where that first link goes, here’s one that makes it real simple:
Link to GMTR Big Board (2008-09) Read more:Basketball
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