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Archive for June, 2009

Fantasy Hall of Fame Vote: Class of 2008

Posted by Patrick on June 30th, 2009 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Hall of Fame

Thanks to some good advice, we are switching up the format of the fantasy HOF vote to more closely match that of the real HOF. For comparison purposes, it makes more sense to vote on a single class all at once (and makes my life easier as well). No worries though, the two individual votes [...]

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Turns Out They Don’t Make 7’6’’ People for a Reason: Yao Ming Could Miss 2009-10 Season

Posted by Patrick on June 29th, 2009 filed in Author: Patrick, Houston Rockets, Injuries, Player News

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Timing, as they say, is everything. Going into the start of the 2008-09 season, we here at GMTR were pretty damn low on Yao Ming. He was a 7’6’’ monster with a history of foot problems: the man had averaged a mere 53 games a season over the previous [...]

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Carnival Of The NBA #65

Posted by Patrick on June 29th, 2009 filed in Carnivals

Carnival of the NBA #65 is up over at Full Court Pest. In addition to some sweet NBA links (the Sports Agent Blog is infinitely more fascinating than the words “Sports Agent Blog” would have you believe) see the Pest expose the Bill Simmons as a Twitter plagiarist.

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An NBA Draft Recap: Links Style

Posted by Patrick on June 26th, 2009 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, NBA Basketball, NBA Draft

I almost feel like a heretic for saying this, but I’m actually not a big fan of the NBA draft. At least the television watching part of it where guys I don’t really know get drafted at a glacial once-every-fifteen minutes pace for 4 hours so that I can catch a funny looking outfit or [...]

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Introducing Barkley’s Mouth

Posted by Patrick on June 25th, 2009 filed in Uncategorized

There is a new kid on the block and this one is loud, brash and has the balls the size of Sam Cassell. Oh, did I mention he’s wickedly funny too? Our friend Dennis Velasco has assembled a crack staff of writers for a new blog aptly titled Barkey’s Mouth. If there is any site [...]

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Fantasy Hall of Fame Vote: Shareef Abdur-Rahim

Posted by Patrick on June 24th, 2009 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Hall of Fame

The Vitals Years Played: 12 Career Stat Line (pts/reb/ast/stl/blk/fg%/ft%) : 18.1 / 7.5 / 2.5 / 1.0 / 0.7 / 47% / 81% Career Value Over Fantasy Replacement Player (VOFRP): 60.3 Career VOFRP (Game Adjusted): 58.1 Highest Fantasy Rank in a Season: 11th (1998-99). Highest Fantasy Rank in a Season (on the All-Time list): 533 [...]

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