(The start of the NBA season is still six weeks away. But we are already filing Fantasy stories each and every day, with a staff that has tripled to three. For previous entries, click here.) SG Tiers Shooting guards are a prime source of points and threes to fantasy owners, but the most valuable ones do other things well. This is not as strong a position as PG, ranked by tiers earlier. There’s more uncertainty surrounding the very best SG, and the
With the NBA Draft over, evaluations of the decisions were made from general managers, owners, players, writers and even fans. See our exclusive sights and sounds of the Draft here, and check who said what, along with today’s biggest news below: Mo Williams has cleared the path to complete the Lamar Odom deal, and he was never in the way, reported by Ramona Shelburne: “Los Angeles Clippers guard Mo Williams has officially picked up his option for next season, clearing the way
How did your favorite team do in Thursday’s NBA draft? Did they follow form or reach a bit? Did they fill a need or take the best player available? Should they have traded the pick or kept it? Are you tired of players being stashed in Europe? We break it down below, and we are not grading on a curve. Atlanta Hawks: C-plus Picks: John Jenkins (23), Mike Scott (43) The Danny Ferry Era began much as the Rick Sund Era ended: quietly, and still without a
Miami Heat: F Picks: Justin Hamilton (45) With their fingers freshly fitted for rings, the Heat could have rolled the dice on Perry Jones III with the 27th pick. If they wanted another ballhandler behind Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole, Marquis Teague was right there. Or they could have gone big, snagging either Arnett Moultrie or shot-blocking specialist Festus Ezeli. Instead, they made a cost-cutting move by trading the 27th pick to Philadelphia for a future first-rounder and the rights to Hamilton,
In the days leading up to the NBA draft, Joe Kotoch provided Sheridan Hoops with six mock drafts. Not one, not two, not three … six. His final mock for our site arrived Thursday morning and was entirely posted – picks 1 through 60 – about six hours before the first boos rained down on Commissioner David Stern at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. How did Joe do? Pretty damn good, if you ask us. Despite the surprise selection of Michael Kidd-Gilchrist at
Mike Dunlap will be asked to cook the dinner in Charlotte. But he won’t be allowed to shop for the groceries. At least not at the NBA draft. Dunlap, the former St. John’s assistant hired as the new coach of the Charlotte Bobcats, told SheridanHoops he won’t have much input on the team’s No. 2 pick in Thursday’s draft – if it uses the pick at all. “I’m secondary,” Dunlap said in a lengthy telephone interview. “These guys (owner Michael Jordan, president of
Our latest mock draft has some movement at the top. Not at the very top, where Anthony Davis is entrenched and will be going to the New Orleans Hornets. But right below him there has been some serious shuffling. Every player in slots 2 through 7 has changed positions. Some, like North Carolina’s Harrison Barnes, have skyrocketed through good workouts and interviews. Others, like Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger, have plummeted through medical red flags. And there was a trade this week between the
The countdown to the NBA draft is now inside of two weeks. Workouts are taking place at gyms all around the NBA. Promises are being made, trades are being discussed. Some players are seeing their stock rise, others are falling. This going to be a very deep draft, especially at the big man positions, which is quite a contrast to last year when it was more or less a point guard-dominated draft. So as we count down the days until June 28