State Of The State

I know most of you are clamoring for an update on how my NFBKC team (the one I drafted with Sasha) is doing. For starters, we had some bad news last night when we learned our best player to date, Kevin Durant, would be scratched. And Russell Westbrook losing his job to James Harden, as well as Khris Middleton getting capped at 20 minutes per game (and leaving with an injury yesterday) isn’t helping.

But Sasha insisted we draft 35-YO Brook Lopez, coming off a career year, in the sixth round (something that seemed foolish to me) and so far that and other moves have panned out. Last night Lopez had 39 points on 14-of-17 shooting, four threes, three blocks, two steals and five rebounds. Getting a center who averages two threes and three blocks who shoots north of 80 percent from the line is gold. Our other center, Myles Turner, had five blocks, a three, 23 points and 10 rebounds himself. Knock on wood, I remember reading he always gets hurt.

So, at the risk of jinxing it, here are the standings through the first month of the year:

Our weakest category by far is assists, so if you have any waiver wire suggestions let me know. It’s a pretty deep league (12 teams, 16 players per), so for example we have point guards Kyle Lowry and Cole Anthony already and are waiting on Bradley Beal to come back in a couple weeks hopefully. We even have Killian Hayes on the bench who I plan to cut this week (to give you an idea of how deep it is.)