The Showdown For 11th Place

There were some things you could count on this fantasy basketball season: Dwyane Wade carrying fantasy owners and The Heat on his back; Luke Ridnour, Andray Blatche, Tyrus Thomas, and J.R. Smith getting picked up and dropped more often than a Saigon whore; suicide rates increasing in the early months of 2009 due to the losses of players the likes of Amar'e Stoudemire, Al Jefferson, Andrew Bogut and Andrew Bynum (historically to be known as the big-man massacre of '09); and because of all the injured centers, every team owner thinking at least once about picking up Eric Dampier, but then deciding not to upon remembering Shaq's quote of "I've been playing like Eric Dampier," said when referring to his struggles with a thigh injury in 2005.

Bust a Salary Cap's official fantasy league, NBA Jam T.E. has also had it's constants: Mr. Glass talking smack about me dropping Tyrus Thomas, HawaiianStyle63 ratting out his friends to yahoo for inappropriate team logos, high assist to turnover ratio teams dominating the league (and me as commish taking shit for it), but above all else, the one thing any fantasy owner in our league could count on... getting a win over Team and Team Injury.

As one might infer from their names, these teams' owners gave up on them long ago, and with Team Injury's star studded roster of A'mare Stoudemire, Chris Kaman, and Jameer Nelson, and Team's record setting one week of adjusting his lineups, they had the firepower to send them sprawling to the bottom of the rankings like an authentic Manu Ginobili flop.

Now that we are in the thick of the playoffs, I feel that some attention should be brought to this epic match of the worst our league had to offer.

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note: Somehow, the also appropriately named Team of Pussies made it higher on the consolation bracket, even after the injuries of Bynum, and Michael Redd put him in 2nd to last place. By still paying attention to the league, that lucky ginger has made it to the consolation semi-final.