After about a month of much ado about nothing, Lamar Odom is finally off the market, signing a multi-year deal to return to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Had Odom landed in Miami, which many expected, his value would have received a boost. After all, he would have been second fiddle to Dwyane Wade instead of being [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 31, 2009
Odom Chooses Not to Increase His Fantasy Value
July 30, 2009
Wheeling and Dealing
Technical issues have preventing from posting as much as I would like lately (anyone have a new computer I could, um, have for free?). And while it’s been mostly quiet as Carlos Boozer remains in Utah and Lamar Odom in CandyLand, there have been some moves over the last few days that altered the fantasy [...]
July 14, 2009
Basketball Stirs While Baseball Slumbers
Two of my least favorite weeks of the year are the NBA All-Star break and Major League All-Star break, respectively. I’m no college sports fan so there is NOTHING else going on for me during those days and I usually don’t get too excited about the All-Star festivities.
With MLBon hiatus on Monday, the NBA at least [...]
July 10, 2009
Sheriff Matrix
A brain-hurting trade of significant proportions came down the pipe on Wednesday when it was announced that the Dallas Mavericks acquired mercurial forward Shawn Marion in a four-team trade that involved the Toronto Raptors, Orlando Magic and Memphis Grizzlies. I believe it went down at the expansion franchise annual summer BBQ, after many plastic red [...]
July 6, 2009
Weekend’s Best Fantasy Analysis: July 3-5, 2009
A quick look at some of the best fantasy basketball analysis from around the web this past weekend:
Closer: Brendan K. at 2nd Round Reach look at some of the offseason moves thusfar and their fantasy impact.
Go-To Guy: Erik at Points in the Paint ponders Jason Kidd’s value.
Second Option: Yahoo!’s Charlie Zegers takes a look at which rookies [...]
July 6, 2009
Fantasy Fireworks
Talk about an eventful holiday weekend. I hit the Jersey shore for four days and come home with a lot of catching up to do as a flurry of moves have altered the landscape since last week’s Pistons shopping spree.
Since most of these moves have been covered in detail throughout the weekend, I’ll just give [...]
July 2, 2009
Detroit Contract City
In the first 24 hours of NBA free agency, the biggest splash was made by the Detroit Pistons, who have reportedly signed both shooting guard Ben Gordon and forward Charlie Villanueva.
This move is hard to analyze in regards to Gordon because it’s difficult to fathom how both he and Richard Hamilton can co-exist. Both need the [...]
