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The time has come friends, under immense pressure I'm caving and we will restart the league. The year will be 2007-08, where the Boston Celtics went on to win the NBA Championship. The file is currently in progress. Once completed we will divvy up teams in a grand fashion, where the order of team selection will be a lottery, with favor of the lottery coming to those who did the most winning in this past iteration. The great wheel of BSL will select people one by one to choose their teams, until all teams have been distributed.
More information to come, but we will return to a moving cap.
For now we will aim to fill all 29 teams. If you're currently a GM you have first dibs.
1. Donkey
2. Nate
3. Foreman
4. GB
5. Swope
6. brooks
7. yrtb
8. Xxplayerxx23
9. G9.
10. hokeyrules
11. Snypes89
12. BradS4President
13. daulten780
14. Hooper
15. Kings
16. AiRuPtHeRe™
17. mngopher35
18. Cloud
19. Just Swaggy
20. SoftLettuce
21. Panic!
22. CLB3
23. Username
24. BeatsHaveADream
25. Hail2pitt
26. leflop
27. notail
28.
29.
Wait List:
1. Mzylinski
2. LukaSZN
3. Scott
4. Tpack17
5. carmelo115
6. seebaas25
7. PistolPeteJr
8. Foxyg1396
More information to come, but we will return to a moving cap.
For now we will aim to fill all 29 teams. If you're currently a GM you have first dibs.
1. Donkey
2. Nate
3. Foreman
4. GB
5. Swope
6. brooks
7. yrtb
8. Xxplayerxx23
9. G9.
10. hokeyrules
11. Snypes89
12. BradS4President
13. daulten780
14. Hooper
15. Kings
16. AiRuPtHeRe™
17. mngopher35
18. Cloud
19. Just Swaggy
20. SoftLettuce
21. Panic!
22. CLB3
23. Username
24. BeatsHaveADream
25. Hail2pitt
26. leflop
27. notail
28.
29.
Wait List:
1. Mzylinski
2. LukaSZN
3. Scott
4. Tpack17
5. carmelo115
6. seebaas25
7. PistolPeteJr
8. Foxyg1396
| RANK | TEAM | REC. | COMMENT | |
| 1 (2) | Spurs | 58-24 | Is this the season, after three titles in five seasons, San Antonio finally goes back-to-back? Here's what we do know for sure: Defending champs always start up here with the committee, even if they never repeat. |
| 2 (29) | Celtics | 24-58 | Sobering fact: No team with three 20-point scorers has ever won it all. But all Boston has to do is get to the Finals to meet expectations, which (again) is very plausible now after the NBA's most spectacular offseason. |
| 3 (3) | Suns | 61-21 | A trade demand on the eve of camp from someone of Marion's stature would normally lead to a bigger rankings slide. But Phoenix has years of practice dealing with (and winning in spite of) a mopey Matrix. |
| 4 (5) | Rockets | 52-30 | No West team did more to help itself over the summer. But championship material? We're starting to hear such chatter, which seems a tad premature until T-Mac and Yao win a playoff series together. Agreed? |
| 5 (7) | Pistons | 53-29 | Maybe we're in the minority, but the committee keeps looking at a roster that wasn't blown up as many expected and keeps seeing the best Pistons team -- at least on paper -- since the squad that won it all in 2004. |
| 6 (1) | Mavericks | 67-15 | Dallas isn't starting so low because its season for the ages ended in first-round humiliation. Dallas is down here because it has to prove it can rebound from two extraordinarily painful playoff implosions in a row. |
| 7 (12) | Cavaliers | 50-32 | It's one thing to make zero changes to the roster, but now Varejao and Pavlovic don't plan to come to camp. In other words, "Saturday Night Live" was likely the last time you'll see LeBron smile for a while. |
| 8 (10) | Jazz | 51-31 | The major doubt is not whether Utah has the talent to repeat last season's various breakthroughs. It's whether Utah will have the togetherness, after a trade demand from Kirilenko far more unsettling than Marion's. |
| 9 (11) | Warriors | 42-40 | As if the prospect of training camp in Hawaii isn't appealing enough, Golden State will have the unexpected privilege of claiming the brighter outlook of the two California teams based in the land of the luau. Sorry, Lakers. |
| 10 (4) | Bulls | 49-33 | The Bulls are on the short list of favorites to win the East, but you have to wonder -- given their inability to trade for KG or Pau -- how much they're second-guessing themselves for letting Tyson Chandler go. |
| 11 (9) | Nuggets | 45-37 | We didn't remember this at first, either, but the Iverson-and-Melo Nuggets were 10-1 in April. So maybe they were right to tweak minimally in the offseason, saving the spotlight for K-Mart's mountain of a comeback. |
| 12 (6) | Raptors | 47-35 | J-Kidd recently decreed that Raps, as defending division champs, deserve Team To Beat status in the Atlantic. They'd settle for second place and a return to the playoffs, honestly, but welcome the rare props. |
| 13 (15) | Magic | 40-42 | No team from last season's eight playoff qualifiers in the East did more in the offseason than Orlando. Yet you'd struggle to find anyone picking newcomers Rashard and SVG to lift D-Howard into the elite just yet. |
| 14 (13) | Nets | 41-41 | The suspicion here remains that the Nets have a better shot than anyone at eventually trading for Jermaine O'Neal. In the interim, they'll settle for a smooth return for Krstic and a resurrected Magloire. |
| 15 (18) | Wizards | 41-41 | He's an Internet legend with his blogs, interviews and quirks. He's also the new NBA Live video-game cover boy. But is he a leader? Maybe this is the season Arenas -- in his contract year -- lets us know. |
| 16 (19) | Hornets | 39-43 | No one knows for sure what sort of support awaits the Hornets in their full-time return to the Crescent City, but a return to the playoffs sounds realistic if they can find some consistent health there. |
| 17 (27) | Bucks | 28-54 | The Bucks were busier than most teams over the summer and spent a lot more than they usually do. So Sen. Kohl will inevitably demand big things from the team GM Larry Harris has assembled, starting with the Big Yi. |
| 18 (20) | Bobcats | 33-49 | Sam Vincent might be facing an unusual amount of pressure for a rookie coach if the guy who hired him (Michael Something or Other) shares the growing belief that the Bobs, in Year 4, should make a real playoff push. |
| 19 (14) | Lakers | 42-40 | Confidence in Lakerland is high that Kobe will indeed attend all of training camp. The mere fact that was ever in doubt, though, lets you know how turbulent this season is bound to be for the Zen Men. |
| 20 (8) | Heat | 44-38 | It's probably not encouraging that Riles -- who recently gave himself 'an F' for Miami's lack of offseason upgrades to a brittle roster -- responded testily last week to questions about Wade and Shaq's health. |
| 21 (30) | Grizzlies | 22-60 | Losing 60 games must have been a torturous farewell for Jerry West, but the Grizz have found credibility without The Logo faster than anyone expected after hiring Iavaroni and a flurry of summer improvements. |
| 22 (24) | SuperSonics | 31-51 | Blanket coverage of the team's uncertain future in the Pacific Northwest can only help Durant. He'll undoubtedly welcome focus on other matters given how much he and his young team figures to struggle in Year 1. |
| 23 (23) | Trail Blazers | 32-50 | Don't know that this will provide much consolation for devastated Blazermaniacs, but we've been assured Greg Oden will be eligible to win Rookie of the Year in the 2008-09 season if he sits out all of this season. |
| 24 (25) | Knicks | 33-49 | The new season begins with Balkman freshly injured and Isiah corralled in a Manhattan courtroom instead of introducing Zach Randolph at media day. It's a calamitous start, even by Knicks standards. |
| 25 (22) | Kings | 33-49 | We repeat: Sacramento's turn-of-the-century rise from perennial doormat to title contender was a fairy tale, but rebuilding this castle -- nearly three years after exiling Webber -- is proving a much tougher job. |
| 26 (28) | Hawks | 30-52 | The Hawks have a new logo, color scheme and pair of hot rookies. But Hawks Fever isn't exactly rampant when they've also inherited the league's longest playoff drought, at eight seasons and counting. |
| 27 (17) | 76ers | 35-47 | Philly's first full season AAI (After Allen Iverson) begins with numerous question marks. The biggest of those: Do you see a core on the roster worth building around? Without a clear-cut franchise player, not yet. |
| 28 (16) | Clippers | 40-42 | If the injured Elton Brand is right about what the teammates he's left behind can do, this ranking and zillions of skeptics are all wrong: 'You tell us we suck? Well, they're going to show you that we don't.' |
| 29 (21) | Pacers | 35-47 | Why do we keep dredging up the melee in Detroit? Because that turning point in Pacers history happened in the fall of 2004, but things in Pacerland are getting progressively worse nearly three years later. Not better. |
| 30 (26) | Timberwolves | 32-50 | You suspect that Mr. McHale won't mind starting Life After KG with what has to be the most faraway training camp in NBA history. Can't imagine he'll encounter too many disgruntled Wolves fans in Turkey. |
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