Fantasy Basketball

Man, I love the NBA trade deadline from a fantasy basketball standpoint. Every trade creates value, or at least, adjusts the value for a player or two. As the dust settles from Thursday's trade deadline, we see many new faces in new places including a former Boston Celtics star as a Los Angeles Laker and a whole slew of new faces surrounding LeBron James in Cleveland. This week also is a short week due to NBA all-star festivities kicking off on Friday. All teams either have one or two games this week so streaming will be…

Blake Griffin Now a Piston That doesn’t sound right, does it? After seven and a half seasons with the Clippers, Blake Griffin will now be playing some DEEEETROIT BASKETBALL. Sorry, I've always loved that chant they do. Early last week, the Clippers sent Griffin to the Pistons for Avery Bradley, Tobias Harris, Boban Marjanovic, and a first-round pick. For Griffin, the trade doesn't move the needle on his fantasy value very much. However, it certainly does for the three players heading to Hollywood in this deal. Other…

Boogie Cousins Done for Season Well, this one hurts. Both physically for DeMarcus Cousins and for tens of thousands of fantasy owners around the world. Cousins was putting up a top-10 fantasy season with averages of 25.2 points, 12.9 rebounds, 5.4 assists, 1.6 steals, 1.6 blocks, and 2.2 3-pointers. Yeah, this one certainly hurts. The cause for Cousins' season-ending is a torn Achilles suffered Friday night. https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/957106960184340480 And the season of injuries continues. Outside of maybe…

So much for that smaller injury report we had last week. This week's report doubled in size, as half of the players in the NBA are nursing some sort of knee injury. It's ridiculous. The entire NBA is turning into 70-year-old men all of a sudden. However, the biggest injury of the bunch is a recurring quadriceps injury for -- yup, you guessed it -- Kawhi Leonard. I should just rename the injury report the Kawhi Leonard report. This is a good week for streaming, as only the Orlando Magic play two games and 13 NBA teams play…

This might have been the shortest injury report I’ve written for this article in months. That’s a good thing, though. It means I can spend time writing about more important things like waiver wire adds and why Isaiah Thomas just isn’t worth it this fantasy season. I’ll get more into that below. This week is a great week for streaming players if you’re into that sort of thing. There’s no random game in London this week, and only two teams play two games. The rest of the league either has three or four games to play. We…