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Archive for February, 2009

Fantasy Trade Implications: Everyone Wants this Cap Space Guy

The trades are coming fast now. In one that has already been around for a day, the Hornets moved Tyson Chandler to the OKC for cap space in the name of Chris Wilcox and Joe Smith. Fantasy wise, this has got to hurt the value of Nick Collison and Nenad Krstic (whatever value he did [...]

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Carnival of the NBA #63: Stress Relief

Posted by Nels on February 18th, 2009 filed in Author: Nels, Boom Roasted, Carnivals, Fantasy Basketball

Scott at Waiting For Next Year is hosting the Boom, Roasted Edition of the Carnival. GMTR got two links in the Carnival compared to just one for everyone else. Boom, roasted.

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Day 114 of 170: Dwight Howard Is Pissed He Didn't Win The Dunk Contest

Posted by Nels on February 18th, 2009 filed in Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Orlando Magic

Line of the Night: Dwight Howard (1.56) sought revenge for his upset in the dunk contest by throwing in 45 points and grabbing 19 rebounds against the Bobcats. He also had 8 blocks and after every one of them was noted to have said “Where’s your dunk contest now bitch??” He shot 23 field goals [...]

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Day 113 of 170: Fantasy Ratings for the All-Star Game

Posted by Patrick on February 17th, 2009 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, NBA All-Star Weekend, NBA Basketball

Upon request, here is the rundown for the NBA All-Star game, GMTR style. Since Basketball Monster doesn’t spit out the game scores for the all-star game, I had to break out my reverse engineering skills to recreate the BM scores using only the info I had (as well as a paperclip, some dental floss, and [...]

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Day 112 of 170: The Suns Set In The West, Right?

Posted by Nels on February 16th, 2009 filed in Author: Nels, Carnivals, NBA All-Star Weekend

I must admit, I am little at a loss for what to do without my daily template… So, I decided to go through my Google Reader and throw together the links that I liked. Seems everyone loves them some Shaq and the Jabbawockeez. http://www.hoopsfantasy.com/kobe-and-shaq-co-mvps-in-all-star-game-video/ Kelly Dwyer has the insightful insightfulness when it comes to the [...]

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Day 111 of 170: Nate Robinson is Your Dunk Champion

Posted by Patrick on February 15th, 2009 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball

Night two of all star weekend is over, and just what I wanted to see, Nate Robinson wins the dunk competition (while Daequan Cook ousted Jason Kapono for in the Three-Point Shootout and Derrick Rose has mad skillz). Now props to Robinson for a very creative KryptoNate dunk to win this thing (the green ball [...]

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