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Some final prepping

Posted by Nels on October 20th, 2005 filed in Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide 2005

If you haven’t had your draft yet… you’re in luck! Here’s some gems dropped by those other guys at those other fantasy NBA blogs. There’s a good collection of 5 of them. What to make of the Suns at Drop the Dime Some advice on what to look for on the Waiver Wire at EasyMarksman [...]

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NBA.com is getting all up in the fantasy grille

Posted by Nels on October 19th, 2005 filed in Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide 2005, Sleepers

Sortable Stats. Haven’t had time to look at this. Not sure if it’s going to be free forever, or locked away behind the Iron Curtain of Money after the NBA.com’s two week trial is over. Overrated and Underrated players. I agree with pretty much everything here, except this: I find that people don’t like to [...]

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NBA Source: 5 on Five

And since I haven’t posted anything of fantasy relevance lately… let me just link to some other NBA blog that might be of use. NBA Source: 5 Fascinating Match-Ups *Note: Since nobody gives a crap about preseason games, let’s look at some significant positional battles going on. 1. Juwan Howard vs Stromile Swift – Houston’s [...]

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Suns' Stoudemire out four months after surgery

Posted by Nels on October 11th, 2005 filed in Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide 2005, Injuries, Phoenix Suns

ESPN.com – NBA – Suns’ Stoudemire out four months after surgery The Phoenix Suns will be without All-Star forward Amare Stoudemire for about four months after he underwent microfracture surgery to repair damage to his injured left knee on Tuesday. The injury turned out to be far worse than the Suns had hoped when they [...]

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Amare's knee might need surgery

Posted by Nels on October 8th, 2005 filed in Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide 2005, Injuries, Phoenix Suns

I almost feel like I should be in a quiet period since my draft starts on Monday (it feels like an IPO or something…), but this is too important to pass up. Drop the Dime has some news about Amare’s knee. In a story that caught most fantasy owners completely off guard, it was reported [...]

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Small-ball vs. Big-ball

Posted by Nels on October 6th, 2005 filed in Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide 2005

It wasn’t that I learned this lesson the hard way… it was more that I fought the law, and the law won. As such, I feel an important part of Draft Guide 2005 is to explain the difference and thereby the results of, picking a small-ball versus a big-ball fantasy basketball team. The following explanation [...]

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