Bouncing around the league – some updates

Categorized as: Fantasy Basketball
Posted on: March 8th, 2005

Antawn Jamison will have his NBA-leading consecutive games streak snapped at 386 tonight when he sits out against the New York Knicks with tendinitis in his right knee. Even though the Wizards’ captain was given no timetable for his return, he sounded upbeat.

Fantasy Impact: K-Bup

“No timetable” is not a good thing. Especially not for fantasy owners… Tendinitis is tough. It just takes time and rest. He did say in a statement he’ll be using “this week” to rest and rehabilitate… we’ll see…

Next up:

Nuggets center Marcus Camby felt joy and pain Monday.

Camby was selected the Western Conference player of the week for games Feb. 28 through Sunday, during which he averaged 14 points, 15.7 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 4.3 blocked shots. He recorded three double-doubles last week during the Nuggets’ 3-0 stretch.

But Camby missed Monday’s game against Portland with a strained right hamstring and is day to day.

“It’s a great honor,” Camby said. “I think of it more as a team honor than as an individual honor. My teammates have been playing well, as well as myself. Without them, I wouldn’t be able to get that award.”

Camby said his injury began to bother him last week, but added that four days off before his team’s next game should help and he expects to play Saturday against San Antonio.

Fantasy Impact: Starkos

With the four days off, Mr. Glass will hopefully make a return to form after having been playing so well. He’s day-to-day, but for you weekly people, you can probably have him in your lineup for next week. As always with Camby, though, keep an out. He could suffer another injury at any moment (I mean, I guess you could say the same about anyone in the league, but the probability is always a lot higher for MC deuce-trey).

PS: My new Injury Impact Classification System goes like this:

• PA-1: Major injury that will require a trip to the IL. Player will be out for several weeks.
• K-Bup: Major injury but should take no more than a couple weeks to heal.
• Starkos: Minor injury; player should be back within the week.

If you’re wondering where that came from, you’re probably not alone. Also, at this point in the season, if you see a PA-1, it’s probably a good time to click the Drop link.

Count it.

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