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Unlike regular season NBA awards in which people feel the need to argue incessantly about a player’s “intangibles” and “ability to win games” and “ability to wear a smoking 5 o’clock shadow“, fantasy basketball awards are all about the stats and hence, are really, really lame. But they are easy to write, so I was about to post my fantasy awards for the year, until I read the 2007 NBA Fantasy Basketball Awards on Fantapedia by Philthy. His picks for MVP, Most Improved Player, and Rookie of the Year look remarkably like mine, so I’ll just point you in that direction if your interested in such things.
Instead, I thought it might be interesting to announce some of the lesser known fantasy basketball awards:
The “Easymarksman Award” for best percentages
Dirk Nowitzki: He may not be the MVP, but as evidenced in game 5 against the Warriors, the boy can shoot. 50% this season from the floor is nice, but it’s the 90% from the line (with over 7 attempts a game) that pushes him over the top.
Also good: Yao Ming, David Lee, Steve Nash
The “Jeff Foster Award” for most useless waste of minutes on an NBA team goes to…
Jeff Foster: Lifetime achievement award
Coming on strong: Adam Morrison, Trenton Hassell, Gary Payton
The “Bruce Bowen Award” for best player whose abilities don’t transfer to fantasy at all
Anderson Varejao: He played in 81 games for the Cavs, averaging 24 minutes, 6.7 rebounds, 1 steal, 0.6 blocks, and some big time hustle. The offense wasn’t really there for Varejao (7 pts/game) and, as a result, he ended up ranked 196 on the GMTR player rater.
The “Nels/Keith Van Horn Award” for best mid-ball player
Andre Iguodala: 18 pts, 5.7 rebounds, 5.7 assists, and 2 steals a game. Now that is a guy you can build your mid-ball team around.
The “Shaun Livingston Award” for most painful injury (for fantasy teams)
Dwyane Wade
Also painful: Gilbert Arenas
The “Grant Hill Award” for quickly dwindling expectations
Andrei Kirilenko: What round does he go next year?
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