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Hot Off the Waivers: Players you can pick up

January 19, 2009 By: Ongai Category: Fantasy Basketball, Hot Off The Waivers

This is my first ever Hot Off the Waivers: Players you can pick up section since I wanted to share with you who can help your team especially if you’re in a deeper league. We all know that being active in checking the waiver wires is a key ingredient to success in the fantasy basketball world. I won’t say much now since some of the other managers in your league might be reading this too and you wouldn’t want them beating you to a player right? So here are the hot pick ups you might want to consider for your fantasy basketball team: (more…)

They could have been Phoenix Suns players

January 15, 2009 By: Ongai Category: Around the NBA, Basketball News, Phoenix Suns, Team Analysis

Rondo in Deng in a Suns uniform..not bad!

Rondo in Deng in a Suns uniform..not bad!

Since the arrival of Steve Nash in the valley of the Suns, Phoenix has been one of the strongest teams in the West. They were well coached under Mike D’Antoni with his run and gun style of play and they had a great core with Steve Nash, Amar’e Stoudemire, Shawn Marion, Raja Bell, Leandro Barbosa and Boris Diaw. Half of that core is gone now and they have a new coach, Terry Porter, for this 2008-2009 NBA season and they also have new faces but not necessarily young legs. In fact, the two players, Shaquille O’neal and Grant Hill, they’ve traded for and signed the past two years are turning 37 this year.

Former MVP Steve Nash will be turning 35 this year, and wouldn’t it be nice if the Phoenix Suns had kept some of their first round draft picks that they’ve traded during draft night the past 4 years? (more…)