JB & Slim Mock The 2016 NBA Draft

May 27, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 59 Comments

The draft is coming, the draft is coming! Since I have no NBA allegiances, I personally get more excited by the NBA draft than by postseason basketball. I know – that’s blasphemy!

You’ve heard it murmured. You’ve heard it yelled. You’ve heard it pounding down on your brain like voices drowning out your inner thoughts. “This year’s draft class SUCKS!” Well, that’s only, kinda-sorta true. I think it sucks in the sense that there’s little “easily-projectable” talent. Lots of rawness getting thrown around here, like a food fight at a sushi bar. “Can I get another Rice Wine!” And with rawness comes upside, and upside comes dynasty moves. Mmmmm, can’t wait for the upcoming season 4 of the REL League! I think since our deep dynasty is my favorite fantasy hoops league, it makes sense that this year’s draft is pretty exciting to me. A lot of speculation that would make The Prospector proud. In that regard, it’s not such a Stinky Pete after all! So be the eternal optimist, dream of some of the 1-and-done upside, and read with us as Slim and I go back-and-forth drafting for NBA teams in our 2016 Mock NBA Draft:

Also – come and join the Razzball League on Fantasy Movie League! You can join our league through this link here, and the Password is “rball”. I’ve usually been pushing for readers to join us on the Podcast, but wanted to get an invite to all as the Summer Season is starting today! Their cutoff for week 1 is at EST so there’s not much time, but you can still play every week starting in week 2 and get pumped up and practice for the Fall Season, which we’ll promote hard and have some Razzball prizes and talk it on the Pod. So be sure and make your picks and try to dethrone yours truly as the winner from Spring! Plus I ended on a perfect cinema – one of only 22 people – and I’m gonna brag about there everywhere I can!

PerfectCinema!

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RazzWired: Droppin Dimes

March 3, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 18 Comments

by: Adam

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We’ve reached the point in the season where we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of picks. At this point, most pickups will be targeting specific stats, so this edition will feature some of the solid guards that are still available in many leagues. I needed a title for this week, and the Lillard/Love ad refused to leave my head… Seemed like a good fit, so I went with it!

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Ow Now Brow WOW!

February 5, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 86 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

So injury-prone guys certainly get a stigmata. Wait, I mean stigma. Well, if you got a stigmata, it certainly would make you injured!

But I’ve been as guilty as anyone of really depressing Anthony Davis‘ value due to his injury issues yet again this year. Boy needs to put some meat on dem bones! Brow tried to lead the Pels to a win last night, going 39/11/0/1/1 on 16-25 shooting. But you gotta make your free throws! 7-12 at the stripe, and the awful, no good, very bad Pelicans lost to the even worse Lakers. At home! Oh man, I’d be binge-eating some beignets, that’s for sure! Even with a rocky start, Brow is 4th in per-game numbers this year, and I think some of the “shut down” concern should be alleviated. Of course if he gets a nagging injury in late-March it’ll happen, so maybe we should keep him out of the top-10 discussion ROS. Oh no, I’m doing it again! Guilty is me! Brow should still probably be a top-5 option, especially with getting me a point on the 30-point challenge board! I would link it, but I’m lazy and haven’t updated it yet… [update – let’s do this 30-Point Board, comeback is nigh!] And to be honest, I’m just grinding through today to get pumped for the Super Bowl weekend! I’m wearing my NFC champ shirt today, but might wear my “Smart” jersey all weekend for luck. Let’s do this Carolina! And let’s do this, rest of the daily notes!

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RazzWired: The Man With 3 Names

February 4, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 19 Comments

by: Adam

Wazzup Razzball nation! Nope, I’m not going to lead off the article with the title, so you’re just going to have to keep reading! Before I get to my favorite dude with 3 names, I’d like to address the situation in the desert. Archie Goodwin, Devin Booker, P.J. Tucker, Markieff Morris, and Alex Len all need to be owned. Odds are, many of them aren’t on the wire in your league, but they should all be getting plenty of run down the stretch. The best of those would definitely be Kieff and Booker. Both players will be heavily featured on the rebuilding Suns. I have a feeling that Kieff is going to stick around in Phoenix for a while. He seems to have a solid relationship with Watson, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that was part of the reason why the front office fired Hornacek mid-season. Phoenix has a lot of incentive to make it work with Kieff, and he’s now getting the run to prove himself again. He’s going to be playing with a chip on his shoulder, so look out!

Mar 29, 2015; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Phoenix Suns forward Markieff Morris (11) celebrates a three point shot by making a gun with his finger aimed at the Oklahoma City Thunder bench in the first quarter at US Airways Center. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

Ok! Now, on to my main man!

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Frank Vogel, American Hero

January 29, 2016 | Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 120 Comments

by: JB Gilpin

We’ve seen so many coaches jack it up before. Year after year, coaches fail to play their best line-ups the most minutes due to “fit” or “rotations” or “Kevin Garnett decides what the Timberwolves do.”

But Frank Vogel is quickly becoming my favorite coach. He kept the Pacers decent last year after a really disheartening second half and playoff exit in 13-14 plus losing Paul George, and last night he did the absolutely unthinkable – he played his best players as the starters. ANTI-SKIIIIIILES! Although Aaron Gordon is getting his run lately… Let’s go ANTI-BICKERSTAFFFFFFF!

Getting his first start at PF (and first start ever!) after playing virtually all his rookie minutes at center, Myles Turner got the nod at the 4 next to Ian Mahinmi and went 20/6/1/0/1 on 9-17 shooting in 26 minutes. And the twin towers rotation worked sooooo well, with the Pacers up virtually the whole game and running away with it late. The Hawks reserves in the early 4th quarter made a nice run to take a 2-point lead with 6 minutes left 90-88, then Vogel went back to the same starting 5 and Indiana ended the game on a crazy hot 23-2 run. What a unit! Coach Butthole is like, “suck my unit!” When I made my original crazy rank for Turner in the pre-season, my love was based around his fit for the run-and-gun offense, and the crazy part is we still haven’t seen the perimeter game yet. He didn’t take any treys in this one, but there’s no reason to think this starting line-up doesn’t stick, which means more minutes for Turner and more opportunities on the perimeter. Hopefully you added him when Mahinmi was out and didn’t let go, because, well, NEVER LET GO JACK! I would totally have Myles take me in the steamy car in the cargo hold… Here’s what else went down in fantasy hoops last night:

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