My Fantasy World...

I have been eliminated from my fantasy football league since the second week of September so this year I decided to join a NBA fantasy league for my first time. Whoa, whoa...don't stop reading yet! I know what you are thinking...the NBA sucks. And you are right. But I figured may be it is a good thing that I hate the league so much...I have no invested interest in any team, player, the 3 teams that don't make the playoffs, the jersey colors, or the always interesting 6th man of the year race. I can choose anyone I want and route for them against any team they are playing! Perfect.

So last night I wrote my 150 dollar check and entered the 14 team league. Oh, did I mention that I drew the number one pick? Here's how the scoring works:

Each week, every team will start:
2G
2F
1C
1U (Utility can be any position)

Head to Head League Scoring:

Each team will start 6 players that will be used to score points every week. We will be using the following 6 categories for scoring:
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Steals
Blocks
Turnovers (minus)

Hopefully that makes sense. So after grabbing a couple slices of pizza and a bottled water I waited for all the bitching to end and the draft to begin. Yes - every fantasy league has bitching and problems. With a league that doesn't take in account field goal percentage, number of three's made, free throws, etc it really just comes down to who is going to pile on the most stats... This leaves 3 obvious choices for my number one pick. King James, Garnett, and Kobe. Now, since I hate Kobe it really came down to Lebron and Garnett. I actually really didn't spend to much time deciding, it simply came down to Garnett is at a new home with 2 other really good players on the team and the much younger Lebron, who is coming off his first run to the Championship game not to mention some dudes named Varejao and Pavlovic are holding out. So I chose Lebron.

Just because I know you are wondering how the rest of the first round went down here it is; Kobe, Garnett, Howard, Nowitski, Arenas, Staudamire, Anthony, Bosh, McGrady, Nash, Yao, Gasol, and Marion....

My strategy for the rest of the draft was to draft starters, and whose names I could pronounce...sorry Andre Igouldala you only fit one of my criterias. My next two picks were Kidd (averages a triple double) and Michael Redd (somebody in Milwaukee has to score)... I really wanted a center here, but I didn't feel there was a big enough name out there. Lucky me Andrew Bogut stuck around for my 4th round pick. Not too shabby if he stays healthy. So now I was only missing a forward to complete my starting line up (minus the flex)...and with Danny Granger, Rip Hamilton, and Ron Arrest still on the board I went with my gut and grabbed Kevin Durant. He will be the go to guy in Seattle... I figure he'll average at least 20 points, 8 boards, 5 assists, a steal and a couple blocks. Now I just need his ankle to get healthy.

I won't bore you with all the details from the draft...Shaq went with pick 93 in round 7 and some dude took Elton Brand, who is out until Feb/March, with the 68th pick in round 5. I pretended it was a stupid pick, but I think it is genius. He will probably win the league.

Oh, and I had the last pick in the draft. Who did I choose? Bobby Simmons. It was either him or Zaza Pachulia.