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If this photo of Tim Duncan with a basketball doesn't get you excited, I give up. (Keith Allison/Flickr)

If you haven’t heard by now, Henry at Weakside Help and I at — well, here — am going on a mock-drafting adventure. Here’s a quick overview: we’re building 12 teams in a standard nine-category league, round-by-round (for 13 rounds), in order to build the best teams that we can, while also drafting in an appropriate order.

So far, the first two rounds haven’t strayed too much from the script, which means some eyebrow raising is bound to be in store in this round.

Here’s round one (here at fBasketballBlog).

Here’s round two (over at Weakside Help).

Now for round three, where things start to get dicey: (continue reading…)

Dwight had it going on last night. (Flickr/Keith Allison)

Beast of the Night: Dwight Howard put up 17 points, 20 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 5 blocks. He shot 55 percent (6-11) from the field, 63 percent (5-8) from the line and had 3 turnovers. He had a rough start to the season but has returned to being a beast lately.

Noteworthy Lines:
Vince Carter – 8-17 FG (47%), 2-4 FT (50%), 1 3ptm, 19 Pts, 7 Reb, 2 Ast, 2 TO

Rashard Lewis – 2-6 FG (33%), 2 3ptm, 6 Pts, 3 Reb, 1 Ast, 1 TO

Chauncey Billups – 6-13 FG (46%), 7-8 FT (88%), 2 3ptm, 21 Pts, 4 Reb, 6 Ast, 2 Stl, 1 Blk, 1 TO (continue reading…)

Nice gesture, bad grammar. Happy birthday, J-Kidd. (Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images)

Beast of the Night: Jason Kidd celebrated his 37th birthday by putting up 26 points, 6 rebounds, 12 assists and a steal, hitting 6 threes in the process. He shot 48 percent (10-21) from the floor and picked up the offensive load after Dirk got ejected.

Noteworthy Lines:
Gerald Wallace – 5-17 FG (29%), 6-7 FT (86%), 1 3ptm, 17 Pts, 19 Reb, 2 Ast, 3 Stl, 3 TO

Andray Blatche – 2-5 FG (40%), 4 Pts, 2 Blk

Chauncey Billups – 5-13 FG (39%), 14-15 FT (93%), 1 3ptm, 25 Pts, 1 Reb, 6 Ast, 1 Stl, 1 TO (continue reading…)

Jose's starting again, but that won't mean all that much. (Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)

[Read the full, original post at Dimemag.com]

Buy Low:
Chauncey Billups

Eric Gordon

Joe Johnson, Derrick Rose, Chris Paul and any other productive fantasy players who are injured (continue reading…)

Even Curry had to bow to Billups last night. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Beast of the Night: Chauncey Billups owned the Warriors again, finishing with 37 points, 6 threes, 6 rebounds, 9 assists, 1 steal and 2 turnovers. He shot 68 percent (13-19) from the field and 100 percent (5-5) from the line.

Noteworthy Lines:
John Salmons – 5-12 FG (42%), 9-10 FT (90%), 1 3ptm, 20 Pts, 2 Reb, 1 Ast, 1 Blk, 1 TO

LeBron James – 11-23 FG (48%), 11-15 FT (73%), 3 3ptm, 36 Pts, 7 Reb, 9 Ast, 2 TO

Anderson Varejao – 6-7 FG (86%), 2-2 FT (100%), 14 Pts, 10 Reb, 2 Ast, 3 Blk, 1 TO (continue reading…)