If the playoffs started today:
1. SAL: 89-41-0
2. PHX: 83-46-1
3. Notorious: 76-50-4
4. chico: 76-53-1
5. Brandon: 70-57-3
6. CWalker: 67-60-3
7. Showtime: 65-62-3
8. PSYCH: 62-65-3
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Top stories of the week:
PSYCH on the rise
After looking like he was going to be one of the worst teams in the league after starting the season 0-6 he suddenly has won 4 in a row currently holding the 8th seed. This past week he edged out a victory against one of his rivals in Showtime. Yes injuries were a factor in this but there are no asterisk or moral victories in fantasy basketball. Speaking of rivals PSYCH now has to get ready for his biggest one in chico who before this week was on a 3 game losing streak.
Kobe for Cousins
Probably will go down as the most shocking trade in quiet some time PSYCH parted ways with the player he seemed inseparable with in Kobe Bryant or Demarcus Cousins. This trade will either be a great long term plan from SAL if Kobe ends up returning and plays like his usual self and the Lakers are in the playoff hunt or the also possible idea of just planning on waiting for Kobe to get healthy and play well enough to just use him as a trading chip right back to the man who traded him. Or this trade could turn out to be one of the blunders of the year giving away one of the better young big men in the league away for a player who ends up being shutdown in a hopeless year for the Lakers. Time will tell but on face value PSYCH may have just made the trade to save his season.
Down goes CP3 down goes KIF?
Easily one of the best players in fantasy basketball Chris Paul suffered a separated shoulder that will put him out for a month and a half which is a good chunk of time which will seem like an eternity for a team that depended on him so heavy. KIF is now faced with the decision to either sit on him and weather the storm for 6 weeks to hope he still is in the playoff picture by then or maybe even consider dealing the star point guard for enough to keep his team in the picture to a team who can afford to wait on him. Either way this is a tough bump in the road for a team that seemed to be on the rise after a few season of mediocrity
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Top 3 Best and worst GM moves of the week
Best:
1. Run N Gun picks up Darren Collison
2. downtown chuckers picks up Kendall Marshall
3. MambaLess trades Kobe for Demarcus Cousins
Worst:
1. PSYCH (SAL) trades for injured Kobe Bryant
2. Not 5, not, 6, not 7 takes Vasquez in trade.
3. Anybody who picked up Lou Williams (me being one of them smh)
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Predictions
GA: 6 Cwalker: 7
Showtime: 5 Notorious: 8
PSYCH: 5 chico: 6
Stax: 3 Aid: 10
Brandon: 11 KIF: 2
IYF: 9 Ben: 4
Best matchup of the week will be: Run N Gun vs PSYCH
Bold Prediction: PSYCH will go into Sunday with the lead in his matchup against chico