Big Ben to Cleveland: LeBron James has a supporting cast?

Categorized as: Author: Nels, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Fantasy Basketball, Oklahoma City Thunder, Trades
Posted on: February 21st, 2008

According to Adrian Wojnarowski, LeBron now has a supporting cast. Yeah! What? Ben Wallace, Joe Smith, Wally Z, and Delonte West suddenly count as a “supporting cast”? I’m sorry, what?

If you’re still reading this instead of picking up Joakim Noah, do that now. Someone in the GMTR Readers’ League actually drafted Joakim. Wow. I was writing him an email to congratulate him until I realized he’d drafted Eddy Curry with the pick right before that one. In an interesting coinkydink, he also has Drew Gooden and Zydrunas Ilgauskas. He is still the Illest Gauskas.

UPDATE: Also, check to see if Boobie (aka Daniel) Gibson is available. Probably want to pick him up too, since there’s no one else to play PG in the land of Cleve. In my haste to post, I didn’t realize that the Boobster had a HIGH ankle sprain. Aka not good. So… follow along below…

Cavs

Big Z probably needs some rest. Ben Wallace will give him that. I would expect Ilguaskas’ numbers to dip slightly. Wallace’s numbers can’t really get any lower… so good luck with that.

Joe Smith and Drew Gooden are pretty much the exact same player at this point. Seriously. Look at their stats. It’s sort of crazy. So, on the Cavs side, Smith will take over Gooden’s role, and probably have the same value. On the Bulls side, Gooden will fill in for Smith (arguably the Bulls best player at this point), and also keep his value. At least until Deng and Gordon start playing real minutes.

UPDATE: I already told you to pick up Daniel Gibson. What else is there really? With Gibson out, I guess Delonte West will be the PG in Cleveland… and that leaves Wally at SG. Really, this helps LeBron how? And do you really want to pick up Wally Szczerbiak or Delonte West? Maybe and maybier. If you need to pick one, go with Wally, at least he can do something. He’ll get you points and threes from the SF position (which is awesome if you’re rollin with a Mid Ball team). Delonte seems to just squander whatever court time he gets.

UPDATED:
PG: Delonte West, Daniel Gibson (INJ), Eric Snow, Damon Jones
SG: Wally Szczerbiak, Devin Brown
SF: LeBron James
PF: Joe Smith, Anderson Varejao (starter?)
C: Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Ben Wallace

Bulls

Pick up Joakim Noah. Did I mention that?

Unfortunately, if Larry Hughes actually plays well, this could mean the end of the Thabo Era. With Deng and Gordon both back, the addition of Larry Hughes means that pretty much every spot from PG to PF has at least 2 players looking for PT. Joakim and Aaron Gray will evidently be holding down the Center spot, but I think they can split the PT pretty well (aka Joakim will get most of it, Gray will get the rest).

Here’s the Bulls:
PG: Hinirch, Duhon (we’re back to normal here)
SG: Ben Gordon, Thabo Sefolosha, Larry Hughes
SF: Luol Deng, Tyrus Thomas, Andres Nocioni
PF: Drew Gooden, Tyrus Thomas, Andres Nocioni
C: Joakim Noah, Drew Gooden

Seattle

They made another deal, so let’s look at the new dept chart…

PG: Earl Watson, Luke Ridnour
SG: Kevin Durant, Brent Barry, Ira Newble
SF: Jeff Green, Damien Wilkins, Adrian Griffin
PF: Chris Wilcox, Nick Collison (soon), Donyell Marshall
C: Johan Petro, Francisco Elson

If you have any of the starters or Nick Collison, you’re good to go. If not, um, yeah, why? I don’t see Newble nor Griffin nor Marshall finding themselves all of sudden in Seattle.

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In other news, Yahoo has revamped their sports pages again to make them EVEN EASIER to navigate. It’s somewhat ridiculous. No wonder Microsoft wants to buy them. They have actual usability people on their teams.

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