While will make fun of in emails to other basketbloggers, I will refrain from such behavior and list 5 blogs that have nothing to do with basketball. Except to say that . Interesting that the BlogDay page doesn t mention the reason that 08/31 (or 31 08) was chosen as blog day.
1. - Video games are awesome, but the comics on Penny Arcade are awesomer.
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- Inspiration and useful advice for anyone working for the man.
4. - Where I get my Sox news.
5. - Had to include a tech blog. Jon is money.
I would think that certain people would need to return to work eventually, but perhaps the case is that those people have found gainful employment in a place that is not Chicago, and said gainful employment is already demanding so much of their time as to make it impossible to email former friends and lovers with updates as to their whereabouts and alive vs. dead status.
That said, I may have to actually write some Team Previews myself.
Which I am certainly looking forward to, after having only had the chance to do one so far this summer.
In the mean time, check out this for your fantasy fix.
And .
Or, I guess, just a truckload of shoes rather than a whole so-called line. I found out about that from my new second-favorite blog SunsGossip, who report that Starbosa (as he is evidently known) is . If you re not going to click on that link, let me just say there is a hot picture of one of the Suns cheerleaders wearing a prototype of Leandro s shoes.
And in case you d forgotten who Travis Outlaw was, . I believe the logical conclusion to draw from the article is that Outlaw will soon be traded for a solid, but aging, player, and then become an All-Star in the 07-08 season. As much as I hate slacking during the summer, I have been remiss in posting links to the Carnivals.
Well, just one really, since the newest one just went up. Before that though, (and I do believe I ve seen them all). Didn t hurt that Rachel was featured as the number 4 link.
I m sure she appreciates being linked to Wes Cox. Seriously better than that? No.
is up at the fairly new Bench Renaldo. It s another blog from the Kanye West look-alike from Canada who brought you (which is also worth reading). I appreciate his more straightforward-not-messing-around-quite-as-much style.
Through Mutoni s Carnival, I checked out a fairly decent post on . No, I could not resist clicking on that link. A little bit heavy on the use of the strikethrough.
I d say that strikethrough has jumped the shark, but, as YAYSports NBA knows - I d link but, at the time of this post, they ve exceeded their bandwidth - jumped the shark has jumped the shark. Not sure where that leaves us Anyway, ultra-compound sentences aside, I found another - there aren t many that I m aware of - . I bet Rachel could probably write a blog about the lig - as it will soon be called in official marketing collateral - if she were only a little bit more concerned with the sport itself and a little less concerned with the players wes cox.
Jason Kidd – Chris Webber, Amare Stoudemire, Rashad McCants, Allan Houston, Penny Hardaway, Zach Randolph, Jamal Mashburn, Kenyon Martin… they’re all pussies. Anyone who takes more than 5 months to return from microfracture knee surgery should grow a set and follow the way of the master - Jason Kidd. 8.
4 assists, 7.3 rebounds, 1.7 threes, and 1.
9 steals last season – that’s at least second round talent – and he put those numbers up almost directly after walking out of surgery. Kidd will be as good if not better again this year.
Richard Jefferson – The “ ” has him ranked at 44.
Last year, coming that big injury year in 2004, he finished up the year at 34. I think a lot of people downgrade him because he and his game are boring as hell, and let’s be honest, we all look for players we like and excite us to some extent. But, he’s definitely a buy because however boring his game is, it’s also consistently good.
Nenad Krstic – I could care less that he’s playing well in the world championships… What really matters are two things: (1) he’s a center and (2) his per game stats over March and April 2006 work out to 15.2/8/1.4 with 0.
8 blocks. Those numbers are slightly above what he did for the entire season last year and I see that kind of slight improvement for Krstic in 2006/2007. Just don’t expect any kind of breakout season.
He is however, inching his way into being a solid contributor to your fantasy team, C eligibility or not.
Vince Carter – I want everyone to check back here in June of 2007. My prediction for Carter is 24/6/4.
5/1.2/0.6.
I guarantee that 6 out of 10 times, I’m right every time.
Everyone else who the Nets will throw out there for 10 to 20 minutes a game. Especially:
Jason Collins – When you start and play 27 minutes and score 3.
6 points and grab 4.8 rebounds a game, that’s bad. In 2004/2005, playing 32 minutes a game, he arguably sucked even more.
Marcus Williams Eddie House – It’ll be real tight for minutes behind Kidd (37 min/gm) and Carter (37 min/gm). Although if you own one of the aforementioned all stars and have a large bench, it might be worthwhile to stash either of these guys in case of an injury… if you have a REALLY large bench.
Clifford Robinson Josh Boone – They’ll get more minutes than Williams and House, but likely play worse when they’re out there.
The end result won’t be worth very much.
The Nets win 45 to 50 games and depart from the 2007 NBA playoffs in the second round again. Whoo-hoo, that s exciting!
Maybe they’ll get some additional depth while the big three are still in their primes.
So, that leaves me with just 2 links for you:
(at least in the US). Since D-Wade was there last year and had a season worthy of our #7 ranking, perhaps things are looking up for T-Mac
I guess I can post this as a comment to the Boston Celtics Fantasy Preview, but I m not sure if anyone besides me is actually reading the .
With all due respect to Al Harrington, , it’s been a pretty slow August in terms of big name player movement. I was waiting for all the moves and suspense to build before reviewing the fantasy implications of all the recent transactions… and then Nels beat me to the punch with . Relish in it while you can Nels, because that sweet taste of victory will be short-lived…
Allow me to sum up the remaining dregs, starting with the next “biggest” move over the past few weeks: .
And those moans are my quickly becoming hopelessly outdated. On the plus side, you now don’t have to worry about the possibility of having to draft Aleksandar Pavlovic. Everyone short of Pavlovic’s immediate family is happy about that development.
Other news that stands on the fringe of relevancy: . Take a look at his split stats from last year and I think you’ll see the importance of that move to Wilcox and fantasy owners in deepish leagues. Also, number two pick in the 2006 draft, LaMarcus Aldridge, .
I’ll catch up with you in 2007, LaMarcus. And, to my surprise, in-between launching rockets into Israel,
Top 7 Moves That You Might Have Missed That Will Make Absolutely No Difference to Any Fantasy League Whatsoever on Earth.
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. A nice story but a long, long, shot.
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. I imagine that if Julio Franco and Snoop Dogg found a way to have an illegitimate love child, it’s name would be Clifford.
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I will refrain from the obvious kidney jokes. I am a better man than that.
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and immediately declares himself the missing piece of the championship puzzle. He also promises to teach that Lebron kid a little something called “hustle”.
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How will they cope?
Al Harrington, as we all now know, is .
Yes, Mr.
Harrington is correct. Too bad I was really hoping for something more interesting to write about. Oh well.
Can t win em all.
First off, there goes the emergence of Danny Granger. Harrington should easily dominate the SF position in Indy.
It also means that Shawne Williams probably won t see a lot court time. The trade also opens up the possibility of running Jermaine O Neal at Center with Harrington at PF, Stephen Jackson at SF, and then Marquis Daniels or Sarunus Jazzy-vicious at the SG with Tinsley at PG. I think O Neal and Jackson should be able to keep up their averages from last season, but since Harrington will be the 3rd option, it may be difficult for him to get up into the 18-19 point range again.
S-Jax isn t a great rebounder, but Jermaine and J-Fos will soak up a lot of the rebounds out there. Harrington will probably be down a rebound or two next season.
I d like to think the impact on the Hawks is more interesting, but it s really not.
The people filling Harrington s position are Josh Childress, Marvin Williams, and Josh Smith. That was pretty obvious, right? They re all pretty even, so you can estimate that they ll all go from 9-11 points to 13-15 points.
I don t think Joe Johnson can really get more than he had last season. He ll still be the number one option, but he already had that going for him. And I d really like to say that he s going to be fatigued from playing in the World Championships, but since SLAMOnline is on the watch for someone to say something about that, I ll refrain.
Overall, Marvin Williams will probably see the biggest gain, since he played the least minutes last season, he s got the most room for improvement. Childress and Smith can t really get more than about 4-5 more minutes with which to boost their stats, but Williams could probably get another 6-10.
One thing I don t know is who s going to rebound for the Hawks now.
I guess you ll have to give some of Harrington s rebounds to Shelden Williams, but after his Summer League showing, nothing about him is certain.
So, make sure to move M-Will up on your Big Board. Everyone else you can just kind of eyeball at draft time.
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