Trade Reaction: Marion to Toronto, O’Neal to Miami
Posted by Brandon Haraway Categories: Trades, Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat
In a deal expected to be finalized Friday afternoon, the Miami Heat traded Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks to the Toronto Raptors for Jermaine O’Neal and Jamario Moon.
Has a guy ever been traded hours after hitting a game-winner? Well he has now.
Anyways, this trade better suits the Heat’s system, and fulfills Pat Riley’s desire for a big. But for Toronto, it makes them a legitimate playoff team. At the moment, they are second-to-last in the East, but only four games out of a playoff spot. This gives them a trio of Jose Calderon, Marion, and Chris Bosh that might be capable of going on a tear and making some noise.
As far as fantasy goes, one has to assume Marion’s numbers go up. We’ll likely see Bosh play some center and Marion play at the four, because behind O’Neal, was Jake Voskuhl on the depth chart. Winners here are Marion, Jason Kapono, and Joey Graham. They’ll be picking up Moon’s minutes plus some of the minutes created by the shifting around of Bosh to center.
On the Miami side, not much should change. They basically had no center, so this helps there. Michael Beasley might get some more minutes, and it remains to be seen if Moon starts. If not, Beasley would likely get the nod. This effectively kills any value that Jamaal Magloire and Joel Anthony had in deep leagues.
I’m predicting some noise made by Toronto…
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Injury Bug Bites, And It Hurts
Posted by Brandon Haraway Categories: Injuries, Waiver Pick Ups, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors, Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic, New Orleans Hornets, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Lakers
It’s that time of year again! No, not Single’s Awareness Day. No, not the All-Star Break. It’s that magical time that inevitable occurs every year when seemingly every relevant baller gets hurt. It’s here in full effect, and let me tell ya, it sucks. Here we go again…
Elton Brand
This just broke this afternoon. This morning, it was a day-to-day sprained shoulder. Now, it’s season-ending surgery. Sweeeeet. Yesterday ESPN reported that an MRI showed it was healing, too. So who steps up? Reggie Evans baby. He’s long been a favorite of mine in fantasy, and with even 25 minutes we could see double digit rebounds often. Go grab him now before everyone else catches on. Marreese Speights should get a little extra burn too, and could be worth a look if you’re desperate. Brand is probably safe to cut, but it might be smart to wait another day or two to make sure this is all definite.
Catch the rest of the recent injuries after the jump!
The Fig Cap: Yeah… how’s that working out for ya?
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Early H2H MVPs?
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: H2H, Site Announcements, Talent
Yahoo leagues give fantasy GMs access to something they call “MVPs”; check it out if you ever have a chance. This tool looks at how many times a player makes up part of a roster in the top 500 public leagues. They have separate analyses for rotisserie and head-to-head leagues. Since our experts league is h2h, the focus is on that here.
Not surprisingly, a consensus top four pick headlines the list. Consider it an early Christmas if you are currently riding high with Amare Stoudemire packing lots of punch to your team. Interestingly, among the top 500 teams in public h2h leagues, Amare can be found on only 21.0% of them which translates into one in every five teams. According to “MVPs” here is a team of the players most connected to success after two weeks of play.
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Dropping Dimes Mock Draft - Round 4, Pick 9: Mo Williams
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: H2H, Roto, Site Features, Talent, Cleveland Cavaliers
With two forwards and a center already supporting this roster, it was time to address the guard position. The good part about the current make-up of this team is that Rashard Lewis and Antawn Jamison can rack up small-ball statistics, so you are not limited in where you can go with the fourth round pick.
With that said, the tier of Chauncey Billups and Jose Calderon are off of the board. With there being a slew of other options that may be a bit to risky to take at this slot, I have no problems “settling” for…
Mo Williams, PG, Cleveland Cavaliers
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Dropping Dimes Mock Draft: Round 4, Pick 5 - Michael Redd
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Central Division, Milwaukee Bucks, H2H, Site Features, Talent
The talent pool must not have gone shallow yet if 20 point-per-game Olympians remain available in the fourth round. Adding this player to a team that has Dirk Nowitzki would have made for very sound strategy, but Dirk’s team picks next. On this particular team, he fills a glaring need.
Round 4, Pick 5: Michael Redd, SG/SF, Milwaukee Bucks
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Dropping Dimes Mock Draft: Round 3, Pick 8 - Jose Calderon
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, Toronto Raptors, Disses, Editorial, H2H, Site Features
Imagine Team USA starring LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and company posing for a picture like this. David Stern would have been on the next plane to China putting out fires and doing interview after interview insisting that the NBA loved its international flavor and that this type of stuff was not condoned at all. Fines probably would have been levied, and big companies might have stayed away from the Team USA stars i.e. it might have been a while before we saw Dwyane Wade and Charles Barkley hawking cell phones again.
It hurts a little extra because the guy picked here plays for my home team, the team I cheer for. My family comes from a Chinese background, and both the photo and the subsequent comments from this man have left a bad taste in my mouth. I even said, “Bring back T. J. Ford” when it first happened. Just as a fan, Jose, this is not the media’s fault, you and your team mates should not have done it, should not have caved if you were being goaded into it and you should have said sorry because you came off as ignorant instead of remorseful.
The moral of the story? Sometimes you have to put aside your feelings about a player and just look at the numbers.
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Injury Update: Jose Calderon Tears Thigh
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Atlantic Division, Toronto Raptors, H2H, Injuries, News, Roto, Talent
And you all wonder why I despise any sort of extra curricular basketball…
From the Toronto Star:
Jose Calderon will not play for Spain today in the Olympic men’s basketball semifinals.
The Raptor point guard has what’s being called a partial tear of the adductor muscle, an injury revealed after an MRI here on Thursday.
Toronto officials are following up with Spanish doctors to discover the severity of the injury, treatment options and a prognosis.
Obviously, there is plenty of time for Calderon to heal up. But with the Raps trading away TJ Ford, this is something that the team can ill afford. Don’t move him too far down your rankings quite yet, but Toronto’s assist machine will definitely be on the shelf for a few weeks.
Dropping Dimes Two-on-Two Tourney: Round 1, Games 13 and 14
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Site Features
Sorry the posts have been a bit slow over the past couple of weeks. I’m back in the game now. Thanks to Sarge for keeping things going a bit. I’ll post our next two games today, and then will launch the last two games of our first round on Sunday, our usual day for posting the match-ups.
Let’s try to set things up before the Lakers and Spurs tip off for Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals!
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Props to the Ironmen
The summer blockbuster season is almost upon us. NBA fans have already had a few blockbuster games in the playoffs; that double-overtime game between San Antonio and Phoenix was incredible.
In this retrospective article, we praise the players that played every single game, a luxury all fantasy owners know is few and far between. There are quite a few surprises on this list.
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Beyond the Arc: Week 17
Posted by Brandon Haraway Categories: Disses, Editorial, H2H, Roto, Sleepers, Waiver Pick Ups
Well, the week is over, so hopefully everyone won their matchups. Short weeks can either be a good pick-me-up if you need some wins, or a very bad ordeal if you have a good team that lost to an inferior one due to games played.
Let me preface this All-Star edition by saying I truly hope The Big Easy pulls this off. It’s probably going to be a big factor in whether basketball stays in New Orleans. Sadly, with the attendance figures down there, it’s looking like a negative. But I think if they can pull off a great All-Star Weekend, that may change. One can only hope.
The Fig Cap: The hometown All-Star came up short in the three-point shootout, but didn’t the rest of the week.
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