Friday was the final night of exhibition games — hooray! — and this is a huge weekend for fantasy basketball drafts. We’ll take a quick look here at all the results, along with what we learned, if anything. Later today, around 2:00, be sure to return for the debut of our Week Ahead column by Jeff Nichols. Every Saturday afternoon, Jeff — the master strategist behind our Fantasy Basketball Primer — will review the previous week (today, the entire preseason) and
When you want to hear a candid opinion about any given subject, there may not be a better NBA personnel to listen to than Sir Charles Barkley. The Van Gundy brothers are up there as well, but Barkley just has a way of grabbing you by the balls about what he has to say. He will be honest about anyone, even if it’s about his best friend Michael Jordan, who – as you’ll find out below – doesn’t exactly appreciate the
Hurricanes are bad business. Los Angeles Lakers All-Star power forward Pau Gasol understands as much. That is why he sent out the following tweet, even from the other side of the country—which will go completely unaffected by Hurricane Sandy.
I need to limit the reasons to feel positive about the Lakers to just five? Well now I’m simply going to feel as if I’m short-changing them. Anyways, all narcissistic, ego-fueling Lakers comments aside, there are many reasons to look at the upcoming NBA season as one that could end with a parade running through downtown Los Angeles. But if there’s anything we’ve learned from professional sports, it’s that things rarely turn out the way you expect. There are plenty of reasons why the
On Wednesday night, next door to my hometown of Hempstead, NY, I took in the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Knicks battle at Nassau Coliseum. It ended up being an overtime thriller. Ultimately, the game didn’t count for anything, but it may have been a preview of what’s to come when the two teams square off on Nov. 1 when the Knicks will play the Nets in the first ever NBA regular season game in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. As far as
This is the final night of exhibition games, and kicks off a huge weekend for fantasy basketball drafts. We hope the last six weeks of lists, opinions and advice has helped you prepare and that there’s a championship in your future. My draft tonight is in a 20-team keeper league, where I was able to collect three “extra” draft picks in trades last season. Each team keeps four players, so the draft begins in the fifth round, and Anthony Davis will
Roy Hibbert has been on a mission to get Korean rap sensation Psy to watch and respond to his Gangnam Style video, or Gangnam Roy, as he likes to call it. In case you missed it, here’s the video of Hibbert displaying his horsey dance skills: Just how badly does the center want his video to be seen by Psy? The following should give you an idea:
