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Brandon Rush is coming to save the Warriors!

Farhan Latif — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:53:09 +0000

Goodbye Monta Ellis, hello 2008 NCAA Champion Brandon Rush! The Golden State Warriors might have made countless mistakes this offseason (with acquiring players) but they have just stroke GOLD (by trading Louis Amundson for Rush)! Look for this trade to be followed up by Ellis finally getting traded for Josh Smith. Brandon Rush will bring his 6’6 225 pound frame and sharpshoot his way to 15-20 ppg with 45% from the field and continue his 42% shooting from downtown. Stephen Curry, Brandon Rush, Dorell Wright, Josh Smith and David Lee now that is a second round playoff team! Fantasy Basketball Players and Basketball Card Collectors pick up all the Brandon Rush you can now his stock is about to go UP!

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Denver Nuggets Dream Over

Farhan Latif — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:00:41 +0000

The Denver Nuggets Dream is Over. There will no longer be a team full of young B grade players that go two deep at every position. It would have been fun to see if they could have won a championship but as we saw in last year’s playoffs in the clutch they were lacking a go-to scorer, an ala A grade player. They just traded away their backup point guard Raymond Felton to the Portland Trail Blazers for vertern point guard Andre Miller. Felton was a near All-Star in the Eastern Conference (for the New York Knicks) just a few months before being traded to the Nuggets. Now he is going to Portland to start and will put up much better numbers, FANTASY BASKETBALL PLAYERS. Don’t get too excited, he won’t put up the his Knicks numbers but solid numbers nontheless.

Now why would the Nuggets make this trade? The Nuggets wanted to give Ty Lawson his due, his touches, his shots and most importantly they didn’t want Lawson and Felton to kill each other. The interesting thing about this trade is both Felton and Miller have very similar expiring contracts at the end of this up coming season. Also I could easily see the Nuggets trading Miller to a team desperate for a veteran point guard.

The complete trade is the Trail Blazers trading Andre Miller to Denver for Felton, trading Rudy Fernandez and the rights to Finnish guard Petteri Koponen to the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas trading the the No. 26 pick (Jordan Hamilton) to Denver and the No. 57 pick to Portland. While Denver sends Felton to Portland.

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Simmons Vs. Kahn

Farhan Latif — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:55:18 +0000

KAHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN (Minnesota Timberwolves President David Kahn), as Bill Simmons would say, finally had his chance to counter all of the problems Simmons has with him. This is the most gripping interview I have heard in along time. Trust me, if you follow Simmons at all you know that Simmons has a lundry list of problems with Kahn. I still can’t believe Kahn was really willing to do this. It shows Kahn isn’t soft and can take it. To make it even better during the interview Simmons kept going at Kahn with some knockouts. Do yourself and listen to Bill Simmons Interview with David Kahn by clicking this link here. As usual Bill Simmons BS Report (Podcast) knocks it out of the park.

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Jonny (Flynn) Be Good

Farhan Latif — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:18:58 +0000

A few months ago I was talking about the Houston Rockets history of point guard turnover featuring their Trade Deadline Deal of their 2009- 2010′s NBA Most Improved Player, Aaron Brooks, for Goran Dragic. Now they have traded peanuts for Jonny Flynn. Yes, Jonny Flynn, the 6th Pick of the 2009 NBA Draft. The Rockets might have Kyle Lowry and Dragic at point guard but they are both bench players at best while Mr. Flynn is a legit starting point guard. The Rockets have an eye for talent and for acquiring assets with the best advanced metrics of any team in the league.

FANTASY BASKETBALL PLAYERS, he put up 13.5 points, 4.4 assists, 2.4 rebounds, 1 steal, with 42% shooting, 35.8% from downtown and 82.6% from the charity line his rookie year while being lighting fast but the Minnesota Timberwolves didn’t play him last year due to their lack of understanding how to run an NBA team. I honestly can’t even explain how go you from starting Flynn for all 81 games he played for 29 minutes a game to only starting him for 8 games out of 53 games for only 18.5 minutes per game? He is only 22 years old, will only get better plus he’s from New York and even went to Syracuse so he has a deep point guard understanding. Not promising Flynn will be an All-Star but he will be a legit starting point guard by the Trade Deadline.

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Ricky Rubio say’s he is Coming

Farhan Latif — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:44:52 +0000

“I have finally decided to start the journey. It is my dream and I want to fulfill it. After thinking about it a lot, the time has arrived. I think all that I have won here gives me strength to go. Individually, I could have done things better, but it is a team sport and we had success. I am going because I feel prepared. I want to play against the best players in the world. It will mean a change of mentality. Perhaps we won’t be fighting for the title, but we will have other goals. I am willing to do whatever the team needs to win as many games as possible. The game is more physical (in the NBA). I have to hit the weights and get stronger. I like the NBA game as a spectator. It is very attractive and more open.”

Fantasy Basketball Players if your wondering about playing time. “I don’t know what his defined role will be next year. But there’s no question in my mind that he will play next year and he will play significant minutes” is what Minnesota Timberwolves president David Kahn had to say. According to Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus Rubio will average 8.9 points, 4.6 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 1.8 steals per game. Being a basketball fan and/or Fantasy Basketball Player you have to be a fan of those numbers. So watch out, Rubio is coming!

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Action Jackson Coaching Warriors

Farhan Latif — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:20:57 +0000

Mark Jackson is coming West to be the new Head Coach of the Golden State Warriors. My first thoughts are I don’t like him; he is boring, preferred passing to Allan Houston over Latrell Sprewell and is always shooting down our boy Jeff Van Gundy on ABC’s NBA play by play team. On the other hand he is a BIG NAME who knows the game of basketball. He is very intelligent, very hard working, has a very high basketball IQ, one of the best passers in the history of the NBA and a winner. But I do wonder the man has never coached on any level in his life. Does he know how to coach anyone, let alone NBA Players?

Then again point guards turning into head coaches does sound like a good idea to me. At the very least he will go hard on Stephon Curry so Fantasy Basketball Players pick Curry up. I have a feeling if all goes well his assists shall go up from 5.8 to at least 7 if not 8 a game. On the downside he might go too hard on Curry and the Warriors might end up trading him. If that is the case all you can hope for is that Jackson doesn’t drive Curry’s trade value down in the process.

While Jackson is a man of structure I don’t feel he is going to walk in and try and get Monta Ellis traded (due to the fact the Warriors would have a better structured team without him). Never fear rival teams that are dieing to get your hands on Ellis. Jerry West has without saying it directly referenced trading Ellis many times and I don’t feel Jackson will give much resistance just a casual, “let me have until the NBA All-Star Break with both of them”. Unless some how magically Jackon is a coaching savant and figures out how to optimize both their talents in the same back court but I doubt that.

“I am really elated about this opportunity and I’m looking forward to the challenge of building the Warriors into a perennial contender,” Jackson said. Sounds good so far but we shall see. Now more importantly can ABC get freshly retired Shaquille O’Neal to team up with Jeff Van Gundy? I mean ABC see’s how good Charles Barkley does on TNT and they let Shaq do soo many C Grades show’s on their network that it can’t hurt to try.

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Ricky Rubio is Coming

Ed Jones — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:30:28 +0000

We have been told for years of what a superstar Ricky Rubio is suppose to be but now we will finally find out. Rubio is coming to America! Next year look forward to him being the Minnesota Timberwolves point guard. He will be starting by midseason at the lastest is my estimate.

“He’s gotten bigger and he plays outstanding defense, and because he’s a pass-first guard — he’s going to be liked by everybody who plays with him,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.

“He’s a special player and a very good point guard. Very unselfish. He’s got great size, great length. He knows how to play the game very well. He’s got a great feel for the game. He’s just a guy that will get the team going and do what he needs to do.”

I sure hope Pau Gasol is correct with this. I mean you pick a guy 5th in the NBA Draft two seasons ago and he just now is coming over so we shall see. The one thing I do know is I am very excited to see Rubio play the game of basketball next season. Fantasy Basketball Players draft Rubio in the mid rounds, I am telling you if nothing else he will average 8 plus assists a game.

Ed Jones writes exclusively for CloudFantasy. Email him here

T-Mobile’s $50 Unlimited Everything Plan

Farhan Latif — Wed, 25 May 2011 00:25:43 +0000

T-Mobile’s has just launched a $50 Unlimited Voice, Text and Date Plan with no Contracts but I do wonder why did I have to spend so much of my day fighting with T-Mobile in America and the Philippines (on the phone) just to find out you REALLY need to call a T-Mobile Store? Luckly if you go to a T-Mobile Store you can sign up and put down your $50 for the month. Then for every other month you would like service you would just go online and pay another $50 for that month or you can even put down more than $50 and T-Mobile will automatically provide you service for as many months as you paid for. Now that I have made it easy for you, you will no longer have any excuse to miss out the latest happenings in sports, fantasy sports, basketball shoes, sports videos games and most importantly Cloud Fantasy!

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2011 NBA Final Four Tonight

Ed Jones — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:16:11 +0000

I can’t tell you who is going to win this season’s NBA Championship but what I can tell you is who the Final Four will be and not only that but ESPN is showing most of them battling head to head tonight. At 5 PM WST the San Antonio Spurs will be in Miami to take on the Heat. After that the Orlando Magic will be in LA to take on the Lakers at 7:30 PM WST.

As you have guessed the Magic will not make the Eastern Conference Finals this season based on the strength of the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat. I can also tell you the Western Conference might not be a cake walk for the Lakers but they will surely be one of this season’s NBA Finals Representatives while the Eastern Conference Representative is too tough to call. Fantasy Basketball Owners, trust me NBA players know which games are on TV respond accordinlly.

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Heat-Lakers Round II Tonight

Ed Jones — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:33:00 +0000

Chris Bosh is steaming mad, he wants the rock and I feel like dancing because the Miami Heat and LA Lakers are going at again tonight at 4 PM WST on TNT. Everyone will be watching this game especially with the Heat coming off a 5 game losing streak. Expect the Heat to snap out of it and beat up the resurgent Lakers and Fantasy Basketball Players you know LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Bosh will bring their A games tonight so start them over anybody at their positions.

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