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Basketball and Other Unrelatedness is a great blog, and has a pretty awesome team in the Hoops Addict league that was drafted just about a week ago, Saturday.
I played it a little safe and went with Jason Richardson and Michael Redd as my first two picks. In a league wtih 24 teams, you don’t want to waste your first round pick (I was picking at number 18). Of course, I didn’t want to waste my 2nd round pick either (at #31), so I picked guys that have been fairly healthy and that I felt would continue on to play at least 70 games this season. I was hoping (certainly unrealistically) that Allen Iverson would drop to 18 since he was actually the #2 player last season using this league’s scoring system.
I was able to pick up Brevin Knight, who is actually very highly rated using our scoring system (#24 last season) in the 3rd round (#66). I reached just a little for Chris Kaman, but I needed a Center and going for #85 at #79 is not what I really that much of a reach. With #113 I scooped up the #51 ranked player from last year, Luke Ridnour. Another couple steals with Raja Bell at #127 (ranked #101), then PJ Brown (Go Bulls!) at #166 (ranked #136) rounded out my starting lineup. At least we’re only starting 7 players. That was the one mercy provided in a 24 team league.
After my lineup was set, I put it on autopick and got Keith Bogans, Martell Webster and Rodney Carney. I’m praying Kaman doesn’t get hurt since PJ Brown is my only backup at Center. Yes, I’ll camping out in the free agent pool this weekend.
