Empire Building Part I: Know Your Rules (Obvious but Important)

The number one most important thing heading into your fantasy draft – in any sport – is to know the rules. This seems incredibly obvious but it’s also surprising how often owners get this wrong. And yes, I have done it myself.
Sometimes commissioners can throw little wrinkles into the scoring system that can turn conventional [...]

Of Disappearing Wizards and Slumbering Blogs

If you’re a dork like me … and lets face it, you’re reading a fantasy basketball blog so it’s a fair assumption … you’ve probably read The Hobbit at some point in your life. And if you recall, midway through the story the wizard Gandalf just leaves the narrative, only to reappear towards the end [...]

Start Preparing Now….

One of the wondrous things about fantasy sports is that there is really no such thing as TOO much preparation. As a result (and in an effort to redeem my subpar performance at the end of this past season), I’m already working on stuff for the blog relating to next season.
One quick aside: don’t get [...]

I’ve Faded Like the Nets

After a solid start to the blog this season, I have folded like Karl Malone at the free-throw line. As usually happens with things you enjoy, life got in the way: marriage, honeymoon and I’ve spent the last couple months involved in the house-buying process (which is a nightmare, by the way).
But this blog is [...]

Who had 2/17 In the “McGrady’s Done for the Year” Pool?

After hearing numerous conflicting reports over the past few weeks, it was confirmed on Tuesday that Tracy McGrady needs season-ending microfracture surgery on his left knee.
No one act shocked. You all knew the possibilities when you drafted him and saw the writing on the wall when this happened. Not going to spend any time pontificating on McGrady’s [...]

Can We Shoot Him with an AK-47?

Andrei Kirilenko decided on Thursday to have surgery on his right ankle instead of playing through the pain. I miss the good old days when Russians were extremely tough bastards.
But Kirilenko, Anna Kournakova and Maria Sharapova are destroying the image. Vladimir Putin alone is keeping it alive. But I digress….
Kirilenko was having a solid season, [...]

Newsful Wednesday

Is that a word, newsful? As in chock full of news? Well, it is now.
Wednesday is my favorite day of the NBA week, because there is usually a shitload of games. Conversely, I hate Thursday’s. Usually just two games, they start late and sometimes aren’t the best matchups (but usually are). That’s why I always [...]

Anticipating 2009

If you took my advice in my previous post about reflecting on your fantasy teams as the new year approaches, you likely came up with some areas in which your team needs improvement.
Obviously there are countless guys on your league’s waiver wire that are borderline ownable. That’s the case in any league. Each player probably contributes a [...]

Brand-Aid Needed

As if you weren’t already regretting using your first round pick on Elton Brand this season, the big lug went at dislocated his right shoulder in Wednesday night’s victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. This is awful news.
A dislocated shoulder isn’t a season-ending injury, although the results of a postgame MRI are yet to be revealed. The best-case scenario [...]

Random Blog Update

Blogging is hard.
Well, it’s not so much hard to sit here in type. That’s much easier than say, fighting in a karate tournament, skateboarding into a canyon or securing the Iraqi border.
And I’ve never found it hard to actually write. It actually comes pretty natural to me.
But it’s hard to a devise a clear vision/voice/approach [...]

Manter a Fé

For the non-Brazilian/Portuguese among you (and I’m wholly assuming that is 100%), the title of this post translates into “Keep the Faith”*.
It seems to fit appropriately for one of the most crisis-causing players of the early season, one Mr. Leandro Barbosa. Barbosa’s play over the first couple weeks was horribly disconcerting but I must admit [...]

Sacramento Kings 2008-09 Fantasy Preview

All previews follow the same format. I’ll be going in depth only on the players worth owning in a standard 12-team league, followed by players who you might consider as injury handcuffs/deep sleepers. As always, it starts with the most valuable player on the team:
 
Kevin Martin (SG)
Helps: Points, 3-pointers, FT%, Steals
With Mike Bibby in Atlanta [...]

Tracy McGrady = Eight Belles?

Shocking news out of Houston. On Media Day (MEDIA DAY!!!!), Tracy McGrady is already not feeling too well.  What a surprise. I’ll obviously get more into this in the Rockets’ team preview, but the guy has played in a “full season” just once in the last five seasons, missing 81 games in that span.
How long [...]

Yahoo! Fantasy Basketball Registration is Now Open

It’s a beautiful thing.

Say It Ain’t So, Agent Zero

Word has come down that Gilbert Arenas will miss at least the first month of the season after having a “procedure”  on the same knee that kept him sidelined for all but 13 games last season. In case you’re counting, it’s his third knee operation. Bad news.
The huge contract Arenas received from the Wizards in [...]

Add to your lexicon: Drafterglow

Great post over at Basketbawful about one of the universal feelings in all of fantasy sports. I shall be using this term numerous times after basketball drafts, I am sure.

Long, cold September

Now that the NFL season (and the fantasy football season, which is far less interesting than basketball or baseball in my opinion) has started, it seems like there is too much time until basketball starts.
Gradually over the next seven weeks or so, the posts will be coming faster and more frequently. As of now, I’ve [...]

Under Construction

This blog is currently undergoing its initial construction and will be ready to launch by late August … a full two months before the NBA/Fantasy basketball season begins. Plenty of rankings/projections and analysis to come!