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Fantasy NBA Daily Notes: Detroit welcomes back Mr. January
The most important fantasy angle for Detroit is almost surely the promising return of Reggie Jackson, who remains widely available in ESPN leagues due largely to the fact he has missed 44 games this year with a back injury. Jackson poured in a season-high 23 points last night in just his sixth game of the […]
Continue readingFantasy NBA Daily Notes: Young helps Hawks move forward
Young was stellar in the first half, scoring 21 points and recording 10 assists en route to his eighth game with at least 40 points this season. That’s second-most in the NBA. Young got some help from some emerging teammates, as rookies De’Andre Hunter, Cam Reddish, and Bruno Fernando all proved effective in the contest. […]
Continue readingReggie Jackson among top fantasy basketball free-agent finds
A willingness to entertain competition for the last few spots on your fantasy hoops roster can prove rewarding. When curating this fluid collective of statistical contributors, it helps to consider your end-of-bench players in direct competition with the talent floating in free agency. The goal of this weekly series is to identify players available in […]
Continue readingCan the Celtics maintain the magic they found against the Lakers?
The game opened with LeBron James hitting JaVale McGee on an alley-oop from half court, followed by an ugly Jayson Tatum drive. Then came a poor Boston defensive rotation, leading to Gordon Hayward’s foul of Danny Green on a made 3-pointer. After a Kemba Walker drive was swatted away, Anthony Davis caught a lob at […]
Continue readingDavis Bertans among top fantasy basketball free-agent finds
The goal of this weekly series is to identify players available in at least half of ESPN leagues at each position. Some nominations are specialists capable of helping in one or two categories, while others deliver more diverse and important statistical offerings. In the breakdowns below, I’ve ordered players at each position with the priority […]
Continue readingWith Joel Embiid out, Ben Simmons, Al Horford and the 76ers still out-sized the Celtics
Those games, though, featured superstar center Joel Embiid, one of the league’s biggest and heaviest objects. Boston had been helpless to stop him. But Embiid wasn’t on the court Thursday night. Instead, he was on his way to New York, where he’ll have surgery on his dislocated left ring finger Friday. So, with Embiid out […]
Continue readingHow the NBA’s race for the 2-seed in the East playoffs will be decided
“They’re gonna be impactful,” Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse said, hours before his team won one of these games against the Boston Celtics in late December. “They’re really going to become impactful later on in the year, when you look back. “There’s going to be jockeying for position, there’s no doubt about it.” On Thursday, […]
Continue readingCeltics’ Kemba Walker ejected for first time in NBA career
“I thought I was being nice,” Walker said with a smile afterward. “I thought the ref missed the call. I voiced my opinion, and the rest is history.” The call Walker was referring to was a bone-crunching moving screen set on him by Spurs big man LaMarcus Aldridge — one that sent Walker flying to […]
Continue readingCeltics’ Enes Kanter to play in Toronto after issues resolved
Kanter wrote an editorial in Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper in which he announced he would be able to play in the game after fears for his safety had been resolved. “I want to thank Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, U.S. and Canadian law enforcement, U.S. Senator Ed Markey, the Celtics, the NBA and my […]
Continue readingNBA free agents: Team-by-team lists for 2020 and 2021
Nearly half the league hit free agency in 2019. Plenty of stars changed teams, including Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Kawhi Leonard, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker. The 2020 class won’t have the same star power or the same amount of cap space available, but 2021 will be absolutely loaded. Here’s our team-by-team look at all […]
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