James Harden gives JJ Hickson the gears

I like James Harden, He's a pretty good scorer. The games he's played without Kevin Durant have been nice. Defense is the only thing keeping him from playing 30+ minutes on most nights and his career per 36's speak for themselves: 15 pts, 1.7 stls, 1.9 3s. Translates nicely into fantasy anyway. If he could somehow just collapse the Swiss economy then he would be rolling in playing time.

What happened Ben Wallace??

Was that real? We both know it'll never happen again. But seriously, can I somehow transfer the value of you hitting a trey to go along with a monstrous double double with 4 assists and 5 steals onto my fantasy football team that suffered a terrible loss at the hands of Aaron Rodgers' questionable rushing decisions this week? Is this blog even about basketball anymore?

Nice line bud, too bad most people had you on they're benches. Wallace should now return to the norm, which isn't pretty, and ranges from about 3-6 pts per game, and the same in boards sadly. Maybe he'll do this again sometime against the Raps, or another brutal defensive team, or maybe not...

Stranger things have happened.

Manu Ginobili Spots UFO: Fantasy Impact

Apparently Manu saw a light in the sky last week and as far as fantasy is concerned, he's been your light in the sky all season. Min, Pts, Stls, 3ptm, Assts, Ft%, Fgm, and Field Goals attempted are all at career highs right now. He's in the starting line-up and Gregg Pop told George Hill to fuck himself. Everything has been going swimmingly in Bat Manus world until this recent spat with the US government attacking Argentina. The video can be seen here. How will Manu respond going forward? Clearly it's shaken his very core, as he's posted 5 december games of 34% shooting from the floor. The preipherals are still sound but a little down from his first 17 games. Will this trend continue? The Spurs are winning games even with Time Duncan on the decline and they lead the western conferance by a game over Denver. The Spurs dominance coupled with Giggles injury history and Matt Bonners desperate attemps to cover the whole thing up make Manu look like a nice sell high candidate in a month or so. As soon as he picks it back up or snaps his ankle clean from his body, whichever comes first. How do you like them apples?

NBA Fantasy: Are these guys real?

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Javale McGee needs to palm that shit!

Baaaahahahahaa! Was the best part the scream?? Was it the the audacity of trying to cup the rock from the ftl? Was it the ball flying wildly off the backboard, reminiscent of the first time you tried a finger-roll on the break? The bear is ashamed. The words epic and fail get tossed around a lot lately, thanks to those fuckin kids and their facebook. I ain't mad at Java though, ranking around the top 50 even though he's playing under 28min a game. Dude's pretty freaky, check these numbers. If I only needed 5.5 inches to touch the rim, life would be different.

Reggie Williams VS. The World

Well, the inconsistent, non-blog worthy, Kris Humphries envying, Don Nelson fearing D-league'r is back, at least for one glorious night. Steph Curr went down early with more ankle troubles, clearing the way for the last bit of Nellie's sanity to fly away like a plastic Safeway bag in Hurricane Katrina style winds. But something else happened, something obscene, and I don't mean Tony Parker's defense. Reggie Williams cracked open the foundation of the earth and reigned fire from the heavens (in Lehman's terms, he drained 8 big ones from downtown and totalled a career high 31 pts on 68.8% shooting). Reggie hates Steph Curr, because he's younger, faster, better and Don Nelson favors him. Williams will always be a cheap source of treys, but as proven last night the situation can easily spiral out of control into the career high realm when Curry goes down and the minutes are there. Unfortunately, starters sidelined or not, Nellie is still bat shit crazy when handing out minutes, but he's got a sweet Bear-Belly, so we'll forgive him.

Do you think he understands a word Donny is saying?

Amar'e Stoudemire is a FREAK!

5 straight games with 30+ pts

Stat's game log is utterly satisfying. Succulent, juicy big man numbers that might peak to a career high this year. He's .7 from achieving career high in points and as well .7 from doing the same on the boards. His defensive peripherals have just about climaxed to a combined 3, and his turnovers are the highest they've ever been, but honestly, raise your hand out there if you haven't punted the TO category. See... everybody's doing it.

Stat was ranked 12 coming into the year by Yahoo!, but I felt good about nabbing him top ten because of the new team / old shot caller setup they got going on in NY. The big guy is certainly panning out in his new 'fantasy heavy' surroundings. Mike D'Antoni must have drafted Felton, Gallinari and Stoudemire for his own Fantasy team this year.

Seriously though, did you check that link for the Knicks cheerleaders?

Old News; Marbury Batshit crazy

Sunday 5 : Beards of the NBA

It's Sunday, were all hung over, you can't spell beard without Bear, Peyton Hillis is more important to Cleveland now than Lebron ever was, I can't stomach anything but potato chips right now and It's looking like I'm just rambling on about the first thoughts that come to my head. Shit, this might not go well.. Lets have a look at some classic beards.

1.James Harden
He's always had a thick beard, thick like Baron's and certainly more stylish than this. The only thing thicker is James' deep threat potential. Like if he potentially hit all 7 treys he attempted Friday vs the Raps rather than just 3. But seriously Nov 20th he started and logged just under 40 min and respectfully buried 6 of 8 from deep, achieving his season high in pts (23).

2.Baron Davis

Shaved his beard (presumably.... maybe allegedly... maybe not at all....definitely not) and flaked out of Fantasy GM's favor this year by missing time with a knee-jerk injury and putting up downright shitty lines thus far.

3. Jamal Crawford
By now, everyone has heard that Joe Johnson will miss 4-6 while on vacation, and I don't really know about you, but I own Joe Joe in multiple leagues and had an aneurysm when I heard. Since then Jamal has increased his playing time by about 4 minutes per game and has still not managed a starting spot, but did grow this sweet beard....

Wait.. thats not a... well never mind. Speaking of chest hair, this will give you some.

4. Drew Gooden
Well, that beard just looks fuckin stupid. Drew Gooden eh... lets see, minimalist PF/C stats and a plane jane excitability factor when watching him. Sigh... I'm just reaching now.

5.Khloe Kardashian
Perhaps the most prominent of all NBA beards, is Lamar Odom's. Gay rumors (and truths) would cripple Lamar, and Fantasy GM's want nothing less than the 15.3 pts, 10.3 rebs, 3.5 asts and combined 2.5 for blk/stl/3ptm. The Lakes are focused on a 3rd straight championship, and that's where Lamar's head needs to be at, so we here at the Bear are giving a last shoutout to possibly the most effective beard in the NBA, Kim Kardashian's less attractive sister. Let's get a quick look at Kim.
NICE!

Flu Ravages the Magic

Bogut, Jennings rejoice, Carter, Lewis respond with 13-38 effort

The South American shitting flu ripped through the magic over the weekend and left Quentin Richardson and Chris Duhon unable to stop a surging Milwaukee Bucs squad on Saturday. As Dwight Howard was driving the porcelain bus, Andrew Bogut beasted on Marcin Gortat to the tune of 31 and 18 with 4 combined steals/blocks. Brandon Jennings pitched in with a 27/7/6 and Rashard Lewis continued his trend of refusing to shoot the ball efficiently from the floor. He's so brave. I've heard the flu is somehow contagious, so I've asked my son to stop starting any Magic player in his Fantasy League until they're healthy again. Seriously though, they should be good to go for weekly line-ups that start on Monday.

Next up we take a look at the espn.com retired talk show host league. Does Montel Williams have what it takes in his match-up with Sally Jessy Rafael? Stay tuned.

BUCK-WILD WEEKEND UPDATE!

Ilysova balls out for Turkey in light of the annual American slaughter, Larry Sanders... really?

Over the last week Milwaukee lames Ersan Ilyasova and rookie Larry Sanders have ranked in the top 50, ahead of fantasy Juggernauts Bron-Bron, Crash and J-Smitz. While this isn't the first time the Turkish Delight has tickled the fantasy community, Larry appeared out of oblivion to post a near pts/rebs/blks triple double (14-10-8) on the Nuggets. TRUE, the p.t. was due to injuries to starting bigmen Bogut and Gooden, but BoGo have proven to be injury riddled invalids throughout thier careers. Ers has put in 14 and 9 with roughly 2 tres 2 stls and a blk on average last week, and is Mos Def a must play as long as he gets minutes. Sadly for Mr. Sanders the Ozzy may return this weekend, making him watchlist material.

In other news, Wesley Mathews continues to punish Nic Batum owners to the tune of 23pts 3tres, 2stl/blks and 50% from the floor as a starter. Those owning Batum should fight the urge to hang themselves with their belt, use a rope so your pants don't fall down.

Elsewhere vanilla bean Josh McRoberts has quietly been roto-balling, over his last 5 games he has amassed 20 blks/stls/tres to just 2 tos. In comparison, J.J. Hickson has 12 blk/stl/tres to 38 turn overs this year.

Tyson Chandler is shooting 67-80% on the season and credits Brian Cardinal as his inspiration.
Andris Biedrins followed up 4 straight double digit reb performances (including a monster 28 and 21 vs the grizz) with 4pts and 3rebs. He's shooting 30% from the line and is wildly inconsistent as is the custom in Latvia.

Joe aka 16 Million is out 4-6 weeks, smile if you own Jamal Crawford.

Lastly, a warning to J.J. Hickson.. I am coming to kill you. I am going to eat your heart with a nice glass of chianti.

Brook Lopez double-doubles in Triple OT

Fantasy Community rejoices!

Brooklyn had yet to achieve a double digit rebound and scoring effort this season. What the fuck? He's ranked about 50-60th best fantasy player depending on who you ask and is making those managers that took Kevin Love, Joakim Noah or Elton Brand as there C 1 look pretty fucking suave. Brookie is still taking about 6 shots a game from the charity stripe on a very efficient 84%, blocking almost 2 shots a game and scoring at a career high clip, so what gives? Why the fuck did it take a triple over time where his main competition for rebounds was Russel Westbrook? Is it Kris Humphries? Is Kris Humphries really that amazing at rebounding? (He is actually! 11.7 boards per game in 12 starts this year. Eat a bag of dicks Reggie Evans!) With Lopez reaching Bargnani esq levels of glass cleaning, the question is whether he will pick it up or drop to 3rd round material in our hearts. Here is a list of SFs out boarding him:

Rudy Gay 6.6
Luol Deng 6.7
Jeff Green 6.7
Martin Lawrence 6.8
Andre Igoudala 6.7
Gerald Wallace 8.0
Carmelo Anthony 8.3