As a commissionerly reminder: the league picks back up tomorrow in full force. It's the same matchweek as before the all star break. In preparation for that, a few things:
We had a highly successful, super cool All-Star Game on Sunday featuring all sorts of wacky twists and competitive basketball. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen legal issues arising from our use of Winnie the Pooh as the official mascot, Disney has confiscated the entire telecast. All that remains are mostly indecipherable fragments from our pirate AM radio broadcast, which I've dictated and recorded verbatim in the prior email.
Now that that's out of the way, here are some free agents to watch out for -
Bones Hyland - It cut me deep to drop Bones, but after a falling out with the Nugs he got two weeks of DNPCDs. Now that he's with the Clippers, who just got Russ, I don't even know if he'll play. Wish he'd gone to a shitty team
RJ Hampton - Boy does Detroit have a type. The fun thing is, I think he's a great fit for them the rest of the year. I much prefer him to Corey Joseph, who's been playing entirely too much this year in the absence of Cade
Kris Dunn - After dumping Conley, not replacing him, and kicking their depth to the curb, the Jazz are in pole position to start shutting some guys down and dropping in the standings. 10-day signings like Dunn are great candidates to secure some losses
Pat Bev or Ayo - Brilliant move by the Bulls. "We're not blowing it up, but we will bring in this guy who irritates everyone and will drive a wedge between our stars." Love it. Don't see them dropping Ayo, but I don't know if they can handle Beverley's shit on the bench. One of these guys will become eligible
Meyers Leonard - The only man in the league who was happy about the Kyrie tweet. With Portis still out and Giannis possibly nursing a wrist injury, the Bucks went out and got Leonard after two years of forced retirement. Don't expect him to be great or anything, but he might get some very real minutes
And now, Bonus Stars!
The Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer Bonus Star for Random Sinkholes Popping Up All Over the Place goes to Will. Tough to feel sorry for the guy in first place, but losing Kessler and likely Russ in one fell swoop is gonna bring him back down to Earth a bit
The Good Luck Charm Bonus Star goes to Cody for Russ coming to the Clippers and likely allowing him to hold onto Terance Mann
The Wake Up Bonus Star goes to the trade deadline for shaking us out of our rut and forcing us to drop players and overall re-energize for the final stretch of the year
Happy hunting,
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