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Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Deploy Murphy
Troy Murphy signed with the Celtics, who seem to be gunning for the all-time record of broke-down NBA big men. Erick Dampier feels like he…
- Adam
- March 2, 2011
- 20
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Parker est le Français Grillées
Admit it, despite the fact that San Antonio’s Tony Parker hasn’t missed fewer than 10 games in any of his previous three seasons, you thought…
- Adam
- March 1, 2011
- 12
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Best-Chase Scenario
Houston’s Chase Budinger has averaged 30 mpg in the three games since Thursday’s trade deadline. In that small sample size, Budinger has averaged .516/.850, along…
- Adam
- February 28, 2011
- 29
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
52 Hard Pickups
Between trades and buyouts, more than 50 players will be wearing jerseys they weren’t wearing a week ago. Fifty. Five-oh, my! We’ve had three of…
- Adam
- February 25, 2011
- 38
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Deron The Side Of Caution
This time of the year is always bittersweet. Shuffling up the collective deck of players and dealing them all over the NBA map is fun…
- Adam
- February 24, 2011
- 12
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Where The Reviled Kings Are
Tyreke Evans will miss the next three weeks with the same foot problems that has dogged him all week. Normally in these circumstances, the coach…
- Adam
- February 23, 2011
- 26
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
For He’s A Jolly Good ‘Melo
By now you, you’re undoubtedly getting fat off the meat of yesterday’s trades. You’ve unbuttoned your trousers, leaned back hard in your chair, farted a…
- Adam
- February 22, 2011
- 18
Loose Balls
Fantasy Basketball Comparisons: All-Star Break
With no real basketball on this weekend, now is as good of a time as any to sit back, relax, fall asleep, wake up all…
- Adam
- February 21, 2011
- 5
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Cracklin’ Rose
Derrick Rose scored a career-high 39 points on October 30, the second game of the season. Fifty-two games later, he bested his career-high by three,…
- Adam
- February 18, 2011
- 21
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Rue De Day
Okay, so you saw GrizzMaster Gay shoot a pair of free throws, clutch his shoulder and leave the game for good on Tuesday. You went…
- Adam
- February 17, 2011
- 11
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Gentlemen, Start Your Hot Rods!
… Well, okay. Maybe don’t start Rodrigue Beaubois tonight. I needed a title to today’s rundown and it seemed to fit. They can’t all be…
- Adam
- February 16, 2011
- 22
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Love Is Real, Not Fade Away
It never fails. A guy gets a bunch of hubbub around him, defenders start playing tougher, nastier, they’re more attentive. Suddenly that guy doesn’t seem…
- Adam
- February 15, 2011
- 5
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Pierced Through The Heart, And Paul’s To Blame
Paul Pierce played almost 40 minutes and went 0-for-10 from the field, and 1-for-2 from the line. Forty minutes, bro!?! I get that sometimes players…
- Adam
- February 14, 2011
- 7
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Sloan Out Of Proportion
For 23 years, Utah head coach Jerry Sloan won 60 percent of his games (1,221 of ’em in the regular season), made it to the…
- Adam
- February 11, 2011
- 12
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
AVery BadCoach
The Nets beat one of the best teams in the Western Conference last night on the strength of three bench players. So it makes perfect…
- Adam
- February 10, 2011
- 16
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
You Can Call Me ‘Ow’
Atlanta’s Al Horford was at shootaround sometime around 2 pm. Then he decended into the locker room, and came out for his game against the…
- Adam
- February 9, 2011
- 13
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Chauncey’s Lawson Denver’s Gain
There are three fantasy basketball owners out there. The kind that had Ty Lawson and threw him back into the pool, the kind that hung…
- Adam
- February 8, 2011
- 20
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Brand Recognition
Elton Brand mollywhopped the Knicks with a 28/5 line and perpetuated my prediction that Brand would have his best season since 2006. And he is.…
- Adam
- February 7, 2011
- 11
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
LeBron Y’Aur Stomp
LeBron James set the season’s scoring bar at 51 points against the Orlando Magic last night. And while he also grabbed 11 boards and doled…
- Adam
- February 4, 2011
- 18
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Elementary, My Dear Earl
I wanted to call this Earl Watson-centered intro Earl, You’ll Be A Go, Man Soon, but two things happened: 1) people stopped listening to Urge…
- Adam
- February 3, 2011
- 20
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
LA, A Note To Follow ‘Whoa’
It always bugged me that in ‘Do-Re-Mi,’ the hyper-catchy song from The Sound of Music, the ‘La’ portion of the musical scales was just a…
- Adam
- February 2, 2011
- 7
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Buy George!
I know Hibbert will get most of the press from last night, after his immediate statsplosion following Jim O’Brien’s firing. For my money though, Paul…
- Adam
- February 1, 2011
- 18
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Anderson Hooper Should Be Owned 360 Degrees Around All Leagues
Sometimes things can get a little snarky here at Razzball. Sometimes? Well, yeah, Italics Baldwin. Sometimes. Uh, and ‘a little snarky’? Just a tad, yeah.…
- Adam
- January 31, 2011
- 23
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
OTCs Available At The Mayo Clinic
So O.J. Mayo‘s life of crime isn’t working out as he hoped. First he gets his time with USC struck from the historical record after…
- Adam
- January 28, 2011
- 36
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Kevin On Earth
I hope the Thunder did a little something special for the Velvet Hoop last night after he – again – pulled his team through to…
- Adam
- January 27, 2011
- 8
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Gordon Slumway
Through the first half of the season, any Clipper talk has centered almost primarily around Blake Griffin‘s phatness or Baron Davis‘ fatness. Little respect has…
- Adam
- January 26, 2011
- 22
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Bosh H.A.S. Issues
Word ’round the campfire is that the power forward everybody loves to hate dared to whisper about a H.A.S. (high ankle sprain) ion the last…
- Adam
- January 25, 2011
- 15
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
2010 Fantasy Basketball Strategy, Evaluating A Timeshare
Outside of player injuries, players sharing equal minutes with other players at a position for stretches of games is just about as annoying as it…
- Adam
- January 24, 2011
- 16
Razzball Commenter Leagues
Razzball Commentor Leagues: Mid-Term Report
Sunday marked the end of Fantasy Basketball Week 12, which also happens to be the halfway point of the regular season. It doesn’t just happen to…
- Adam
- January 21, 2011
- 22
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
No Mo, Fo Sho
Okay, so it turns out hurling bricks is not as good for Mo Williams‘ hips and groin-ial area as Mo at first thought. He’s out…
- Adam
- January 20, 2011
- 7
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Marcus’ DamnKnee
Well, you knew it was coming. Everyone warned you. You hoped the few games he missed in December counted as the Dreaded Camby Injury of…
- Adam
- January 19, 2011
- 11
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Steph-By-Steph
Stephen Curry ended his season averaging 26.4/6.4/8.1 in April and he catapulted to many pre-season top 10 lists (not this one). Halfway through this season…
- Adam
- January 18, 2011
- 21
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
This Booz’ Wasn’t Made For Walkin’
When Chicago’s Carlos Boozer left Saturday’s game with a rolled ankle, two things popped into my mind: 1) His blocking numbers suggest he’s been playing…
- Adam
- January 17, 2011
- 9
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
R.I.P. Hamilton
The Pistons said they benched former star(ter) Richard Hamilton on Wednesday so as not to risk injuring him before they ship him off to a…
- Adam
- January 14, 2011
- 21
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Stretch Marcus
A couple weeks back I pointed out that the Hornets were 4-0 this season when Marcus Thornton sees at least 22 minutes of pee-tee. Well,…
- Adam
- January 13, 2011
- 5
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Forty-Three With A Bullet
I watched two games last night. The first being the D.C.-Sacramento open gym scrimmage. The second being the L.A.-Cleveland Globetrotters fiasco. Last night, according to…
- Adam
- January 12, 2011
- 10
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Heraldin’ Monroe
I put my thick rubber gloves on and my fisherman’s boots, plugged my nose and strapped on five pairs of goggles like jockeys do on…
- Adam
- January 11, 2011
- 14
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Anderson Veryout For The Season
Amidst all the tomfoolery, rigmarole and other old-timey adjectives my grandfather uses when he throws his shoulder out churning his Victrola, connected with the pending…
- Adam
- January 10, 2011
- 11
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Lamarred Uh-Odom
Lamar Odom will have ‘problematic,’ lingering shoulder pain, according to Phil Jackson. I really appreciate when coaches expand on injury announcements by adding color with…
- Adam
- January 7, 2011
- 43
Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes
Steer Clear Of The Deer
There gets a point in every crayon box where you just don’t want to bother with unwrapping the paper, sharpening the wax down to a…
- Adam
- January 6, 2011
- 20
