Can't believe the season is starting soon!!!

Knicks news: Knicks are finalizing the trade for Chicago Bull Center, Eddie Curry and Antonio Davis with Sweetney, Tim Thomas and few throw-ins, including 1st round draft pick.
Curry missed his last 13 games because of heart condition, but he is worth the risk, specially since most of the cardiologists have given him a clean bill of health.
There finally is something worth following up now. Knicks are a complete team, just lacking a little defensive push. I am not saying they are a championship team, but they are young and heading in the right direction.

Where are the ballers??

Hey guys,
I am sorry that I am unable to participate as much as I would like to in this fantasy league, however, I'm trying my best to keep up with you and especially being able to avoid disastrous trades which some of you have been proposing :).

On a completely unrelated topic, I am wondering if you all (those in this league) have sent money to kg4mvp. It would be wonderful if we all can make the pledge with that money to some social cause in Nepal. Of course, it should be entirely voluntary but if I win the league, I'd like to donate whatever money is collected to an organization like HelpNepal.Org. Well at least for me, this gives me an incentive to participate in this league. Are there any other volunteers?

Back to the league, am I playing my rookie season all rite? :P

Right on Oys.
Actually that was what I wrote to KG4MVP in the letter that I sent along with my money. Although, I might not win at the end (take a look @ my shitty roster), if I do it should goto charity.

It's funny that I lost to 5 categories this week and 4 of them were the lowest in the league. Other than Thud, I have my best players ranked to the lowest ranking (20 for Pierce) in the ranking posted above. And yet, I still ended up in the top half of the league. Goes on to tell you that u could still be in a good standing even when you have a crappy team. And no, I am not winning those crappy categories like FG% and FT%.

AX,
I thought u WERE a Knicks fan..come on now brother!!

If you ask me I don't like to see Nate Robinson in the floor at all. I get nervous when the play clock is ticking and the ball is in either Nate's hand or Crawford's hand, although both have made big shots lately.
Crawford is plain weak. He should've learned something from Marbury, how to protect a ball when you are driving in the paint. He just can't do that. Nate is simply too short. If his teammates aren't drawing doubleteam, he just cannot do anything as his shots get blocked easily. Larry uses him as he is a hardworker and also provides the flash (remember John Stark) that a team needs when they are going down.

Hail to Channing Frye, he is the lone star right now. He can be big, watchout. For last few years we have been lucky in the draft, although our trades have been a different story.

hey good idea Oys chill....since i'm in the 1st place in our leage and if i finish it like it is...i would definitely do something of that sort.

and i think i read somewhere above in the thread that since this is suppose to be nba 06 we shouldn't spend too much time talking about our fantasy league here. not that we can't but i think we've got a pretty good and often discussions going about our league in the yahoo league page itself. but then agian since most of us who write and read in this thread are in the league...so why not :p

so guys back to the real nba talk...who are your favorites so far:

Eastern Conference Champ (Regular Season):
Western Conference Champ (Regular Season):
Defensive Player of the Year:
Offensive Player of the Year:
Rookie of the Year:
6th Man of the Year:
Most Improved Player:
MVP:
NBA 05-06 Champ:


Here are my picks:

Eastern Conference Champ (Regular Season): Detroit
Western Conference Champ (Regular Season): San Antonio
Defensive Player of the Year: Ron Artest
Offensive Player of the Year: Allen Iverson (will be a real close one against Lebron James)
Rookie of the Year: Chris Paul
6th Man of the Year: Michael Finley
Most Improved Player: Pau Gasol (not that he was ever bad but this year he's been simply awesome)
MVP: Lebron James (Kobe has a shot if the Lakers can make it to the playoff)
NBA 05-06 Champ: Detroit Pistons (Flip is a great offensive mind and the pistons are made to play defensive...perfect match made in heaven)

this is all for now...see what u guys think.

c-yas

Seems like some hackers screwed the system in Yahoo Fantasy leagues.
Are u guys missing ur team as well?
Hope they have good backups.

Same here....I don't see my team either.

Eastern Conference Champ (Regular Season): Pistons
Western Conference Champ (Regular Season): Spurs
Defensive Player of the Year: Artest
Offensive Player of the Year: Kobe Bryant
Rookie of the Year: Chris Paul
6th Man of the Year: Troy Hudson( Ke garne Pujan bro my team is named after him after all, hehe)
Most Improved Player: Not me, but seriously, no clue
MVP: Allen Iverson
NBA 05-06 Champ: Pistons

Same here, it seems like when you go to the main fantasy NBA page, it takes you to the 04-05 season, if anyone remembers our last years leage ID, may be we can look at that, at least it will give me some solace :)

Comments about this year prediction later.

commish, wots going on??? Our last year league ID was 223709.I hope it's not only our league having this problem....

good idea oys bru?. If I win the prize money, i be sendint he money to the high school i attended back in Narayangarh

DWI, I used to like Knicks when Gorilla dai was the General.... After his departure, I lost all the hope in that team so I decided to jump to TD's ship :=) can you name the player who Knicks got in return for Gorilla dai??? I don?t think so :=) YUP the Knicks mgmt was that inept, they still are and will be till Dolan guys are around?... Fire the GM, get rid off the most overpaid Coach in the league and trade the Best Point Guard in the league? that may help that team ;=)

hukka, did ya check my roster??? Your picks for MVP, MIP and Rookie of the Year belong to my team :=) and if Camby can stay healthy, he may end up winning the Defensive player of the year Award as well? are ya saying I got the best team :p

Here are my picks (runner up included)

Eastern Conference Champ (Regular Season):
Detroit Pistons (winner)
Indian Pacers (runner up)

Western Conference Champ (Regular Season):
San Antonio Spurs (winner)
Dallas Mavs (runner up)

Defensive Player of the Year:
Marcus Camby (Winner)
Ron Artest (runner up)

Offensive Player of the Year:
Kobe Bryant (Winner)
Allen Iverson (runner up)

Rookie of the Year:
Chris Paul (winner)
Charlie Villanueva (runner up)

6th Man of the Year:
Tonie Walker (winner)
Derek Anderson (runner up)

Most Improved Player:
T J Ford (winner) ? is he eligible for this award?
Smush Parker (runner up)

MVP:
Tim Duncan (Winner)
Dirk Nowtizki (runner up)

NBA 05-06 Champ:
San Antonio Spurs

Coach of the Year:
Mike Dunleavy (winner)
Mike Montgomery (runner up)

are LA Clippers for real???

Go SPURS go!!!

Well, it seems like Yahoo is doing its server maintenance and hoping the site would be back by later today. If it doesn't I am not sure how the site would handle today's stat, especially for those who wait until the last moment to strategically line up their players :)

damn guys whats up with yahoo fantasy page??? i don't think its just our league, cause i am in 2 other leagues with folks from my work and i can't access to them either. actually can't access to any fantasy sprots page cause im in couple fantasy football as well. so i hope yahoo will bring it up soon.

ax bro...ya i know your roster have 3 of my favorites of the year and u do have some really good superstars...so i will give u that much. but im sure u've seen by now that you win fantasy match up by winning the junk category like FG FT and turnover battle...and the more superstars u have in ur team the less advantage u have in winning these 3 decisive category...so i hope u're taking a note and thinking of trading a few :p

unknow, you're right about hudson..he has just as much chance of winning it as anyone else. i guess the 6th man award always depends on how good the team does, so if the wolves start making some noise...he might win. and whats up with both u and ax not even mention my boy lebron in any of your awards?? if im biased to include him in mine than u guys are just as bias to not include him in your picks :D

la see ya fellas...hope our league will be up and running soon.

hukka, camby is avail for the right price :=)

I feel like something is missing w/o having access to nepali NBA fantasy league :=)
here's something ya may want to read about sports fantasy league online:
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Fantasy_leagues.pdf

The most surprising stat i found was the avg income for the fantasy league participants.

thanks AX bro for the link...it was an interesting read. and im encouraged to read about the average income of those playing fantasy sports online...because if u are an above average fantasy sports player, which i consider myself to be, that should correlate into above average household income as well :p

and you're right man...with fantasy page up, time goes by pretty quick at work so without it has felt like a real loooong day.

i think we should all send emails to yahoo and ask "is it up yet"....kinda like that verizon dude with "can u hear me now"

.p.s. ax i don't think i can afford camby for the price u r looking for. it's tough to trade these big name guys. but just to throw something at ya...how about joe johnson and antoine walker for camby and someone else that u might drop if u take my deal.

it's working now :=) i don't see my posting that was directed to celts bro :D:D was giving him CWEBB history... i am not going to rewrite again... i talked about FAB FIVE, NCAA tournament timeout, Orlando trade, Warriors, Nelson, Wizards lineup Howard + Wallace... I was sure he knew about cwebb and the kings.....

bro, if ya can sweeten the deal including Bosh, I be more than happy to part with the 2nd best player in the league today ;) I think he is the MVP so far, what you say?

yuppieeeee yahoo is back!!!

ax bro tell u what...if u want bosh you're gonna have to sweeten the deal yourself. since camby huge injury risk based on his history. how about u include gasol? bosh and walker for camby and gasol? sounds fair enough? :p

even if u accept, bosh will still be hard to let go...he's been nothing less of spectacular so far this year and i don't see why he won't continue to get even better.

week 5 stat.....

Ax, what a week for you!!! I have never had a 8-1 week. You really had him up against the wall pretty much all week.

Finally, its good to seem KG winning some ball games and getting some respect in the conference.

Here is the team status as of the 5th week, quite a bit of movers and shakers this week.
BTW, I was wondering where all of the weekly status I and Ax have been posting here for previous weeks. Picture posting now banned in Sajha???

KG4MVP, here's the scary thing my team is not in full strength. Ak47 is coming off the bench and Boozer is not playing at all. If i were to play week last week, I would have won 5-3-1 :D:D

I am looking forward to next week matchup against hukka_nepali. So far hukka has injury free roster and i hope it will remain the same till next week ;) we will know who has the best team next week :D:D didn't mean to offend other teams :=)

DWI keep up the good work. ya did very well.... one suggestion to ya, don't try to change the players too much, I believe you only get 64(???) moves. Correct me if i am wrong commish.... I know i needa do the same :=)

celts bru you a NONFACTOR??? now i know ya are a football guy :p:p

KG4MVP, i think admin did it purposely..... joke garya feri... w/o sajha this league won't be possible so i encourage my fellow mgrs (can we call ourselves???) to contribute money to sajha