Dan Titus and I put together this league. Titus gave me a legitimate name to float, and we got a lot of sharp analysts (and then myself) into the annual Y! Friends and Family League. (I am old and am currently trying to figure out how to make it viewable. It should be at https://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/League/friendsandfamily2025) […]
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DeMar DeRozan
AD to IR, LeLuka Makes Lakers Debut
February 11, 2025 | 2024-25 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 5 Commentsby: Jay
I honestly think this is bad script writing. And when it comes to bad writing, it takes one to know one, ya know? No, I don’t know, just to avoid the self-own, but what I’m trying to say is, Anthony Davis getting injured? Who could ever think? I mean, true, the last 2-3 seasons have […]
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January 17, 2025 | 2024-25 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 8 Commentsby: Jay
Hey now, what is this, two days in a row of content created by Jay? And referring to myself in the third person? Oh wait, I do that part all the time. But yeah, we got some great games taking place during a really fun season (sans the complaints earlier in the year when everyone […]
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Rotation Notes: Paolo Benchedero
November 1, 2024 | 2024-25 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes | 1 Commentby: The Educator
So THAT’S why Paolo Banchero stopped driving the other night and chucked up three pointers! If you missed it, Paolo Banchero, future first round fantasy pick and guy who hit a 50 burger earlier, will be evaluated in 4-6 weeks for a torn oblique muscle. Talk about a season going sideways, right? If you own […]
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Early Buy Low And Sell High Candidates
October 28, 2024 | 2024-25 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Buy/Sell | 3 Commentsby: Maks
The beginning of the fantasy hoops season is in many ways the most exciting stretch of the year. In your league, everyone is engaged and still confident their team has a chance to win. Activity is at an all-time high. In the NBA, some players look poised to have career years. Others look like they’re […]
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Fantasy Basketball Podcast: Our Guys vs. Their Guys
October 22, 2024 | 2024-25 Fantasy Basketball, Podcast | 8 Commentsby: Mr. Hooper
NBA basketball is nigh! In the last hours of the preseason, Joel and Ossie review their rosters and rattle off the players they’ve hitched their wagons to and feel good about as well as those that came with buyer’s remorse. Then, the duo gaze longingly at the players they wish they had more of and […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? Fantasy Basketball Podcast: Preseason Potpourri
October 16, 2024 | 2024-25 Fantasy Basketball, Podcast | 10 Commentsby: Mr. Hooper
After a weekend touching grass, Joel and Ossie return to survey the fantasy landscape now that NBA preseason is up and running. While both are wary of making dramatic conclusions based on the first games of the preseason, the duo nevertheless take a stab at sorting out Golden State’s rotation, check in on the shooting […]
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October 8, 2024 | 2024-25 Fantasy Basketball, Draft, Podcast |by: Mr. Hooper
Timers are ticking down, projection sheets are spread wide, and queues (for goodness sake!) are being set. We’re in the beating heart of draft season, so Joel and Ossie break down how to approach a format that has gotten its hooks into them: the deep draft and hold roto contest. Volume is king in roto, […]
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February 7, 2024 | 2023-24 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Daily Notes |by: The Educator
Deadline day is tomorrow! Instead of a game by game recap, I’m Googling trade rumors and then going to figure out who would benefit. Stash season, and not the Pencil Thin kind. So who’s rumored to be traded? Andrew Wiggins It might be time to see if Wiggins has been dropped in your league. I […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? Joel Pod 11: New Year, New Me?
February 2, 2024 | 2023-24 Fantasy Basketball, Podcast |by: Mr. Hooper
On a peculiar February 1, Joel and Son look back at January’s risers and fallers across the fantasy basketball landscape. The pair discuss OG Anunoby’s opportunity in New York, Pascal Siakam’s ceiling in Indiana, and draw parallels between Brandon Ingram and Julius Randle. Should the Thunder trade Josh Giddey? Is LeBron finally old? Where did […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? 2023-24 Midseason Fantasy Power Rankings, 19-22
January 30, 2024 | 2023-24 Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Rankings |by: Jay
Welcome back to the third post of this mini-series as we take a moving snapshot in time, even if that sounds like an oxymoron. But basically, we’re taking this point in the season to take a look at the NBA landscape through the meta-fantasy lens. Sounds like it’s from the future, with robot dragons wearing […]
Please, blog, may I have some more? Joel Pod 9: Midseason Survey and Second Half Lookahead
January 18, 2024 | 2023-24 Fantasy Basketball, Podcast | 4 Commentsby: Mr. Hooper
We’re back from break and podding in the new year! After spending a week in a basketball deprivation tank, Joel and Son kick off 2024 by surveying their fantasy teams and discussing what’s gone right (Alperen Sengun for Son, Grayson Allen for Joel) and what’s gone wrong (Cade Cunningham and Devin Booker for both.) The […]
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