Even for people who have no taste for the NBA, you have got to love the situation that the Portland Trailblazers find themselves in at the current time.

Let me set this up for you.

Darius Miles had a career-ending injury that required micro-fracture surgery. There are certain rules in place by the NBA and by insurance companies insuring the teams that will prevent horrible injuries to players from damaging teams and their viability as a contender in the league for longer than a couple of years at the most.

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The rumor out there is that Al Harrington will be traded to New York in exchange for an expiring contract. Don’t you love those expiring contracts?

Here’s what it means for you in a Fantasy Basketball perspective.

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The trade, as it has been recently stated on various basketball sports sites is as follows:

• Allen Iverson is going from Denver to the Detroit Pistons.
• Chauncey Billups, Antonio MyDyess, and possibly another player are going from Detroit to the Denver Nuggets.

Let’s analyze this from a purely Fantasy Basketball perspective.

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I finally had my Fantasy Basketball Draft in my 10 team league. I’m not really sure if my players are going to manage enough points to stay competitive, but I think I did well in a lot of the other categories including, amazingly enough, turnovers.

I had the 6th pick in the draft which precluded me from drafting Chris Paul, who I was most interested in.

Here are my 13 players (10 rotation players and 3 bench players), including the order that I drafted them:

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Enough has probably already been said about Donaghy’s latest allegations, but Doug Robinson of the Deseret News had an interesting take that I hadn’t thought of before.

(Although I probably should have).

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