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Day 121 of 170: LeBron is younger than Amare

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Categorized as: Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Phoenix Suns
Posted on: February 28th, 2008

LeBron may have become the youngest player to score 10,000 points, but the NBA.com Player Rater did not forgive his 7/24 shooting from the field. Nor his lack of steals and blocks. No sir. 2.87.

Line of the Night: Amare Stoudemire (6.17) only has 7,331 points, but he also has the Line of the Night with 32/14/4 on 11/19 FG and 9/10 FT, not to mention 4 blocks and a steal.

Honorable Mentions: I think we’re going to have a lot of these today, so I’m just going to make a list:

(PTS/REB/AST/STL/BLK)

Brad Miller: 25/13/6/2/1 + 3 threes! (5.53)
Chris Paul: 25/6/15/3/0 + 2 threes (no exclamation point) + 1 turnover! ! ! That’s an Assist2Turnover ration of 15:1!!! (5.44)
Marcus Camby: 12/14/4/2/5 Ho hum. Another day at the office for Camby. (5.33)
Mike Bibby: 25/5/12/1/1 – Guess it just took a sec to get into the swing of things in Atlanta. (5.09)

Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Anthony Carter (4.88) is probably available in some less competitive leagues where people don’t know who he is. Vince Carter’s cousin? I don’t know. He was a perfect 4/4 from the field last night for 12 points, 4 rebounds, and 12 assists. Add in the 4 steals and everyone on Denver is looking like a decent fantasy player at this point. Well, everyone who’s in their 7 man rotation playing more than 20 minutes.

If Carter isn’t available to you, and you have daily roster changes, take a look at Jannero Pargo (4.13). He looks like he’s in for another 2-3 good games if you pick him up right now.

Martell Webster (3.90) had 15/5/2 with 3 steals and 2 threes.

The Biggest Loser: I kind of want to go with LeBron, since he did clock in at #78 last night with that awe-ful shooting. But since I already mentioned him, let’s find someone else to pick on. How about Andrei Kirilenko (1.91)? He played 24 minutes last night, but ended up with only 4 points, 1 rebound, and 2 assists. To his credit, he did have a block, and has been averaging 1.7 blocks per game this season.

The Eddy Curry Watch: Curry (1.92) finished just ahead of Kirilenko last night, because he had a (presumably) career high 2 blocks! Way to go Big Eddy! He also added 0 points on 0/3 shooting, 3 rebounds, and 1 assist. No turnovers, though! And I’m going to assume that in only 16 minutes of PT, he didn’t have enough time to try to take someone off the dribble from outside the three-point line. I bet he totally could have taken Emeka Okafor or Nazr Mohammed for a ride, though. In other Knicks news, Zach Randolph hoisted 2 more three pointers last night.

Other Stuff Like This:

  • The Celtics one goal on defense last night was to not let LeBron James beat them. They were doubling him out past the three point line at times when he had the ball and stepping into the lane and getting slammed as he was driving to the hoop. Painful, but effective.
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