04/13/2017 – 2016-17 Finale!

April 13, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 14 Comments

The season is officially over! Turn the page on 2016-17! Well, except for those – ya know – 4-month long playoffs… But the regular season has concluded, and on today’s show we talk some finale day performances like Aaron Gordon and Kris Dunn, then recap our 2016-17 ranks and picks! My 2016-17 Ranks, our 2016-17 Razzball Staff Picks, and a final look at our 30-point challenge picks. Thanks again to everyone for listening through this season, and here’s to a big 2017-18 offseason and an ever better year next season!

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2016-2017 NBA Razzies: Awards Ceremony

April 11, 2017 | Loose Balls | 8 Comments

by: JB / Slim

JB – The glitz, the glamour, the Razzies! Slim we’re back, for the 4th Annual Razzies, I can’t believe we’re now simulcast live on ABC, NBC, and Skinamax!

Slim – Yeah, I dunno how you sold that third one…

JB starts to sheepishly unbutton his tuxedo.

Slim – STOP!

JB buttons it back on…

JB – …Well, simulcast on ABC and NBC then… The cameras are out, our NBA nominees are arriving on the red carpet as we speak. Our Razzies are backstage with THE CORRECT award cards set up by our PAs for each 16-17 Razzies, with the Razzie awarded to each esteemed winner by your votes. There’s Chandler Parsons sporting a walking cane, I guess there’s no hope that it was all an act and he goes into a front somersault like Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka, right?!

Slim – …I’m surprised he’s not in a wheelchair… Ohhhh, entering in the west entrance, let’s hope he can fit that hat in under the doorway! It’s… Coach Asshat!

JB – Nice spot Slim, yes Coach Asshat looks like a total Mess, fitting for his season, I just love this time of year!

Slim – Speaking of love, remember last year when I showed you some pictures of Gary Harris I was hoping he would see, this time I have a video!

Slim pulls out his phone [NOT an iPhone!], and starts playing a video. There is so. Much. Hair!

JB – No! NO! Make it stop! Well, we got Skinamax back, but lost ABC and NBC, 1 outta 3 ain’t bad! Speaking of, there’s Andre Drummond! Waving at the crowd, shoulder hair busting through his tuxedo. What a illustrious night. Slim, I think everyone has about filed away into our ballroom, Let’s award some Razzies!

Slim is disgustingly still holding his phone up to the camera. JB just shakes his head…

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2016-2017 NBA Razzies

April 7, 2017 | Loose Balls | 17 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

The Razzies are back! Man, JB almost gets the Razzie for “Tardiness of the Year”! Hey, better late than never!

Hard to believe this our fourth year awarding Razzies to the worst of the worst. Screw all the “season’s best” awards everyone else likes to give out! That’s trash! Fantasy is more frustrating than it is rewarding, we all know that! Let’s take a moment to look back at some of our former winners; so in your head, sing some dramatic music while looking back at our infamous acceptance speeches from our previous seasons:

2013-14 Razzies

2014-15 Razzies

2015-16 Razzies

And for our nominees below, they only need your vote to get their very own awards! We’ve got Kevin Durant looking at his second “worst injury” award, the Lakers going for back-to-back worst fantasy team wins… They’re getting repeats like the Kobe Bryant glory years!

So we call on you – yes, you Razzball Nation – to again vote for the worst of the worst of the 2016-17 Fantasy Basketball Season, by voting on which players, teams, and coaches spurned you the hardest. We’ll be having our Awards Ceremony (winners awards solely off of your votes) and acceptance speeches on Tuesday, so get your votes in over the weekend! Vote once! Vote often! Have your voice be heard, and let’s award some Razzies!

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Unveiling The New 2016-17 REL Champion!

April 5, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 2 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Well, despite my best efforts and a dominant regular season, I fell short in the semis in my run to finally get one of these golden things… Stupid Clippers and their 5 games! I had a huge Finals week as well to win 3rd place in the consolation game, but it was little… consolation.

Anywho, congrats to our new REL Champion – Hard-N-Tha-Paint! A well-deserved victory from the the 4 seed entering the playoffs – topping a strong year from (former RCL champion) High as Greg Kite – assembling a strong, deep team to bring home the gold jersey. I fell to Paint in my semis loss in a bad 8-1 defeat, but it would’ve been a neck-and-neck 5-4 loss to them in the Finals, only losing by 2 treys. And I had someone injured I would’ve streamed, just needed one extra ThrAGNOF and a different opp in the semis, and it coulda happened… Well, woudla-coulda-shoulda for me, but didda-gotta-golden jersey for Tha-Paint! Great season from both of these owners to make it through the grueling season to get the title, and without further ado, here’s our new graphic immortalizing their season!

Here’s how the Finals went down in the REL:

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04/05/2017 – “ThrAGNOF When Wet!”

April 5, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 19 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Champions have been crowned! Congrats to all the winners of standard H2H leagues that wrapped up on Sunday, and on today’s show we cover the heroes of the championship including Rajon Rondo, Jonas Valanciunas, and Aaron Gordon. We also hit some guys we think will be popular sleepers in 2017-18, make our final 30-point challenge picks of the 2016-17 season, then wrap up the week at the movies.

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Announcing The 2016-17 RCL Grand Champion!

April 4, 2017 | Razzball Commenter Leagues | 20 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

It’s time to hand out some hardware! Drop the confetti, grab your Star Wars gold medallions, polish off R2D2, and queue the trumpets, because… The UNC Tar Heels are National Champions! Wooooooo! Man, what a season from the Heels… My terrible bracket in the Razzball Pool had the final game right, so I still ended respectable! More on that later…

Anywho (as my ADD takes over and buries the lead), the 2016-17 RCL Champion is… The Doc is In! Besting the WE-GOT-A-TROPHY! with a 117-52-2 regular season record, the Doc got a trophy indeed! Led by the all-around superstars of Kawhi Leonard, Otto Porter, and of course the tripdub machine Elfrid Payton, the Doc will forever live in infamy, and is our newest member of the RCL Hall of Fame! Long live The Doc!

With the first place finish (as detailed in the Sign-Ups post), The Doc will get a $50 Amazon gift card, plus an amazing Shaming Video that we’ll work out. Ugh, I dunno if I’m ready for this again! And not to be overlooked, 2nd overall finisher A Very Solid Team in the Philzilla’s Pac Coast Razzer league has secured a $20 Amazon gift card. Both you guys reach out to me at [email protected] to claim your prizes, and Doc, go easy on me with the eating challenge ideas!

Be sure and check back with us in September, for your shot to join legends High as Greg Kite, Akron Lebrons, Nick is Razzy, and now The Doc is In for your shot at RCL infamy in 2017-18!

You can take a final look at the RCL standings updated on our Standings Page, and here’s a breakdown of all of our 23 RCL Champs, in order of how they finished by reg. season record:

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03/29/2017 – “If We Combined Forces, We’d Be One Effing Genius”

March 29, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 27 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

The Finals are here! On today’s show, Slim and I catch up on that preposterous Devin Booker game from the weekend, Reggie Jackson‘s potential shut down, and how Slim is managing his squad down the stretch. Monsieur Elbow leading many to the promised land! We also chat on Dennis Schroder vs. Elfrid Payton next year, rapid-fire mock draft the top-6 for 17-18, play a quick edition of Can We Make Slim Look Stupid, make our 30-point challenge picks, then wrap up the week at the movies.

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2016-17 REL Dynasty League Update: Week 22 – Final Battle For The Golden Jersey!

March 27, 2017 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 3 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

REL Basketball1 Well, sing me a song Mr. Emo man, because I am a crier! My dominant regular season turned out to be like the Warriors, and not worth a heaping pile of nada. Wait, that was a weird double negative…

Absolutely monstrous wins from the #4 and #6 seeds, blasting the #1 and #2 bye week teams into oblivion in 8-1 beatdowns. I have more loose bodies blown to bits in my knee than Chandler Parsons! Good luck to both High as Greg Kite and Hard-N-Tha-Paint in the finals! Yet another season that will crown a new winner. Here’s how the semis wrapped up in week 21 in the REL, plus a preview of this week’s Finals for week 22:

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03/25/2017 – “Hung Tough!”

March 25, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 32 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Cinderellas in March Madness, a new Razzball Basketball mascot, and an elbow that is super French, it’s been quite a semi-finals week! Sorry our second installment Pod was a little last this week, but who wouldn’t dig a nice weekend edition of the Pod?! On today’s show, we discuss Rudy Gobert‘s epic stretch run, where Marquese Chriss will go next year, and some other interesting notables through Friday. We then preview both tonight’s games and Sunday’s games for some playoff streaming and make our 30-point challenge picks, then wrap up the week at the movies.

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03/21/2017 – “Fjordio PapaNorwegian”

March 21, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 32 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

It’s the semis baby, only 2 weeks left for standard h2h! Under a month of the NBA regular season left! On today’s show, Slim and I catch up on the pickups from the Kings, Suns, and Lakers that can make a difference in your title-run, then play another edition of Can We Make Slim Look Stupid. Slim definitely wasn’t stupid today! We then preview tonight’s games and make our 30-point challenge picks.

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03/17/2017 – “Wait! He Doesn’t Have A Brain?!”

March 17, 2017 | Razzball Basketball Podcast | 45 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

Super-charged, lightning round edition of the Podcast! So much to cover, so little time! On today’s show, we run through tons of fantasy-impacting news like must-own Suns, guys getting shut down, and vets working their way back in. It’s been a roller coaster these past few days! We then run through the RCL leaders through the completion, a quick edition of Can We Make Slim Look Stupid, make our 30-point challenge picks, and even have time to check in with our Razzball Fantasy Movie League. Told you it’s a lightning round!

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2016-17 RCL Basketball Update: Playoffs Time, Baby!

March 14, 2017 | Razzball Commenter Leagues | 18 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

It’s the most. Wonderful. Time. Of the year! Yeah, some legit winter wonderland going on up north, sheesh you guys must be excited to be snowed in and watch nothing but basketball the next few nights!

With the playoffs abreast, it’s time to start thinking about those payouts and get paid that money!

Hah, I can’t stop laughing at that silly GIF! Effin hilarious. And by money, I mean some Amazon gift cards and another YouTube shaming video, but you can’t really put a price on the latter!

With the regular season now in the books, the 2016-17 RCL Master Standings Table table is now locked in place as we play out the postseason. Despite a hell of a final push from The Doc is In – going 22-5 over the final 3 weeks – Big Baby’s Lovechild secured the #1 spot through the regular season by a mere half point. What a close race! But it’s of course anyone’s game, as the top teams still need to secure their league championship to win the overall title. So check out where your squads stacked up in the master standings, and here’s some highlights across our 23 RCL Leagues:

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