Dirk Nowitzki

Fantasy Basketball Review: Week 2 (11-3 - 11-9)

Two weeks in and where do you stand? Don’t sweat it, this is a marathon, not a sprint. What I haven’t seen much of this season is a breakout performer. It just seems the usual suspects are the ones who are the best, which is what is supposed to happen. We will see though, we [...]

TGIF: Sports of Boston Basketball Draft

Welcome to the inaugural Sports of Boston Friends and Family Basketball league draft. Like our previous fantasy leagues, we use Yahoo! Fantasy Sports. This is a 12-team league and we set up the scoring categories as such:

FG%
FT%
3PTM
PTS
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO

The roster spots contain slots for: PG,SG,G,SF,PF,F,C,Util,Util,Util, and three bench spots.
The league members consist of SoB contributers of the [...]

Celtics Four-Point Play 3-26

In this edition of the Four-Point Play, I’ll take a look at the KG winning Player of the Week, the Garden’s identity crisis, the “retirement” of Chris Webber, and the effect of Dirk Nowitzki’s injury on the rest of the NBA.
1. Earlier this week, Kevin Garnett was named the Eastern Conference player of the week [...]

Celtics Messed With Texas, and Won

When the season began, the mood surrounding the Celtics was pure optimism. We all knew the team had gotten better with acquisitions of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Eddie House, James Posey, and on and on and on. What we couldn’t have imagined was the Celtics going 8-0 against the Lakers, Mavrericks, Rockets, and Spurs.
The final [...]

Celts Improve to 12-0 Against West

The C’s managed to defeat the Dallas Mavericks 96-90 without the services of Kevin Garnett, who missed the game with a strained abdominal muscle. Ray Allen and Paul Pierce stepped up big to pick up most of the slack, scoring 26 apiece on the same day that Pierce was named to the All-Star team as [...]