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You aren’t going to find too many elite fantasy basketball assets sitting on an NBA bench. You’re going to find them on a 50’ wide by 94’ long stretch of hardwood, running their shoes tread-bare....
View ArticleJump Ball: Russell Westbrook v Damian Lillard
Piggy-backing off of Slim's (in?)famous "Slim vs. Slim" series of years past, I'm going to be writing a number of articles pitting two players with similar ADPs against one another. The format will be...
View ArticleJump Ball: Kawhi Leonard v Jimmy Butler
Previous "Jump Ball" articles: 9/19 - Russell Westbrook v Damian Lillard TALE OF THE TAPE KAWHI LEONARD JIMMY BUTLER San Antonio Spurs Team Chicago Bulls SG, SF Position (Y! Eligibility) SG, SF 2014...
View ArticleJump Ball: Blake Griffin v Serge Ibaka
Previous "Jump Ball" articles: 9/19 - Russell Westbrook v Damian Lillard 9/26 - Kawhi Leonard v Jimmy Butler TALE OF THE TAPE BLAKE GRIFFIN SERGE IBAKA Los Angeles Clippers Team Oklahoma City Thunder...
View ArticleJump Ball: Andrew Wiggins v Gordon Hayward
Previous "Jump Ball" articles: 9/19 - Russell Westbrook v Damian Lillard 9/26 - Kawhi Leonard v Jimmy Butler 10/2 - Blake Griffin v Serge Ibaka TALE OF THE TAPE ANDREW WIGGINS GORDON HAYWARD Minnesota...
View ArticleJump Ball: Emmanuel Mudiay v D’Angelo Russell
Previous "Jump Ball" articles: 9/19 - Russell Westbrook v Damian Lillard 9/26 - Kawhi Leonard v Jimmy Butler 10/2 - Blake Griffin v Serge Ibaka 10/7 - Andrew Wiggins v Gordon Hayward TALE OF THE TAPE...
View ArticleJump Ball: Jonas Valanciunas v Marcin Gortat
Previous "Jump Ball" articles: 9/19 - Russell Westbrook v Damian Lillard 9/26 - Kawhi Leonard v Jimmy Butler 10/2 - Blake Griffin v Serge Ibaka 10/7 - Andrew Wiggins v Gordon Hayward 10/19 - Emmanuel...
View ArticleThe Bold & The Predictable: 30 Gut Calls For 2015
Pearls don't lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it. (Yep, I just dropped a Chinese proverb, so y'all know this article is about to go next level...) I've always found it fun to...
View ArticleThe Motor City Monster
Monster. Beast. Man-child. Demigod. The list of superlatives that can be applied to Andre Drummond is a long one. The Pistons big man went berserk on Tuesday night with his second straight 20/20 game....
View ArticleMo Williams, Less Problems
Well, that was a bit of a bloodbath. On what should have been a relatively quiet evening in the NBA, there sure wound up being a lot of noise. And not a lot of it was good noise. For a lot of fantasy...
View ArticleCenters Of Attention
How do you decide who is most deserving of the lead between these two stellar performances?: Player A - 25 points, 18 rebounds, 3 steals, 1 block, 10-15 FGs Player B - 22 points, 14 rebounds, 10...
View ArticleHistory At Roaracle
Hoops fans were treated to a pretty entertaining six-game slate on Tuesday night, and those who were able to stay awake into the wee hours of Wednesday morning (for us East coasters anyways), saw...
View ArticleMaking His Marc
Shortly before the tip of the Grizzlies' game in New Orleans on Tuesday night, Memphis beat writer Ronald Tillery reported that coach Dave Joerger "desperately wants to reduce Marc Gasol's minutes."...
View ArticleNBA Basketball > Politics? Debatable
On an unusually quiet Tuesday night in the NBA that saw only four games, the most remarkable item is just how unremarkable everything was. Truth be told, I watched a lot more of the Republican debate...
View ArticleTuesday… More Like Snoozeday, Amirite?
Alright, truth be told I had that article title in my head before the early games even finished up. It looked like it was going to be a yawn-worthy evening of basketball... but then some cool stuff...
View ArticleAll I Want For Christmas Is A Little Offense…and the 7 Ahead
Earlier in the year when the NBA released its schedule for the 2015/2016 season, one of the very first things I did was flip forward to December 25th. I was really stoked to see five games, neatly...
View ArticleDaily Notes Brought To You By NyQuil
Sorry folks, there will be no lengthy lead-in for this edition of the Daily Notes. (And likely very little attempt at clever humor.) I'm a bit under the weather and doing my best to spill any digital...
View ArticleShowdown In Chi-Town
Conventional basketball wisdom suggests that smaller lineups play at a faster pace and typically score more points. That wasn't exactly the case in Chicago on Tuesday night. The Milwaukee Bucks rolled...
View ArticleState Of The Association
As many of you already know (or as my avatar may suggest), I'm a Canadian so I don't really have a dog in the 2016 United States Presidential fight. I do, however, live close to the border and have...
View ArticleKentucky Multicats
The University of Kentucky basketball program was well represented in New Orleans on Tuesday night. Wildcats alums Anthony Davis and Karl-Anthony Towns produced quality multi-category lines for their...
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