As I look back on my fantasy basketball career, I find it astonishing how much the game has changed.  Back when JB and I wore bell-bottom jeans and flowing paisley shirts it was just the two of us playing fantasy basketball.  We didn’t have all these fancy categories the kids have today.  All we could keep track of was points and that was hard enough.  Back then we would use a CB radio to relay the scores across the country.  Some nights we would hear, “Wilt Chamberlain scored 72” and others we would hear how, “Harry pests poured only poo.”  Confusing to some, but to us it meant Jerry West must have gotten injured if he only scored 2 points.  We would start our draft with a coin flip to determine draft order.  Nowadays it takes as much computing power to determine draft order as it did to land a man on the moon.  I’m not sure If you have ever played in a 2 team league, but believe me trading was tough.  Once a year I would say, “I’ll give you West and Oscar for Wilt and Bellamy.”  Then JB would say, “Heyyy mannn, I’m not trading Wilt for nothin’, how about just Oscar for Bellamy.”  Inevitably, trade talks ended because we played with only a 2 man roster.

Now people play in 20 team leagues, with 17 player rosters, and my personal favorite the dynasty.  Thankfully when JB and I started, there would be that coin flip every year and our teams would change.  Well, about half the time they changed.  Today’s dynasty format favors those who try to predict how the entire career of a 20 year old kid will turn out.  That sounded much easier to do before I typed it out.  Nothing I can do about that now.  Here’s a couple: