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Day 142 of 170: It’s March and it’s Madness

Posted by Patrick on March 18th, 2010 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Golden State Warriors, Injuries

Line of the Night/Waiver Wire Line of the Night : Anthony Tolliver (1.41) is currently owned in 21% of fantasy leagues. That number should get a boost as Tolliver finished with 30 points for the Warriors, going 4-8 from three with 6 rebounds and 4 steals. If you’re looking for consistency, Tolliver ain’t your guy, [...]

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Day 138 of 170: We Like Them Young: The Stephen Curry Edition

Posted by Patrick on March 14th, 2010 filed in Author: Patrick, Ballin Outta Control, Fantasy Basketball

Line of the Night: Stephen Curry (1.79). On a night where Luis Scola (1.13) dropped 44 points on 20-25 shooting against the Nets, Curry’s fantasy line was still miles ahead of everyone else. Curry scored a not too shabby 35 points himself, going 5-7 from three with 6 boards, 10 assists and 4 steals as [...]

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Day 133 of 170: Where Shots are Falling and Manu is Smiling

Posted by Patrick on March 9th, 2010 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Free Agency, Injuries, Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs

Line of the Night: Despite the season high 38 points for Manu Ginobili (1.39), the hurting Spurs lost a close game to the more hurting Cavs, 97-95. In additional to the great scoring game, Ginobili had 7 rebounds, 5 assists and was 7-11 from three. With Tony Parker expected to miss the next 6 weeks [...]

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Day 130 of 170: The Rodney Stuckey Scare

Posted by Patrick on March 6th, 2010 filed in Author: Patrick, Ballin Outta Control, Fantasy Basketball, Injuries

Line of the Night: Lebron James (1.66). Who did you think it was going to be? LeBron dropped 40 in a Cavs win over the Pistons, adding 13 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals, 3 threes and 2 blocks. And in last night’s game, LeBron already became the Cavs franchise leader in minutes played, passing Zydrunas [...]

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JaVale McGee getting challenged for minutes

Posted by Erik on February 25th, 2010 filed in Author: Erik, Fantasy Basketball, Trades, Washington Wizards

When the Washington Wizards shipped off its starting frontcourt (Brendan Haywood and Antawn Jamison), in separate transactions, we knew that this would open doors for both Andray Blatche and JaVale McGee. I quickly pulled the trigger and grabbed McGee in around three of my yahoo leagues.
Blatche has been stellar thus far, and is even on [...]

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Josh Howard Out For Season With Torn ACL

Posted by Nels on February 24th, 2010 filed in Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Injuries, Player News, Washington Wizards

This is what I get for checking my RSS feeds after writing my post.
I’ve seen it a few places, Josh Howard will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL. Not sure if this is a result of that news spreading quickly, but Howard’s ownership is down to 54%.
Andray Blatche is already [...]

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