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Author: JB Gilpin

Chief Editor for Razzball Fantasy Basketball. Fantasy Sports Writer for Razzball Football and Razzball Baseball. Co-Host of the Razzball Fantasy Football Podcast. Go Crew, Panthers, Blue, & Heels! Follow me on Twitter @jbgilpin

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07/06/2016 – NBA Free Agency Bonanza!

July 6, 2016 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 59 Comments

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The floodgates are open! With salary caps expanded following the NBA’s most recent TV-megadeal, millions are being thrown out to anyone and everyone… Ian Mahinmi? Come on down! Timofey Mozgov? You’re the next contestant on The Price is Right! Hey, Wiz and Lakers, you coulda just traded for one of Philly’s 10 centers! On today’s show, Slim and I go through all 30 NBA teams and react to their biggest free agency moves and how it will impact the upcoming 2016-17 season. We cover, like, 200 moves! Well, maybe not that many, but we break down some of our favorite under-the-radar signees and how to value the 2016-17 Western Conference All-Star Team. Aherm, I mean the Warriors… Here’s our latest offseason edition of the Razzball Basketball Podcast:

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2016 NBA Draft Review For Fantasy Impact

June 26, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 59 Comments

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Man, crazypants Thursday night!  I know what you’re all thinking…  “A live reaction to the madness would be better!”  Well, hopefully you downloaded and listened to our Draft Day Live Podcast!  If not, listen to it while reading this if you have a fluky-good, multi-tasking mind.  It’s tough for me to read while listening to a Podcast, it’s like that feeling when someone just starts shouting random numbers at you when you’re trying to count.  1-2-3-4-5 “17!” 6-7-8 “22!” 8… 8…  ugh, I lost my spot!  Assholes…

The first 9 picks went fairly unsurprisingly, although we did miss on virtually everything in our Mock Draft.  Pretty sure I beat Slim 2-1 overall (edit – ugghhhh Slim’s right he got Zizic, we tied, ahhhhh!)!  Then when the Bucks made their 10th pick…  All hell broke loose!  Dudes I joked around about as 2nd round sleepers getting picked in the lottery, Suns making baller trades, someone’s twitter getting hacked…  Oh wait, that was the NFL draft.  I guess it wasn’t quite THAT crazy!  Here’s my analysis for each rookie’s fantasy impact, along with my grade for each team’s pick in a real-life context and my guess at where each rookie will rank in my 2016-17 redraft rankings to come out this summer:

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JB Gilpin

06/23/2016 – NBA Draft Live Podcast Special!

June 23, 2016 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 17 Comments

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The Draft is here! And talk about immediacy! Slim and I live podcast through the 2016 NBA Draft’s first 10 picks, including the absolutely nutso 10th pick. What is going on in Milwaukee?! We also go through the trades that went down right before the draft, including Derrick Rose‘s new home and the Bulls depth chart at PG. Keep your eye out for a full draft recap over the weekend! Here’s our live Podcast coverage of the 2016 NBA Draft:

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JB Gilpin

Cleveland Finally Rocks

June 21, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 11 Comments

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The drought is over, the drought is over! Cleveland has finally won a sports championship after 50 some odd years, including the world of fiction where the Indians couldn’t even win in Major League. Remember when CLE fans were burning their LeBron jerseys? Ah, how things have changed… And a good excuse for me to show my graphic representation of when LeBron was re-signed and his introduction press conference!

LeBron Gets New Cavs Jersey

Wow, things change in 2+ years, including my eye at graphic design! At least I hope! I remember that was pretty hard to put together too…

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JB Gilpin

They Could’ve Been Porn Stars: Georgios Papagiannis

June 15, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 5 Comments

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As we prep for the 2016 NBA Draft in a mere week, I’ve noticed that some of the buzziest guys we didn’t draft in Slim and I’s (grammar police!) 2016 NBA Mock Draft have some absolutely awesome names.  And what do you think of when you hear absolutely awesome male names?  Porn stars of course!  So I dedicated a little mini-series to the under-the-radar draft day names that could sneak their way into the first round and have some deep league 2016-17 fantasy impact.

In our results for Diamond Stone: Better Porn Star or NBA Career – we had an overwhelming 91.7% of voters say better porn star!

Ok, ok, ok, this one probablyyyyyy shouldn’t count.  I know like 10% of you are like, “why is Chevy Chase’s son from Vegas Vacation in the draft?!”, but no, we’re taking a look at Papa Georgio from Greece, Georgios Papagiannis.  Who’s hungry for a Greek pizza?!

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JB Gilpin

They Could’ve Been Porn Stars: Diamond Stone

June 10, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes |

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As we prep for the 2016 NBA Draft in a mere two weeks, I’ve noticed that some of the buzziest guys we didn’t draft in Slim and I’s (grammar police!) 2016 NBA Mock Draft have some absolutely awesome names.  And what do you think of when you hear absolutely awesome male names?  Porn stars of course!  So I dedicated a little mini-series to the under-the-radar draft day names that could sneak their way into the first round and have some deep league 2016-17 fantasy impact.

In our results for Thon Maker: Better Porn Star or NBA Career – we’re at 75.9% better Porn Star!

So I typo-ed his name in the title “Diamond Stones”, and almost left it due to how it fits the series…

But in all seriousness, we’re here to talk about Diamond Stone!  Singular!  But if he did have two kids, he could say he has two little Stones…  This is too fun!

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JB Gilpin

They Could’ve Been Porn Stars: Thon Maker

June 8, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 30 Comments

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As we prep for the 2016 NBA Draft in a mere two weeks, I’ve noticed that some of the buzziest guys we didn’t draft in Slim and I’s (grammar police!) 2016 NBA Mock Draft have some absolutely awesome names. And what do you think of when you hear absolutely awesome male names? Porn stars of course! So I dedicated a little mini-series to the under-the-radar draft day names that could sneak their way into the first round and have some deep league 2016-17 fantasy impact.

To kick this series off – have you ever done the thing where you figure out what “your” porn star name would be? It’s your middle name as your first name, and the street you grew up on as your last name. Mine is “Brock Eastway”. How baller is that?! Share your own names below!

Consistently ranked just outside the first round (yeah, there’s no smooth transition here!), 7’1 Thon Maker has been making some noise recently as a draft day riser. The most recent buzz is the Pistons are apparently raving about the guy, and might consider nabbing him at 18th. Pretty big news for a guy that wasn’t even sure he would get declared eligible by the NBA when he announced he wanted to enter the draft on April 3rd. He’s 19, but didn’t play in the NCAA, instead staying at his high school as a “post-graduate” student. Yeah, it’s called failing high school… I dunno how anyone bought that!

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JB Gilpin

Sixers Fans Finally Have Their Balls Drop

May 18, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 20 Comments

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Being a Sixers fan the past 5 years has been a swift kick to the nards. And with such unabashed tanking, they’ve only gotten the 3rd pick in the lotto the past two seasons, but NO MORE! Those kicked-in nards are falling dropping with the fortune of winning the lottery, which hopefully in this case goes better than the winner in Shirley Jackson’s world…

If you missed the balls dropping last night, the Philadelphia 76ers “won the lottery” by getting the first pick. They had the most balls as well, something rarely said about the Sixers franchise lately. We get the metaphor already! Watch Philly screw it up too… Looking at their 1st-round picks the past few years, their best one was probably Nikola Vucevic… That didn’t end up working out well for Philly! So I expect them to pass on Ben Simmons and Brandon Ingram and go, I dunno, the last of the Plumlee clan so they can have Duke twin towers… Big man is a need for them right?! RIGHT?!

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JB Gilpin

05/12/2016 – “I Hate Those Skateboarders On My Sidewalk!”

May 12, 2016 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 23 Comments

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Wooooo, we’re back baby! The Razzball Hoops Pod returns from our slumber to check in with the NBA Playoffs thus far, and the impacts it’s making on the upcoming 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball landscape. We chat Stephen Curry injuries, Jonas Valanciunas‘ strong play before getting hurt, and a surprise stat from Mason Plumlee. Slim also grills me on my Way Too Early Ranks and then we wrap up at the movies.

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JB Gilpin

Playoffs?! What We’ve Learned So Far

May 6, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 28 Comments

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The first round of the NBA Playoffs wrapped up on Sunday, with one awful Game 7 that I think everyone saw coming (I at least figured it was a blowout) and one fantastic Game 7 that seemed like a blowout early on, only to become a thriller.  Paul George isn’t elite!  Oh no, we’re STILL coming back to that one?!

While playoff hoops means very little to the fantasy discussion, there are some little nuggets (no, not Nate Robinson) that can help point us to some sneaky values in the subsequent season’s fantasy draft.  I’m thinking of Draymond Green in the 13-14 playoffs going 11.9/8.3/2.9/1.7/1.7 before his breakout, Otto Porter, etc.  But as we’ve progressed to a few games in the Second Round, there really ain’t that much going on anymore for fantasy purposes.  To be completely honest – and I know it might be sacrosanct – I don’t watch a ton of playoff hoops, especially early.  I’m not a fan of a team anymore, it’s not fantasy, and I admittedly get a little fatigued.  It’s a long season!  But ya know – overall – basketball is awesome!  And there were a few takeaways that I think could be applicable to 16-17.  Here’s a few interesting notes from NBA Playoffs so far:

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JB Gilpin

Way Too Early Rankings, Top 50 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

April 26, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 47 Comments

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Ranks are hard! I almost changed the title to “Way Too Much Of A Headache Ranks” since 2016-17 is gonna be ridiculous on draft day! So many guys with upside, so many injury question marks, free agency is gonna explode, we still have rookies to mix in here… And I don’t feel like I have as many “on a limb” calls as the past few seasons. Everything seems to be nebulous, murky, jiggly-like-Raymond-Felton-running, “I guess this guy seems about right” kind of ranks filling out the top 50. If anyone thinks they’re more excited than I am for free agency and the NBA Draft, they would be sorely mistaken! I need some clarity out here, dammit! Hopefully with some signings and scouting the rookies, I can find some more bold calls when we get to the “real” ranks in August. Or maybe I’m gun shy after the Wiggins fiasco. That will go down as one of the biggest international scandals in history… Dammit, eh! Here’s my Way Too Early Top 50 (1-10 can be read here, 11-25 here) for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season (with 1-50 in a complete list below):

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Way Too Early Rankings, Top 25 For 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball

April 20, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 57 Comments

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Oh man, things are going to get saucy in the second round!  After Slim and I (and most of you commenters) seemed to more-or-less agree on most of my top-10, here’s where I gotta get my defending pants on.  They kinda look like waders, but they’re decked out in OKC branded colors and logos.  I call them my “Dion Waiters”!  BOOM!  Offseason jokes are in in-season form!

While we’re all watching StanVan complain about the LeBron calls and crossing our fingers Steph is healthy enough to come back for game 3, there’s no better time to dive into the deep end of hoops rankings a good 5 months too early.  Can I put Ben Simmons in the top-25 yet?!  Pssshhh, thing be gettin’ crazy outside the top 10, but not dat crazy!  Here’s my Way Too Early Top 25 for the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season:

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