One milestone deserves another. One night after Kemba Walker joined Stephen Jackson and Boris Diaw in being the third rookie to achieve an elusive triple-double, Kobe Bryant surpasses Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the most career field goals for the Lakers. Bryant is now also on track this season (91 points behind) to surpass Shaquille O’Neal who [...]
Read More..>>Line of the Night: It has been one wild ride this year for Tyreke Evans (2.57 WARP). Horrible shooting performances and single-digit scoring games followed by games like this against the Jazz: 31 points, 6 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals. Evans’ owners would surely appreciate a little more consistency from Evans this season, but [...]
Read More..>>Because everyone played like they were on national TV last night. (Okay, not everyone, but look at the numbers below) Line of the Night: I tried to tell people (probably a bit too gently) to hang on to Dorell Wright (3.18). Wright lit it up with 23 points (6 threes), 9 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 [...]
Read More..>>First time I can recall this season where that’s happened (the two game thing, not the thing down there with Gasol and Griffin, though maybe that too) The nice thing about only 2 games is that I can actually get this post done before I have to go work so I don’t have to work [...]
Read More..>>Line of the Night: Anyone who listens to the podcast knows that I went all in on Stephen Curry (3.58 WARP) this year in my personal leagues. Well, I couldn’t be happier this morning thanks to a season-high 32 points from Curry, who shot 12-19 from the field and added 6 threes, 6 rebounds, 7 [...]
Read More..>>Using GMTR’s Player Rater, here are the Top 20 small forwards for fantasy basketball from December 25, 2011 to January 25, 2012. These rankings are based on competition using nine categories (PTS, REB, AST, STL, BLK. FG%, FT%, TO), for Head-to-Head leagues. LeBron James (1.35) – Everyone predicted Durant to be the best player, but [...]
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