With a 35-2 record and perfect so far at home, the Golden State Warriors are double-digit favorites to beat Miami tonight. The champs just swept a three-game road trip averaging over 120 points. [Read more…]
There’s a 10-game NBA slate on Monday, topped (for daily fantasy purposes) by Sacramento visiting Oklahoma City. DraftKings features the $450K Tipoff Special, an enormous contest that new DK users can enter for free, with a minimum $5 deposit. For the rest of us, it’s only three bucks per team. [Read more…]
When asked recently about the trade value of Brooklyn Nets guard Joe Johnson, one Western Conference scout summed it up in six brutally painful words: “He makes a lot of money.” After 15 NBA seasons and seven All-Star appearances, the 34-year-old Johnson has turned from a very good basketball player into just another contract a team can’t wait to get off its books. Mercifully for Brooklyn, Johnson’s contract expires at the end of this season. When it’s all said and done in Brooklyn—
As expected, it was impossible to run up a huge score at DraftKings on Tuesday. Congratulations to “Syracuse Slappers” on winning $50,000 for three bucks, with only 311.5 FPTS, which is rarely good enough for top spot. [Read more…]
Tonight’s four NBA games aren’t all equal. In real life, the Hawks at Oklahoma City and the Clippers in Chicago are far more significant. [Read more…]
All-Day NBA contests at DraftKings close at 3:30 Eastern when the Clippers host Toronto. Jonas Valanciunas (hand) is out, so Bismack Biyombo $3800 will probably start against DeAndre Jordan $7300 and the gap between Blake Griffin $9500 and Luis Scola $4500 at PF is just as wide. [Read more…]
BROOKLYN — If there was such thing as NBA purgatory, that would be where the Brooklyn Nets franchise is currently situated. At 0-4 with no first round pick next June (and no control of any first round pick until 2019), no hope for a real superstar on the roster until at least the summer and a lack of talent to compete in the Eastern Conference, it looks more likely by the day that this will be a painful lost season for
Centers are considered a dying breed in today’s NBA. More teams are playing small ball than ever before with a focus on pushing the tempo and improving floor spacing. Heck, the league even removed the center position from the All-Star ballot in 2012. However, as you will see by the depth in our center rankings and the names not on the list, the demise of the position is a premature misconception. You won’t find two former All-Stars and Defensive Player of the