Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet’s two-day NBA playoff fantasy leagues Today’s Spin features a tale of two triumphs, which may just get y’all to start taking more of my advice. Two days into the new week, the profit is at $35. I won $50 for finishing 8th in an $11 entry fee tournament for Monday and Tuesday’s games, along with $10 for finishing 38th with the same lineup in a $2 entry fee contest.
I caught some grief from all corners today after news came out that I was the only voter among 125 who had Blake Griffin second, behind Kevin Durant and ahead of LeBron James, in the NBA’s Most Valuable Player voting. Quite frankly, I am stunned I was the only one. Doc Rivers made the case in April that Griffin was the better No. 2 candidate, and that was something I decided, too, over the final two months of the season — a time
No surprise that Kevin Durant is the NBA’s MVP. Should we be surprised that he was not unanimous? That was a question I posed in the latter editions of the MVP rankings I published every Wednesday during the regular season, and in one of the final versions I wrote that some members of the South Florida media would likely vote for LeBron James, denying Durant a unanimous vote. Turns out that six first-place votes were cast for James — but none from South
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet’s two-day NBA playoff fantasy leagues Please don’t tell me you got fooled by Roy Hibbert’s Game 7. One of us is enough. Yes, I took the big stiff and put $2 on the possibility that his disappearing act in the first round (along with the final 2 months of the season) was a mirage, and that $2 is now dead money. Hey, it’s only $2. I played three different teams yesterday
You want gambling advice? Check out my picks for the four second-round NBA playoff series, and then go out and bet the opposite. OK, maybe that is overstating it. But I did not have a great first round from a prognosticator standpoint, failing to hit on my upset picks of the Grizzlies over the Thunder and the Warriors over the Clippers. Close, but not quite. The best pickers we had in the first round were Peter May and Shlomo Sprung, although Danny Schayes
The nice thing about the voting for NBA awards this season is that we don’t always have to concentrate on the winner, we can concentrate on the voters at times, too. Like when the news of who won is not all that unexpected. The most important thing to know is that Michael Carter-Williams of the Philadelphia 76ers won the award with 104 of 124 first-place votes, including mine. Victor Oladipo of the Orlando Magic was second, picking up 16 first-place votes; and Trey
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet’s two-day NBA playoff fantasy leagues So my second week as a fantasy writer ended with a profit of more than $300. We build on that this week and finish with a four-figure withdrawal, correct? Could have gotten there Sunday if not for my selection of Alan Anderson on one team and Tiago Splitter on another. Finished 51st and 78th out of 330 with lineups that included those “value picks”
We almost got to hear Donald Sterling’s side of the story. Almost. TMZ.com is reporting that Sterling bailed out of a planned interview with ABC News and Barbara Walters, deciding he was not prepared, along with a second interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The woman at the center of the scandal surrounding him, V. Stiviano, kept up her side of the bargain and sat with the woman once called BabaWaWa. “I think he feels really alone, Now really supported by those around