2030 170 Pistons SF LeBron James retires
2030 170 Celtics SF Kevin Durant retires
2030 170 Hawks PG Kyrie Irving retires
2030 170 SuperSonics C Tacko Fall retires
2030 170 Jazz SF Nikola Jokic retires
2030 170 76ers C Jusuf Nurkic retires
2030 170 Celtics SG Buddy Hield retires
2030 170 Hawks PG...
We’re bored again on a plane. Feels like a common sentiment with my articles. Wes came up with the idea for me to type a season preview and here we are.
Boston Celtics
Projected Record: 45-37
Key Players: Crawford, George, Beasley
Assets to Improve: Gary Harris, 5 of next 6 BOS FRP
Idea for a...
New Raptors front court with Steven Adams and DeAndre Jordan coming in in the top 5! Andris Biedrins, former Magician, leads the crew by getting to the over 2/3 of his FGA's. Leon Powe is an available big who is clearly useful checking in at 8!
I thought to myself, man, that’s a lot of draft picks I better churn some RP. Then I realized Jeremy Woo circa 2016 can join me for the lulz. We can now enjoy 2016 super scout Jeremy Woo’s SLNified draft grades as well as mine:
A bunch of teams with cap space, not a bunch of surefire stars. I'm only writing up the bigger names right now. Let me know what you think and if I am being too generous. Let's get right into it:
Nuggets sign Monta Ellis
7 years -- $168,437,500
Grade: B
After a championship, Kipke needed to...
I have a flight from Cleveland to Philly then a drive to DC tonight, and was chatting with Merv about RP. He said to write something so here I am. Shoutout to Merv. Shoutout to all other SLN content creators, no not you Jared McCain you tiktok slut.
Happy Fourth of July, I hope everyone had a great holiday and reminded themselves of how fucking sick it is to not be European. Imagine blowing a 13 colony lead. Embarrassing.
I think our commissioner got tired of seeing all of the real drafts,...
I'm on vacation but a certain person who I talk to every day nagged me to post a mock draft. Here it is.
This is a fun draft and pretty open for interpretation in terms of what to prioritize. Excited to see how this goes. Hope we can start it Friday! Still the lotto and some tiebreakers to run but...
I have 3 first round picks. So this could be my real rankings or typical SLN propaganda. We’ll never know! 😶🌫️
Point Guard
1. Jamal Murray
Feels like all of the can play PG stip guys turn out really good except for Milos Teodosic, but hey, he’s good at tanking. Jamal looks like he’ll be a total...
Box scores and DCs: sharing my analysis spreadsheet for everyone to use
Everyone knows that one of the most critical parts of the game is optimizing your team’s DC. Knowing the right DC to use requires understanding the input variables (DC rotation and settings) to drive the desired output...
By Steven “The Soul of Tony Yayo is Trapped Inside Me, Free Me From This Wretched Imprecation” Tsai
The Reaper is indiscriminate in its brutality. It gets what it wants — randomized, entropic cruelty that rips across everything we know. It’s life’s great equalizer, as well as its perpetual...
2015 has been all over the place, but I wanted to do a check-in now that we're two-thirds of the way through the regular season. I notice there are no teams with fewer than 11 TOs, there's usually a couple in the 10's. Only one team ( Nuggets ) has a positive double-digit point differential. And in...
Ever wondered what would happen if you switched places with an alternate reality's version of yourself? Well some players in SLN and the NBA got to do just that, it worked for some...others not so much. Let's dive into 10 players, 5 of the best SLN outcomes vs real life and 5 of the worst. Since...
The popular SLN GMs as ____ series returns. I got really bored today and needed a break so I decided to write this, which is an idea that has been marinating for a while. Enjoy!
Ashes - The Watcher
Quietly, the Watcher sits and observes from afar, only involving himself when the universe...
Background: When David (Kipke to the SLN layman) told me about the league and various strategies, he mentioned that Nav ran his SLOR team like a hedge fund. He constantly pushed the cap and paid the luxury tax (they had different hard cap rules) and...
TL; DR: More free RP for a quick post! Prob wait til after FA to fill it out.
In addition to Team Awards, GMs can earn a quick and dirty 125RP by replying in this thread and filling out the below questionnaire - not required, but why not? Copy down the questions in a reply post and fill 'em out....
Every year, every GM's got his studs and it's duds, his craftiest moves and most embarrassing flops. For 75RPs, fill out the answers to the following questions and post it in the thread - think of these as your...
Let’s begin by addressing the elephant in the room, because the elephant is air-dropping nudes to the rest of the room and shamelessly chortling. How did Jake attach such detailed diagrams of...
Ni hao. After a 1 year hiatus I am back with team stats. Some quick takeaways:
Pistons way underperformed their point differential. Wild for a team with 4.5 ppg more than opponents to be only 4 games over .500
Spurs also seem way better than their record suggests (especially taking into account...
Taking a break from IRL mock drafting to make you guys a fake mock draft (mock mock draft?) — a reminder that this board is chock full of humor so it should get extra RP bonuses teehee (?) I dunno it's late and I need to get on with my life.
I just used the pre-tiebreaker order so it'll be a tad...
This Big Board pun and the glorious frenzy RP windfall hitting our bank accounts this season got me thinking about the bounty times of 2015. Many of our sacred ranks graduated college in this fine year, and some might say our collectively brilliant GM...
Hi All – in one of the most fascinating FA classes the SLN has seen, the current MVP in Kyrie Irving said fuck that RFA and made himself a FA too. I wanted to write a fun article on which teams are in the running, and what they can offer Kyrie from a basketball standpoint and from a life...
Reminder from the last time we did this: I feel like this stat has been less relevant than it was in other leagues - like SLOR - because Ashes has created such a great landscape of bigs that we don't have the homogenized Def/Reb group on every team. SO:...
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Free Agency CAN begin 24-hours after the end of the draft (or in theory sooner) but will not start until everyone completes their bids. Send Free Agent Bids to Ashes. Post in this thread when you do. If we get 29/29 of GMs to submit bids ahead of time, that's 200 in FREE CANDY for all of us!
Voting is open now and will remain open until Wednesday EOD. Chair this season is GX, text your top 3 to me (301-300-0581) ( i understand i am also in the running so to show transparency i will send out an excel doc will all the votes tallied for anyone to verify)
