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Wire to Wire - Preseason Edition
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Editorial, Free Agency, H2H, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Roto, Sleepers, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent, Waiver Pick Ups,
Wire to Wire aims to be your waiver wire resource for all of your fantasy basketball needs. It will dive into playing time trends, injury replacements, and even an occasional category specialist – all of which can be found on a typical waiver wire within your fantasy league at any given time.
For many leagues, this weekend is the one where your fantasy basketball rosters come to fruition. Preseason activity is over, you’ve scoured the box scores, and you’re ready to roll. You get your cheat sheets together, put on your “Witness” t-shirt, and start drafting. OK, maybe that second part is just something that I do, but you get the drift. It’s go time. It’s make or break time. It’s tell your buddies that Pau Gasol is a solid second round pick time!
I’ve taken part in several mock drafts and real drafts thus far, and let me tell you – no matter what shape or size league you’re in, there is some value to be had in that waiver wire. Quick note: Everyone and their brothers are talking about Boston’s Rajon Rondo…so I’m choosing not too. If you think he’ll get playing time, then go for it. Just remember that there are about 6 legitimate point guards/shooting guards in Bean Town. Oh, and Paul Pierce will get his time. You’ve been forewarned. Wait, I just talked about him…I knew that wouldn’t work.
Let’s dig in.
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Injury Lowdown: One Thumb Down - Mike Bibby To Miss First Two Weeks
Posted by Ron Chow Categories: Injuries, Pacific Division, Sacramento Kings, Site Features,
Mike Bibby injured his thumb in an exhibition game against the New Orleans Hornets on Sunday. It was diagnosed that Mike Bibby has a mallet thumb – an injury in which a finger tendon becomes detached from a bone, preventing the finger to fully extend. Ouch!
Fantasy Lowdown:
New addition John Salmons will get a little more burn in Bibby’s absence. John Salmons should start at PG and should be considered in deep leagues. Last year as a starter, Salmons averaged 9.5 points, 4.0 assists, 3.5 rebounds with a decent 46.5 FG%. Jason Hart will see some time backing up Salmon and should not be picked up.
For H2H leagues, the Sacramento Kings’ schedule for Week 1 & 2 consists of three games each. For those who have drafted Mike Bibby (I am included) you will need to suck it up and make do. For leagues that have not drafted yet do not drop Bibby too far down your cheat sheets. If it MUST happen it is better that the injury happened early in the fantasy season instead during your playoff run. Mike Bibby in the last three seasons has only missed two games so chances are he will be healthy for the rest of the season.
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Injury Lowdown: When It Rains It Pours - Another Laker Is Injured
Posted by Ron Chow Categories: Injuries, Pacific Division, Los Angeles Lakers, Site Features,
Kwame Brown is the latest Laker sidelined with an injury. Kwame will miss three to four weeks with a bruised rotator cuff and bursitis in his right shoulder. He will miss the start of the regular season.
Chris Mihm is still recovering from off-season surgery on his ankle and is not expected to be ready for Opening Night.
Kobe Bryant is recovering from off-season knee surgery and hopes to be ready for the start of the season.
Vladmimir Radmonovic has a sprained ligament in his right hand, which happens to be his shooting hand.
Heck even Coach Phil Jackson is hobbled from a hip replacement surgery.
Stay Away from the water in the Lakers’ locker room.
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Dropping Dimes’ Experts Roto League: Richard Christ’s Team
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Roto, Site Features, Sleepers, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
Fantasy Sports R Us was also nice enough to take part in our experts’ roto league. Thanks to Richard Christ for reppin’ them. They can explain what they are about better than I can, so here is what I found on their site…
“FSRU is the #1 most hated fantasy leagues site on the net. Why? Because we have the highest payouts, we are the fastest growing, and damn it we are just flat out the best. Period.”
Check them out. In the meantime, peep what they did at our draft. For full draft results, click here.
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Dropping Dimes’ Experts Roto League: Brandon Haraway’s Team
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Roto, Site Features, Sleepers, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
The Fantasy Lounge is a relatively new messageboard community. Dennis Velasco told me about their existence after some of our past contacts settled in over there. All the major sports are covered, and they also have a “Cooler Talk section for non-sports talk. Check it out.
Thanks to Brandon Haraway for representing the Lounge and participating in our first ever experts’ league. Check out his team inside.
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Dropping Dimes’ Experts Roto League: Neil Tardy’s Team
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Props, Rookies, Roto, Site Features, Sleepers, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
The Talented Mr. Roto is a pillar of fantasy sports. They rep fantasy hoops over at NBA.com, and if you have not studied up on Matthew Berry’s Draft Day Manifesto, then you need to get cracking because you are behind in the game.
Thanks to Neil Tardy for representing TMR and taking part in our league. Neil drew the shortest straw in that he drafted last out of twelve teams. Although in this slot a team gets to make back-to-back picks, a lot of players fly off the board before your turn comes up again. Let us see what he had to say about his team!
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Dropping Dimes’ Expert Roto League: Scott Sargent’s Team
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Roto, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
Could this be the scene on April 18, 2007, the last day of the season? Marvin Williams, a sleeper of an eighth round pick pumping his first in victory, while the leader of my team walks away dejectedly? While Josh Smith, representing Fantasy Sports R Us chews him out for not passing him the rock?
Sarge can rant with the best of them. Let’s hear what he has to say about his team.
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Dropping Dimes’ Experts Roto League: Alvin Lai’s team
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Roto, Site Features, Sleepers, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
I was lucky enough to land the #5 pick in the Dropping Dimes Expert League draft held on October 12th, 2006. There may not be popular consensus on who should be the top pick overall this year, but most are in agreement who the top five in any draft should be. The order in which those five players are drafted is another story for another day. You could make it a top six depending on how you feel about Dwyane Wade and his three-point shot.
My first pick was easy; I just waited and picked the guy who was left over after LBJ, the Matrix, Dirk and KG went off the board. After that, the heavy lifting began.
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Dropping Dimes’ Expert Roto League: Dennis Velasco’s Team
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Roto, Site Features, Sleepers, Southeast Division, Southwest Division, Talent,
The Dropping Dimes Experts League draft was held on Thursday, October 12th, 2006. Perhaps some of the fantasy owners in the field wanted to hex the rest of the league Friday the 13th style, as they were milking the clock down as early as the first round! No big deal though, because unless you are in college and stacked your schedule such that you have no class on Friday, what better activity is there to do on a Thursday night than a fantasy basketball draft? (Note to our readers: I do not follow either Grey’s Anatomy or ER, though I hear both are quality televsion shows.)
We have asked our fellow team owners to send us their answers to our questions re: their newly minted fantasy squad. First up, who else…our head honcho, Dennis Velasco!
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DroppingDimes.Com MySpace Page
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Site Announcements, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division,
Be Our Friend!!
After doing a little tweaking, Droppingdimes.com’s MySpace page is up and running. We’ve updated the blogs to include links to our rankings, and will post bulletins all season long with updates, news and notes!
Plus, where else can you say you’re on the same network as Yao Ming and Ben Wallace!? C’mon…You know you want to…
Add DroppingDimes.com as your MySpace Friend!
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