The team also plans to aggressively pursue younger players and draft picks ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline in the wake of Kristaps Porzingis‘ season-ending injury, league sources told ESPN. New York received forward Johnny O’Bryant and second-round draft picks in 2020 and 2021 from Charlotte in exchange for Hernangomez. Knicks general manager Scott Perry says […]
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Prior to this season, Avery Bradley’s career high in rebounds per game was 3.8 during the 2013-14 season. 28 games into this season, he is averaging a whopping 7.4 RPG and ranks 42nd per game on the Player Rater. Do you think this rebounding spike will last? Will he finish the campaign in the top […]
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Nobody is going to laugh at you and question the pick. In fact, there’s a good chance many will agree with it. Jim McCormick made a strong case for drafting Westbrook first, and he even found a way to weave the great Oscar Robertson into the story to support his case. More people play on […]
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Here’s a taste: For the balance of the season, starting with Week 19, only two NBA teams play at least four games every week: the New York Knicks and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Actually, both of these teams play four times in weeks 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23. Then in the H2H final “week” of […]
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The 7-foot-1, 250-pound center went through what he said would be his only pre-draft workout and expressed supreme confidence that the Suns will use the No. 1 pick to select him. “I know I’m going No. 1,” he told reporters. Not that the Suns have assured him of that; he’s just that confident that the […]
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The trade deadline doesn’t have to feature a marquee name to register a fantasy impact. The aftershocks of last season’s deadline are still reverberating at point guard. No Chris Paul– or Russell Westbrook-sized names swapped jerseys. But Goran Dragic, Rajon Rondo, Isaiah Thomas, Brandon Knight, Reggie Jackson and Michael Carter-Williams all headed for new situations […]
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Henderson is set to make $6 million in the final year of his contract. The news comes two days after the team traded guard Lance Stephenson to the Los Angeles Clippers for center Spencer Hawes and forward Matt Barnes. Henderson was selected by Charlotte with the 12th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft and […]
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If you dominated the first week, that does not mean you have the championship locked up. If your team has been a complete disaster, do not panic. We always warn against using small sample sizes, and six days out of a 25-week campaign is just that. Still, questions arise and need to be cleared up. […]
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Good luck! Even if Evan Fournier (probable) plays … Elfrid Payton should be on your list of GPP options. I say GPP and not cash because this is still Scott Skiles’ rotation, and Payton’s had some inconsistent production (four points in just 23 minutes vs. the Pacers on Feb. 21). However, the matchup against the […]
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This week’s contributors are ESPN NBA Insider Kevin Pelton, ESPN Fantasy analyst Joe Kaiser and yours truly, Tom Carpenter. Pelton: It’s a concern. The best predictor of players missing games in the future is the games they’ve missed in the past. Whatever the reason, Davis seems to have a tendency to suffer a variety of […]
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