YO! I hope everyone enjoyed a week off from setting their fantasy lineups, but if you’re anything like me, on Monday I was itching for game action again and felt a void in my heart. Life is simply better when there’s NBA games on at night. We’re coming off of a fairly busy trade deadline which I covered live. If you missed that write-up, check that our here. I covered how you should look at dynasty rankings differently depending on your league, and more specifically, what stage your team is in the last version of these rankings. But, just to cover my bases a bit, you should just remember that ..read more

Yo! One of the most litty times of year has arrived. The NBA trade deadline! Thursday, February 7th @ 3:00pm ET is the deadline. Here I will be posting the trades as they happen and giving my immediate thoughts on what those deals do for fantasy values, both current and dynasty outlooks. So, if you’re addicted to the NBA and fantasy hoops, stay locked on this spot through tomorrow’s deadline. I covered this on Twitter and in my recent Dynasty Fix 1.0, but it is VERY important to know who on your team is your first and second drops. If a trade goes down that makes a player on the wire see immed ..read more

Welcome back. I had to step away from the writing game due to a lack of time a couple years ago. I was asked to post some stuff last year about a week before the season started, and despite not being prepared, I said yes, but I should have passed. Instead I rushed out rankings without doing even close to my normal homework prior. If you know me from my prime writing days, you know half-assing isn’t my thing. I would say I was going to cut back on my word counts a bit and still type up 2000+ words on a damn weekly waiver wire column… So, I admit I was a bit embarrassed by what I put out there a ..read more

My favorite kind of fantasy, dynasty! I especially am a fan of deep dynasty leagues, 20 or 30-team formats. As you will see from my rankings, I like to look ahead. So, if your gameplan day one is to win the first season of your start-up dynasty, you may want to use more of my standard 2017-18 re-draft rankings. I’m not saying going by my dynasty rankings gives you no chance to win now, I just rank the young guns at where I project them to soon be rather than where they may be this current season. You could also go a little bit of a mix of ‘win now’ and ‘future upside’ players where you kind of ..read more

If you’ve been reading my stuff the past few years, then you probably remember two years ago when I made the very unpopular decision to not list complete category killers at all in my pre-draft rankings. So, players like Andre Drummond who are FT% tankers were not even listed, and many weren’t happy about it, but my perspective was, if I wouldn’t personally draft a player in a format regardless of how far they fell, why should I rank them as if I would? While I still feel very strongly about not drafting FT% and FG% killers, I did rank them this year, just lower than you will likely see them f ..read more

The content continues! All of my rankings you will find are directed at 8-categories. I’m just not a supporter of 9-cat leagues that punish the top players because they have the ball more frequently. When I do regrettably join a 9-cat league, I draft as if the turnover category doesn’t even exist, so I would still use this list. The first handful of rounds I am drafting the best players available, and then from that point on, I draft according to the strengths and weaknesses of those players. I am a category punter for sure in H2H formats, because I have seen those super balanced overall teams ..read more

Your boy is back! After a much longer than anticipated break from the fantasy writing game, I am back and feeling refreshed like I was the first day I started this venture. I wish things had happened sooner with the season just two weeks away, but better late than never. And don’t get it twisted, just because I have been away from the keyboard, doesn’t mean that I haven’t been just as tuned in to the NBA in all facets as I have always been. No time to waste, let’s get to work. First, we are going to conquer one of my favorite annual pieces, dynasty rookie rankings. I factor in all things here ..read more

Welcome to the latest edition of the Fantasy Hoops Owner’s Manual. This season I will only be able to produce one article per week, anything else is just an added bonus, but don’t worry because this will be packed with all of your fantasy essentials weekly. I will cover waiver wire targets, streaming options, players on the rise and decline, injury news and then I’ll also add in buy-low and sell-high targets, players you can feel free to drop, and other random notes as seen fit. If you send me a good question on Twitter or in the comments section of this article, I may choose one or two to giv ..read more

We have a nice little six game slate at our disposal tonight with plenty of great options to choose from including Damian Lillard who has been on an absolute tear to start the season and making a very solid claim to why he is the MVP of the league. We have King James and company playing host to the new look Hawks headlined by new big-man Dwight Howard. The young and exciting Timberwolves face off against the worst team in basketball in the Brooklyn Nets who will be without Linsanity to make matters worse. Memphis will be getting their new acquisition from the offseason back in Chandler Parsons ..read more

YO! I hope everyone enjoyed a week off from setting their fantasy lineups, but if you’re anything like me, on Monday I was itching for game action again and felt a void in my heart. Life is simply better when there’s NBA games on at night. We’re coming off of a fairly busy trade deadline which I covered live. If you missed that write-up, check that our here. I covered how you should look at dynasty rankings differently depending on your league, and more specifically, what stage your team is in the last version of these rankings. But, just to cover my bases a bit, you should just remember that ..read more