Title Chaste is the diary of Matt Snyder in his season a virgin fantasy basketball player.
Well, that didn't take long. Thanks to Mo Williams, Danny Granger, Amare Stoudemire, Brook Lopez, Jason Terry, Andrea Bargnani and Shawn Marion, I won my first career fantasy basketball game. I should also point out I owe the scheduling for the victory as well, because my team checked in as the sixth-highest scorer out of 12. Really, it could have gone either way. This victory was a sign that being lucky is just as worthwhile as being smart in fantasy basketball, just as I already knew in fantasy baseball and fantasy football. On the other hand, skill is still paramount -- as the top scorer for the week was, not surprisingly, Tom Lorenzo.
In our inaugural edition of the NBA Twitter mailbag, we've got some interesting topics to get us started. How will Shaq's ego fit in Cleveland? Is Kevin Durant getting the attention he deserves? And what's left on the Celtics' summer to-do list?
After the Cleveland Cavaliers' season ended Saturday night in an onslaught of Orlando threes and Dwight Howard dunks, drop-step hooks, and again, dunks, the Cavs all responded in different ways. Mo Williams spoke to reporters, the only effective thing he did in the series. LeBron James walked off the floor without speaking to the Magic and left the arena without speaking to anyone. And Ben Wallace was talking about walking away permanently.
Wallace told ESPN that there was a "strong possibility this was (his) last season."
LeBron James didn't stick around Saturday night to speak with anyone about the fall of his Cleveland Cavaliers, leaving the point guard who failed him to speak in his behalf.
King James might not be happy this morning with how he was portrayed -- Mo Williams made him sound like a spoiled child.
Williams meant well when he started talking about the frustration that James was feeling, and why after James showered, he put on his headphones, ignored everyone around him, then walked to the team bus without talking.
Bloggers knee-jerking on the phone + roundtable style = RoundCast.
Okay, we might be overstating it, but the fact of the matter is that a spectacularly played Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final led Moore, Watson and I to discuss LeBron James' future ... both immediate and long term.
After Cleveland managed to take last night's game into overtime, the Magic then reversed the fortunes of this series with a strong overtime period before putting the Cavaliers in a do-or-die situation. Unfortunately, that's a scenario that involves Mo Williams "not being horrible" and "being a man of his word." We take him to task, naturally.
Plain and simple, this is the game that will determine who wins this Eastern Conference final, which is why the intensity level will reach an all-time high.
If the Cavs win Game 4, they knot the series at 2-2 and regain the home-court advantage, turning it into a best-of-three test with two games in Cleveland. The Magic can't pass that test
If the Magic win tonight, it's 3-1 and all but over as the white flag comes out. As resilient as the Magic have been all season, it's tough to see Cleveland winning three straight unless LeBron James can add a twin brother to the roster.
LeBron James chastised his supporting cast, admitting for the first time that unless more help arrives soon, the best season in franchise history will come to a screeching halt in these Eastern Conference finals against the Orlando Magic.
The Magic lead the best-of-seven series, 2-1, with Game 4 tonight in Orlando. The Cavs, who won 66 games during the regular season, are the No. 1 seed. James may be having a fabulous series – averaging 41.7 ppg and shooting 53 percent – but he said that another huge game for him is not a winning formula.
"It would be pretty tough (to win like this),'' he said Monday. "I know they (teammates) can play a lot better. They know it too. I don't want to put more pressure on anyone, but we've got to man up a little bit, take responsibility.''
Magic guard Anthony Johnson responded Monday to the "cheap shot" accusations made by both Cleveland's LeBron James and Mo Williams after Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals in Orlando.
Johnson got called for a Flagrant I foul on his drive to the basket when he nailed Williams in the face with an elbow, opening a bloody, four-stitch cut on his face. Williams also was called for a personal foul.
"Duck next time," essentially was Johnson's message to Williams. There was no apology, no sense of remorse.
As the NBA Universe tries to adjust to the fact that the team with the best record in the league with the best player in the league faces a 2-1 deficit that would be 3-0 were it not for The Shot Part 11,000, there are some interesting ideas being thrown around as to how the world will right itself, so to speak.
The common reaction is to look to the Cavaliers and ask, "What can they do to get back in this thing?" But instead of attempting to decipher ways to counter the Magic's matchup advantages, or rotation adjustments, or defensive gambles, instead you hear a lot of "Cleveland's shooters have to start making shots."
As if Orlando has had nothing to say about the Cavs' struggles. Just so you're aware, it's not the Fates that have ordained this slump for the No. 1 seed. It's the same principle that got the Cavs that lofty record. Defense.
Title Chaste is the diary of Matt Snyder in his season a virgin fantasy basketball player. 
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As the NBA Universe tries to adjust to the fact that the team with the best record in the league with the best player in the league faces a 2-1 deficit that would be 3-0 were it not for The Shot Part 11,000, there are some interesting ideas being thrown around as to how the world will right itself, so to speak.
