Archive for the 'San Antonio Spurs' Category

Day 124 of 124: Anybody Home?

When it’s the morning after the last day of regular season basketball, and the stats aren’t loading, and everyone’s rested their main guys last night anyway, and I haven’t gotten together with Patrick and Erik for our End of Year Awards yet… all I’m left with is a playoff preview… If it’s interesting to me, [...]

Day 14 of 124: Where Josh Smith Has a Game

Line of the Night: Josh Smith (3.93 WARP) dominated Carlos Boozer the Bulls on his way to 25 points (on 11-17 shooting), with 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals, and 6 blocks. That stat stuffing line not only dominated the fantasy competition last night, but I believe we officially have a new best fantasy line [...]

Day 9 of 124: One Tough Break

Yesterday’s biggest fantasy news is the… Injury of the Night: Manu Ginobili (currently the seventh ranked player on the GMTR player rater) broke a bone in his left hand during the Spurs game on Monday and is expected to miss the next 4-6 weeks with the injury. That’s one big nasty ass pill for Manu [...]

Day 154 of 170: All That Jazz

Line of the Night: No, the LotN doesn’t go to Melo, who willed the Knicks to their first win in seven games in OT against the Magic. Rather, it goes to a guy who gets 0.01% of the attention Melo has this year. Thaddeus Young (1.72) scored 21 points for the Sixers in less than [...]

Day 88 of 170: Bionic Commandos

Line of the Night: The best part about the Spurs is that even though they play a slow game at only 93 possessions per, they can pick up the pace when they play teams like the Knicks (97) and still come away with the W. Tim Duncan (2.57) worked that fast pace for 21 points, [...]