PHILADELPHIA – A successful draft is the essential element to fantasy basketball success. Do you have your own system for ranking players, or do you rely on a Website to do your pre-draft prognosticating? In most standard 8-Category leagues (with free throws made rather than free throw percentage) the consensus “Big Three” were LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Dwight Howard in no particular order. I ranked Dwyane Wade a solid #4 and traded up to secure one from this quartet. Though
By Noelia Roman Lamas BARCELONA — Americans are not the only ones discovering Ricky Rubio. In Spain, he is being re-discovered. Two weeks ago, the Spanish media scarcely mentioned Ricky’s situation when reporting about the end of the NBA lockout and the buildup to the upcoming season. They talked about Pau and Marc Gasol’s futures, Rudy Fernandez getting traded, Serge Ibaka (a member of the Spanish national team) playing for a legitimate championship contender, even Jose Calderon’s prospects with the lowly Toronto Raptors. Ricky was forgotten,
(A note to readers: SheridanHoops is expanding into fantasy basketball coverage, because so many of our readers are hard-core fans of the game, and because so many hard-core fans play fantasy hoops. It’s a natural fit. Several readers applied to fill the role, and I have selected Marc Kravitz of Philadelphia because of his writing talents and his track record in cashing. This season, he was smart enough to select Brandon Jennings. I am struggling in my league, in part
By Terry Lyons of DigitalSportsDesk.com CAMBRIDGE, Mass — “Think-Tanks” abound in the congested enclave located across the Charles River from Boston. The bustling suburb of Cambridge is known for its smarts and, in fact, was named as the fourth “smartest” city by Forbes Magazine a year or two ago. But that survey surely factored in the dim bulbs of Wall Street in the 10001-10005 zip codes, and we know where their smarts got them. Down the road and across the river from
(Readers: When the news came just after 3 a.m. today that the NBA lockout had been settled, there was no live TV coverage of the announcement, no streaming video on the Internet. The only place to get the news was Twitter, through updates from reporters in the room covering the news briefing. In this age of instant communications, it was another fascinating glimpse into the power of the 140-character communication tool.-CS) By Ryan Spoon of www.ryanspoon.com Sports fans got a Black Friday
By Dubi Pick If I were to challenge myself to guess who’s more frustrated about his current situation, recently fired Zalgiris Kaunas head coach Ilias Zouros, or the team’s point guard, Ty Lawson, I’d go with the latter. The Denver Nuggets’ exile blew off a lot of steam lately with a series of aggressive tweets, seemingly indicating he might be on his way home while bashing European basketball. A simple look at Lawson’s last four games clearly shows he hasn’t adjusted to
@SteveNashSteve Nash Thank you to the NBAPA, NBA and our mediator for working hard to find a resolution. I’m optimistic today.
By Paul Shirley Professional Basketball In Europe: Thrown Chairs, Missed Payments, And A Plane Called The Mosquito This summer and fall, as threats of an NBA lockout changed to confirmation of an NBA lockout, players and agents began casting their eyes toward Europe. There was talk of this season as an opportunity for the amalgamate that is the European leagues to chip away at the NBA’s stranglehold on the world’s top basketball talent. This didn’t happen quite as expected, in part because Europe