Articles – Fantasy Basketball

That Drew Sure is Gooden!

Drew Gooden is like a cockroach. Just when you think his career is over, he resurrects in the Bucks frontcourt. Then he injures his wrist…

The Humphries Dance Is Your Chance To Do The Humph

There were a few notable headlines out of Dallas, the first of which that Kennedy was assassinated. Jumping ahead a few decades to Tuesday night,…

Visualization: All-Star East Versus West Win Gap

Visualization: Every All-Star, 1951-2012

In honor of the 61st All-Star Game, we’ve compiled every professional player to ever don an all-star jersey, and sized ’em up according to number…

Show Griffin the Door, Harry Potter

Before we get going, I just want to take a moment to thank Grey and Adam for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the…

RCL Master Standings (Updated: 2/24)

Things after nine weeks are continuing to move with less movement than Amar’e Stoudemire going for a rebound. Only one team chute ‘n’ laddered more…

Oui,Oui, Ouietrus

Mickael Pietrus went 16/7/2, as he got the starting nod at PF with O’Neal and Wilcox both out. It was one of those douchey bro-nods,…

Owning Hibbert Is Like Having The Love Of A Man For A Cuban Cigar

In a season where everyone is tired and worn out, Roy Hibbert went and dropped 30 points on the lowly Hornets. If that wasn’t enough,…

Adieu Ginobili

It’s time to start calculating whether eight weeks of the best free agent left in your league pool is better than five weeks of Manu…

New York Stickershockers

Okay, I give up. I’m flabbergasted by what’s going on in New York. Just like the last rave I attended in which everyone wore furry…

Buy In & Sell Lin

Our first Buy/Sell of the season comes to from our very own Josh Vitale from the football side of the site. I say “our very…

RCL Master Standings (Updated: 2/17)

Week 8 bangs and shimmies its way to a close with seven of last week’s 10 top teams staying right where we left them. Week…

The Joshua Spree

J-Smoove (or Joove to his friends and accountants) had 30 points, 17 rebounds and 7 assists. Which brings up a good question: was he close…

Daniel Day-Lewis Disease Spreads Through NBA

Many tears were shed on Valentine’s Day, and not because lonely people were curled up on the couch with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s,…

Chris Kaman Saw And Kicked Ass

Chris Kaman is back in the starting lineup and should be back in your lineu,p too . He should have been in all lineups last…

The Thrill Of The Chase

I almost titled this post “C Bud Run, Run Chase, Run” but thought that might make everyone go crosseyed. Also, he didn’t have a great…

Friday Night Contest Announcement: $100 Could Be Yours

Hey! Yeah, you. No, not you. The guy reading this over your shoulder with the “Over 40 & Feelin’ Foxy” t-shirt on. Yeah, you. You…

RCL Master Standings (Updated: 2/10)

Week 7 finds a few grazing gazelles dying from hunger near the bottom of the league. What? That odd and perhaps inaccurate metaphor doesn’t make…

Panning For Golden Nuggets

Leading up to last night’s game, it was fairly unclear who would make up for Danilo Gallinari‘s minutes, or if not minutes, his production. If…

Get On Paul George and … Bingo!

We’ve let this go on long enough; this Paul George wreckin’ crew situation. He’s killing it lately, and if he’s on your fantasy team, he’s…

Knicks RollLin

Jeremy Lin started over Iman Shumpert again, which suggests three things: 1) Shumpert is still very, very raw and not ready to lead this team…

RCL Master Standings (Updated: 2/3)

At the close of Week 6, One Piece has remained bulletproof atop the standings. If he were streaking toward the end zone, he’d be watching…

Dirk’ed Over

Entering this season, everyone (including this humble narrator) was weary of Dirk Nowitzki, which is a weird thing to be for a healthy reigning NBA…

Roy’s Progress Continues Uninhibberted

Roy Hibbert, the giraffe-half of Indy’s starting front court earned his ninth double-double of the season (18/14, with four blocks). After his first 20 games…

By Book’er By Crook, Grab Trevor

Never mind that the news of Andray Blatche being out for about a month brought me more joy than sadness (schadenfreude, snitches!). Also, forget that…

A Few More Mavericks Go Rogue

Dirk Nowitzki earned his second double-double of the season. So that’s nice. It was his first game back in more than a week. So that’s…

Quick Announcement: Money For Nothin’

Your remaining moments are fleeting to get in on the Friday night $100 prize contest held by Razzball sponsor Daily Joust. It’s free to enter.…

RCL Master Standings (Updated: 1/27)

. Week 5 is as dead and buried as the Bobcats’ playoff chances and in the RCLs, we’re seeing some more leveling offt and a…

Grinnin’ And Baron It

There was wide speculation yesterday afternoon that Baron Davis would make his season debut against the team that released him five weeks ago after he…

2012: The Year The Triple-Double Died Infographic

Two weeks ago, the New York Times published an article detailing the rapid decline of triple-doubles in the NBA. On Monday, Kyle Lowry went 16/10/10…

On ‘Til No Kemba

It appears that maybe the Rookie of the Year race could resemble the Dunkin Donuts jumbotron race the United Center plays during time outs atBulls…

Da-Two-Ron-Ronnies

It’s a veritable Ron-a-thon in the FA pool. Derrick Rose returned after a couple games off and tagged out Deng for what looks to be…

Sweet And Mo Down

Chris Paul sat out his fifth game yesterday. That, along with Caron Butler‘s recent tweak, paved the way for Mo Williams to get his minutes…

Commenter Master Standings (Updated: 1/20)

One Piece looks to be an unstoppable juggernaut after the first four weeks of the season, having never spent a week outside of the top…

Visualization: The Robot In The Bulls Logo

This made the rounds back in 2009. I never felt it was done properly. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s like a…

Wall Takes Care Of His Own

There I was: settled in for a long evening of basketball-related entertainment, when all of a sudden my Twitter and my Tumblr and my Facebooks…

Nate Rob Set To Regulate

Monta Ellis played 32 minutes. The rest was spent nursing his broke-ass face that became broke after Anderson Varejao elbowed it into a million pieces.…

Keep An Ayon Gustavo

I’m just gonna say this, and then I’m gonna stand by it: I’m almost positive that whenever anyone thinks of the Gustavos of the NBA,…

MLK Day Means Miller Looking to Kill

Mike Miller is set to to make his season debut with the Heat today, which is particularly fortuitous (if I may use that term on…

Commenter Master Standings (Updated: 1/13)

The most recent week of fantasy basketball felt like every scene in the movie “300.” Except that Dwight Howard wears more armor, LeBron is more…