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Archive for July, 2010

Fantasy Basketball Preview: Houston Rockets

After finishing  with a 42-40 regular season record in 2009-2010, what’s next for the Houston Rockets? More to the point, what’s in store for its players as far the wonderful world of Fantasy Basketball is concerned? The long answers will only be truly unraveled by the hard, no B.S. results of the 2010 season. The [...]

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The Chris Paul Saga

Take one insane free agent year. Add in a disgruntled superstar asking for a trade. And the finishing touch is a team that is willing to sit down with said superstar and discuss their options. Yes, you have all the ingredients for the Chris Paul “get me the hell out of New Orleans” saga.* The [...]

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Fantasy Basketball Preview: Memphis Grizzlies

Posted by Patrick on July 23rd, 2010 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball Draft Guide 2010, Memphis Grizzlies, NBA Teams

How to be the Memphis Grizzlies in 5 easy steps: Step 1. Sign your non-all-star small forward (who is young and good, but not great) to a 5-year $82 million contract (the 6th largest of the summer) on the first day of free agency. Step 2. Then refuse to make a $3.7 million qualifying offer [...]

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Fantasy Basketball Preview: Golden State Warriors

Posted by Nels on July 21st, 2010 filed in Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball Draft Guide 2010, Golden State Warriors

You probably already know, but Golden State set a record this summer. The Warriors were sold for $450 million dollars. And while the amount of the deal was in every headline, I think what’s more important to Warriors fans (and to fantasy owners) is that the new owners seem to actually care about the Warriors. [...]

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Fantasy Basketball Preview: Philadelphia 76ers

It’s been tiring. Over the last couple of seasons people have been so poetically referring to the prospects/potential of Elton Brand reviving the Philadelphia 76ers as “The Philadelphia Experiment.” We’ve been there. We’ve done that. Data has come back from the labs and as we all know, the results have not been favorable. Now, as [...]

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Fantasy Basketball Preview: Indiana Pacers

After years of wading around in a sea of mediocrity (or maybe it was just a sea of crap), the Pacers are FINALLY at the point where they can start to turn some of their most onerous contracts in to fresh, young meat. And in fact that is just what they did on August 11th, [...]

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