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Fantasy basketball daily notes for Tuesday: Season highs for Embiid
Top pick Cade Cunningham turned in a career-high 28 points for Detroit in a losing effort, while Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a game-high 30 points in just his second career game with at least 30 points and 10 assists. The Thunder improved to 13-3 in Gilgeous-Alexander’s career when he scores 30 points. “SGA” might […]
Continue readingDeMar DeRozan, short-handed Chicago Bulls hand Brooklyn Nets ‘bad, tough loss’
Down four rotation players due to health and injuries, the Chicago Bulls continued their surprising start to the season by erasing an 11-point third-quarter deficit to give the Nets a stinging 111-107 loss at Barclays Center on Saturday night. The Bulls (16-8) have won three straight games and leave New York having beaten the Knicks […]
Continue readingNew York Knicks upset with officiating in loss to Brooklyn Nets
Randle had 24 points, nine rebounds and eight assists but went to the line only twice the entire game. The Knicks’ star forward initially did not want to talk about the officiating until he was asked whether he was surprised he isn’t getting the benefit of calls usually reserved for a team’s star. “Got to […]
Continue readingNBA preview 2021-22: Power Rankings, projections, breakout stars and storylines for all 30 teams
The 2021-22 NBA season is here! Less than three months ago, Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks were hoisting the Larry O’Brien Trophy after winning Game 6 of the NBA Finals over the Phoenix Suns. After somehow squeezing in the NBA draft, free agency, summer league and preseason into another truncated offseason, the league is […]
Continue readingLowe: Lakers? Warriors? Nets? Ranking the top 10 most fun NBA teams to watch this season
Behold, the top 10 NBA teams in our 10th annual League Pass Rankings. Reminder: These are watchability scores, not power rankings! We score teams, 1-10, in five categories: ZEITGEIST: Do actual humans care about this team? STAR/HIGHLIGHT POTENTIAL: Do you stick around games, at the expense of sleep and loved ones, because one player might […]
Continue readingNBA Power Rankings, preseason edition: Who are the favorites heading into training camp?
Media days kick off Monday, officially ushering in the start of training camps around the NBA. The dust has finally settled from free agency, and September training camp kickoffs will mark the first normal schedule in two years. The biggest news surrounding training camp comes out of Philadelphia, where Ben Simmons has vowed to never […]
Continue readingNBA Power Rankings, post-free-agency edition: How big was the summer shakeup?
The biggest shocker came on draft night, when the Los Angeles Lakers sprung a deal with the Washington Wizards to land former MVP Russell Westbrook. The move created the league’s newest superstar Big Three of Westbrook, LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and the Lakers would later add Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard to the mix. […]
Continue readingNBA free agents: Team-by-team lists for 2022 and 2023
Still, superstars like Bradley Beal, James Harden, Kyrie Irving and Russell Westbrook could become free agents if they don’t sign extensions between now and June. Here’s our team-by-team look at all the players who can and will hit free agency over the next two seasons. Key: Restricted = restricted free agent; player = player option; […]
Continue readingFantasy NBA Daily Notes: Terence Davis among latest hot free-agent pickups
Baseball is back, and so is fantasy! Get the gang back together, or start a new tradition. Join or start a league for free >> Prepare with rankings & analysis >> The second-year wing scored a season-high 27 points last night in a win over the Thunder, good for his fifth 20-point showing of the […]
Continue readingJJ Redick joins Dallas Mavericks after trade, has no timetable for return from heel injury
“The ideal number is the most amount of games possible,” said Redick, who is recovering from a right heel injury that required an injection and last played March 3. “I’m a rhythm player and so I want to be in a good rhythm going into the playoffs.” The Mavericks made a deal just before the […]
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