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Fantasy Impact: Allen Iverson Trade
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Atlantic Division, Philadelphia 76ers, H2H, Northwest Division, Denver Nuggets, Rookies, Roto, Trades, Waiver Pick Ups,
Christmas came early for Allen Iverson owners in the world of fantasy basketball thanks to the Philadelphia 76ers finally trading their disgruntled point guard to the Denver Nuggets along with rookie SF/PF Ivan McFarlin for PG Andre Miller, PF Joe Smith, and two 2007 draft picks. Yes, there was much joy and merrymaking since AI, who had not played since December 6 against the Chicago Bulls, will now take to the hardwood instead of getting the much hated DNP, the very bane of fantasy hoops owners.
So, the question now is, what will be the fantasy impact for the players involved in the trade be? Here’s the Answer, literally and nicknamedly – this is a word, right? Subsequent players are listed in terms of degree of fantasy impact.
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Dropping Dimes Staff Week Eight Position Rankings
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Atlantic Division, Central Division, H2H, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Roto, Site Features, Southeast Division, Southwest Division,
The holidays are creeping near. Those of you that own any Warriors, Grizzlies, Nets, Hornets, Knicks, Raptors or Jazz got an early present this year as they each have four games to fill your box scores. So, warm up the yule log and spike the egg nog…Here are the rankings for week eight. First, let’s see how many games each team plays for the week.
Atlanta Hawks - 3; Boston Celtics - 2; Charlotte Bobcats - 3; Chicago Bulls - 3; Cleveland Cavaliers - 3; Dallas Mavericks - 3; Denver Nuggets - 3; Detroit Pistons - 2; Golden State Warriors - 4; Houston Rockets - 3; Indiana Pacers - 3; Los Angeles Clippers - 3; Los Angeles Lakers - 3; Memphis Grizzlies - 4; Miami Heat - 3; Milwaukee Bucks - 3; Minnesota Timberwolves - 3; New Jersey Nets - 4; New Orleans Hornets - 4; New York Knicks - 4; Orlando Magic - 3; Philadelphia 76ers - 3; Phoenix Suns - 3; Portland Trail Blazers - 2; Sacramento Kings - 3; San Antonio Spurs - 3; Seattle Supersonics - 3; Toronto Raptors - 4; Utah Jazz - 4; Washington Wizards - 3
(Note: Rankings were compilied prior to Saturday night’s Knicks/Nuggets brawl. These will not account for pending suspensions)
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Stat’s All Folks: HIBACHI!!!
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: H2H, Props, Roto, Site Features, Talent, Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Hornets, San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Portland Trailblazers, Seattle Supersonics, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings,
Stat’s All Folks will be a week-to-week stock market look at the standard cumulative categories – points, assists, rebounds, three-pointers made, steals, and blocks. I’ll be calling out the “bulls” and “bears” in each category, in order to help you assess your portfolio of players on your fantasy basketball team(s) and whether you should sell, hold, and/or diversify your assets.
Note that you won’t always see the superstar player written about in this column, otherwise it would be LeBron James or Steve Nash every week. So, check out who’s bullish and who’s bearish coming into the week.
Statistics are through December 7th – December 13th.
POINTS
BULLISH
Gilbert Arenas, PG, Washington Wizards
Last Week’s Numbers of Note: 3 G; 35.7 PPG; 47.9 FG%; 78.1 FT%
What does Benihana and Arenas have in common? HIBACHI!!! Apparently, whenever Agent Zero takes a shot, he’s saying the word “hibachi” with each stroke. This is just another example of Arenas’ quirky ways, but there’s no questioning it’s working, is there? Arenas is scoring a little more than six points more in the month of December than he did in November, thanks to slicing to the basket and getting to the charity stripe almost ten times a game. There hasn’t been this much success being off-kilter since Pee Wee Herman. Arenas’ stock is high, so keep your hands on him.
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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.
Huge injuries to players like Ray Allen, Tracy McGrady and Lamar Odom set the tables for this week’s Wire to Wire. However, before we dive into that, let’s see how I did last week…
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Rookie Radar: 12.13.06
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: H2H, Rookies, Roto, Site Features, Talent,
While the NFL has had impact rookies like Reggie Bush, Vince Young and Marques Colston, the NBA isn’t exactly a place where rookies get to shine – due to a plethora of reasons. Sure, we had Chris Paul last season, and even LeBron James in the past, but it’s becoming pretty obvious that there are “none of the above” in this year’s class. However, just because there are no All-Stars this season does not mean that this year’s rookie class can’t help your fantasy team.
Continuing from Zack Francis’ Rookie Radar, I think we may have a realignment on our hands.
1. Jorge Garbajosa, SF/PF/C, Toronto Raptors (Up)
During the last Rookie Radar, Garbajosa was clocking in at about 27 minutes a night. He was making the most of it, frequently chipping in with double-digit points and decent field goal percentage. Since then, the injury to Chris Bosh (knee) has opened up the doors for about five to seven extra minutes a night – with two of his last three games being over 40 minutes. Garbajosa is still putting up buckets, but is also grabbing rebounds and ripping the rock (seven steals in his last three games). He still tries to shoot the three-ball at times, which may do some damage to your field goal percentage from time to time, but right now, I think there are no other rookies worth starting on a daily basis.
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Dime Day: Iverson Watch
Posted by Alvin Lai Categories: Atlantic Division, Philadelphia 76ers, Site Features, Trades,
How is it that news that the NBA will go back to the original ball gets the marquee headline over the pending trade of Allen Iverson? It could be that we have seen this song and dance before. Trade speculation and A.I. have gone hand in hand for years.
Unfortunately it’ll be a while yet before I can resume contributing to this blog regularly again. Until then, Sarge and Dennis will have to hold it down. Still, despite the time crunch, the allure of thinking about a superstar being traded, and whether the real life GMs can gets ideas from us fantasy counterparts has me churning out this edition of Dime Day (even if it’s a few weeks and one day late).
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Dropping Dimes Staff Week Seven Position Rankings
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: H2H, Roto, Site Features, Talent, Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Hornets, San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Portland Trailblazers, Seattle Supersonics, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings,
Well, there’s a lot going on with the Dropping Dimes team, so it looks like there won’t be enough diversity in the rankings with myself and Sarge being the only ones able to drop rankings. But, have no fear, we’re still the best fantasy basketball team out there (along with the fine folks at Give Me The Rock), so peep the rankings for Week Seven, but first check the number of games for each team. Word.
Atlanta Hawks - 4; Boston Celtics - 4; Charlotte Bobcats - 3; Chicago Bulls - 4; Cleveland Cavaliers - 4; Dallas Mavericks - 4; Denver Nuggets - 4; Detroit Pistons - 3; Golden State Warriors - 4; Houston Rockets - 4; Indiana Pacers - 4; Los Angeles Clippers - 4; Los Angeles Lakers - 4; Memphis Grizzlies - 4; Miami Heat - 4; Milwaukee Bucks - 4; Minnesota Timberwolves - 3; New Jersey Nets - 4; New Orleans Hornets - 3; New York Knicks - 4; Orlando Magic - 4; Philadelphia 76ers - 4; Phoenix Suns - 4; Portland Trail Blazers - 3; Sacramento Kings - 3; San Antonio Spurs - 4; Seattle Supersonics - 4; Toronto Raptors - 4; Utah Jazz - 4; Washington Wizards - 3
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Wire to Wire: 12.08.06
Posted by Scott Sargent Categories: Free Agency, Site Features, Sleepers, 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.
After a great week in the Association that featured a 20 assist night from Steve Nash, as well as Joe Johnson making 30 points the “norm,” there were also a few guys that may have flown under the radar in your fantasy leagues. Who are they? You’ll see.
First, let’s grade last week’s picks.
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Stat’s All Folks: Let’s Get Spicy!
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: H2H, Rookies, Roto, Site Features, Talent, Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Hornets, San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Portland Trailblazers, Seattle Supersonics, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Sacramento Kings,
Stat’s All Folks will be a week-to-week stock market look at the standard cumulative categories – points, assists, rebounds, three-pointers made, steals, and blocks. I’ll be calling out the “bulls” and “bears” in each category, in order to help you assess your portfolio of players on your fantasy basketball team(s) and whether you should sell, hold, and/or diversify your assets.
Note that you won’t always see the superstar player written about in this column, otherwise it would be LeBron James or Steve Nash every week. So, check out who’s bullish and who’s bearish coming into the week.
Statistics are through November 29th – December 5th.
POINTS
BULLISH
Eddy Curry, C, New York Knicks
Last Week’s Numbers of Note: 4 G; 25.3 PPG; 60.3 FG%; 60.8 FT%
I’ll admit and say that I was a non-believer. And to some degree I still am – I’ll chalk that up to me being a disgruntled Knicks fan. But, I simply could not believe that Eddy Curry scoring as much as he was the week before was the real deal. If Howie Mandel was in front of me, I would have emphatically said, “NO DEAL!” But, you can’t argue with seven games in a row of 20+ points because instead of Curry’s physique blowing up, his post game is. Buy into it because head coach Isiah Thomas has, recently saying that Curry was the key to the team and that’s music to every Curry owner’s ears. Hopefully it doesn’t turn out to sound like an American Idol tryout.
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Every night of NBA action brings us some bumps and bruises. Here’s a quick run down of some of the latest!
Gary Payton, PG, Miami Heat (ear)
Payton has recently been victim to an ear infection. While he has played since, his numbers will be hampered by the play of Jason Williams who is back from his own “issues.” Williams will be the starter, if for any reason but to lower the average age of the starting lineup from about 65 to 60. The Glove still has some left in the tank, but will likely be used in spot duty for the near term. Of course, if White Chocolate experiences any more setbacks, Payton will get the burn.
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