Year Round Basketball Thread + NBA Fantasy League

[SirSamuel016]

Seems this post is pinned so here are the 2025/26 award predictions that I've received so far! If you haven't sent already then feel free to shoot me your list!

 

[goldb]

News suggests Wiggins is now fully vaccinated.

 

[M3J]

i always wondered why you hate harden that much? did he make you lose a bet or something?

I hate the way he plays, but hopefully with the new rules we'll see how he does. Also don't like how some players played as well, trying to get fouls from the 3pt line.

Nope clippers ain’t built they ain’t gonna put out lebron AD Russ and the gang lebron is looking for blood I know for a fact if they they all healthy they making them finals

Highly doubt that, given they'd be facing someone who was able to challenge the superteam Warriors until he got hurt, while with the Spurs. Kawhi also led the Raptors to a ring.

But again, it all comes down to PG's level of play.

 

[Newkerzy]

News suggests Wiggins is now fully vaccinated.

From the sounds of it, he took the J&J vaccine......which is—no offense—the crappiest one available since it has the lowest efficacy and effectiveness, especially since Damion Lee took it earlier this year and still got hit hard by the virus. I’m probably going through mental gymnastics right now, but I can’t help but think this is a disingenuous effort in the making to discredit vaccinations down the road from Wiggins. I hope I’m wrong. Who knows what goes on in these guys’ minds.

 

[M3J]

Probably chose J&J because it only requires one shot as opposed to two.

 

[Newkerzy]

This is an interesting tidbit of info on Wiggins:


If his claim is to be believed, it’s not something a physician can’t walk you through to help you decide which medication/vaccine is best for you. I can sympathize with someone hesitating because of bad reactions to certain medicine, but they need to be honest about these sort of things.

Then there’s Wiggins trying religious exemptions.....if anything, it sounds more like he shouldn’t have tried that route if that was his main fear. So really, what gives?

*sigh* I’m just glad the debacle is over. I’m grateful, really.

 

[scav]

ahhh although its only the preseason, the nba is back. waking up and wasting 20mn checking box scores and highlights, i missed that

 

[Hardy]

the nba is back.

With better rules


I wonder if it could even had been called an offensive foul actually, as the new rule states.

 

[goldb]

I wonder if it could even had been called an offensive foul actually, as the new rule states.

I would've said so. You could see he was looking for it. So if it's not a defensive foul, then it's an offensive one, cos you see Steph jump forward and into the defender

 

[Hardy]

I would've said so. You could see he was looking for it. So if it's not a defensive foul, then it's an offensive one, cos you see Steph jump forward and into the defender

Yeah thought the same, but dunno, not like any contact is a foul.

At least it wasn't called, great stuff.

 

[SirSamuel016]

Anyone interested in doing the draft live instead of automatic? Asking now to see if it's possible and what times would suit everyone; if you couldn't make it your picks would still automatically follow the draft priority list you set it up so I think it'd be fun to do it live and see what comes of it!

Whatcha think @Belserion @scav @Hardy @goldb @M3J ?

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@LaGOAT @Mazino @Hakuteiken

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@Sho-West

I hope that's everyone lmao

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With better rules


I wonder if it could even had been called an offensive foul actually, as the new rule states.

Should've been lmao, that shit is hilarious

 

[Sho-West]

I'm cool whenever as long as I know beforehand.

 

[Belserion]

Anyone interested in doing the draft live instead of automatic? Asking now to see if it's possible and what times would suit everyone; if you couldn't make it your picks would still automatically follow the draft priority list you set it up so I think it'd be fun to do it live and see what comes of it!

Whatcha think @Belserion @scav @Hardy @goldb @M3J ?

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@LaGOAT @Mazino @Hakuteiken

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@Sho-West

I hope that's everyone lmao

Let me know when. Hopefully I'm not too busy or I don't forget.

 

[SirSamuel016]

Let me know when. Hopefully I'm not too busy or I don't forget.

Haha if we all decide to go with a live draft I'll make sure to remind you here and on discord :P

 

[M3J]

I'm cool with the live draft

 

[LaGOAT]

Weekends and mondays would be the best for me

 

[Mazino]

Anyone interested in doing the draft live instead of automatic? Asking now to see if it's possible and what times would suit everyone; if you couldn't make it your picks would still automatically follow the draft priority list you set it up so I think it'd be fun to do it live and see what comes of it!

Whatcha think @Belserion @scav @Hardy @goldb @M3J ?

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@LaGOAT @Mazino @Hakuteiken

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@Sho-West

I hope that's everyone lmao

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Should've been lmao, that shit is hilarious

i ll see what i can do

 

[scav]

fantasy reminder: you can't do the pre-draft ranking from the phone app, you need to do it on the website

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@goldb @LaGOAT

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what ya'll believe on westbrook lakers pre-season so far? think he gonna bounce back as soon as regular season start or it's gonna take some months?

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@SirSamuel016 about the live draft for fantasy. we have a solution that work fine for everyone and you wanna switch to another that might not work for everyone. so i have some questions:
- If you do a live draft and i can't join, can you guarrantee (with your 1st round pick on the line) that auto draft gonna pick based on my pre-draft ranking
- If i switch now to live draft, will i have to re-do my pre-draft ranking?

 

[SirSamuel016]

@SirSamuel016 about the live draft for fantasy. we have a solution that work fine for everyone and you wanna switch to another that might not work for everyone. so i have some questions:
- If you do a live draft and i can't join, can you guarrantee (with your 1st round pick on the line) that auto draft gonna pick based on my pre-draft ranking
- If i switch now to live draft, will i have to re-do my pre-draft ranking?

Switching to live draft won't reset your pre-draft ranking, and once you've set it to a live draft you just have to set it to follow your strategy. A big majority seem keen for it and I don't see why we shouldn't give it a go on the weekend unless it's logistically impossible for everyone imo.

 

[Sho-West]

Per ESPN Support: For “Live Online Draft Leagues”, rankings are only used when a team manager doesn’t pick a player within the allotted time and has no players on the pending pick queue.


So it seems auto drafters lose nothing in a live draft even if they don't show up/can't make it, auto-draft can't say the same for people who want to do live.

 

[scav]

aiight lemme know when you decide on a date and time and if everyone is okay with it

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Now that ben saga is over, can't wait for his first game in philly hahaha

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that whole situation illustrate how bad of an agent Rich Paul is