TOO MANY THREE-POINTERS: Love has shot more and more three-pointers in every season. Last season, 41.2% of his shots were three-pointers. His percentage of three-pointers has dramatically increased in every season. A corresponding statistic is that his average shot distance has increased in every season as well, and his more than doubled what it was in his rookie season. [Read more…]
There were only six MLB games on Thursday evening and two were postponed. Most DFS players were aware of the Blue Jays at Yankees cancellation in time to adjust their lineups. However, anyone who used Cubs — like me — or Phillies got a zero score. Congratulations if you avoided both rainouts, especially if you also stacked the Reds. [Read more…]
Dwyane Wade’s PER and Offensive Reb Pct have declined in 3 straight seasons. His effective field goal percentage took a 12.3% nosedive from the previous season. Defensively, his block and steal rates were the lowest of his career. Can Wade bounce back from this decline and return to an elite level or will we continue to see Wade fade? [Read more…]
NBA players and celebrity figures in general have long been mimicked by lookalikes from all around the world, sometimes intentionally and sometimes innocently. Most of the time, these supposed lookalikes pull off harmless pranks as they pretend to be the star of whoever a random fan believes them to be (usually because the fan gets a random person confused with a celebrity) and that’s precisely what a young man appears to have done with a young woman who thought she was taking a
PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” -Samuel Johnson [Read more…]
There are two afternoon ballgames at 3:40 Eastern, with stellar pitching available at a high price in Early and All-Day contests at DraftKings. [Read more…]
Happy 41st birthday to Ben Wallace, the best undrafted player in NBA history. Wallace is one of three undrafted players in NBA history to make an All-Star team (Brad Miller, John Starks). Wallace made four All-Star teams, making him the most decorated undrafted player ever (Miller – 2, Starks – 1). [Read more…]
With the new NBA season less than two months away, most players around the league are slowly but surely starting to prepare both physically and mentally for training camp and the upcoming grind. For Draymond Green and Marreese Speights of the Golden State Warriors, there is still plenty of time to admire what they were able to accomplish last season. Speights mentioned a couple of weeks ago what players on other teams can expect from Green next season thanks to the fact that