SSBA

Alright, let's get the ball rolling.

Rosters:
http://ssba.phillyarena.net/

Currently available teams:

Taken Teams:
Toronto Raptors - trevc3
Houston Rockets - former KnicksGM
New Orleans Hornets - former WarriorsGM
Atlanta Hawks  - former HawksGM
Philadelphia 76ers - former BullsGM
Utah Jazz - JazzGM former MavsGM
Memphis Grizzlies - old SpursGM
Chicago Bulls - 360renegade (old PistonsGM)
Phoenix Suns - former MagicGM
Orlando Magic - former NetsGM
Miami Heat - former WizardsGM
San Antonio Spurs - BBF (from phillyarena)
Milwaukee Bucks - Zugga (new)
Indiana Pacers - cden (new)
Denver Nuggets - Falzone (new)
Cleveland Cavs - old WolvesGM
Dallas Mavericks - old RocketsGM
New Jersey Nets - dbodner (old NuggetsGM)
Portland Trailblazers - old Bucks GM.
Minnesota Timberwolves - kbods (new)
Detroit Pistons - DaddyG (new)
Boston Celtics - Basketball Jesus (new)
Los Angeles Clippers - b-boy (new)
Golden State Warriors - GoldenStateGM (new)
Sacramento Kings - ZLOVRO (new)
Washington Wizards - Mr. Natural (new)
Los Angeles Lakers - skones (new)
Seattle Supersonics - old CelticsGM
New York Knicks - noisasket

Select your team by making a post here.  I will then change your username to reflect the team you now have.  The sim is currently before the free agency period of the 2005 season, meaning we have to run free agency, run training camp, then we're at the 2005 season.

NOTE!
the sim doesn't have the capacity to add the charlotte bobcats.   As such, all their players have been added to the free agent pool.  That means there is a fairly decent center with no bird years waiting to be signed.  Take this into consideration when selecting what team you want to chose.

The teams will be awarded on a first come first serve basis.  In order to be fair, I will wait 24 hours before selecting my team.  Beginning saturday, I will begin recruiting players from outside locations.

I'll take the Raptors.

Man, Araujo's ratings are SH'T, but not as bas as Igoudala's. I can't believe that.

And shouldn't I have Loren Woods, the Raptors opening day starter?

shocker  :)

BTW, I think the one who did the roster file must have been a canuck.  Look at hoffa  :shock:  with bosh, vince and rafer (overrated as well), that's a heckuva group.

You serious? Hoffa with a F potential? I mean, the inside shooting rating is a bit high, but dude is very solid on defense and rebounding, and those will not improve.

You're right about Vince and Rafer, but I think Bosh is pretty fair.

Keep in mind that's scouted potential.  I very much doubt that's real, I"ve never seen any rookie with an F.

But his stats right now indicate 20/10 out of the gate.

You really think so? With just a B in rebounding? Hey, I hope you're right.

And man, did Iggy ever get raped. Maybe you were right, maybe it was a Canuck that did these ratings. Due to the fact that our beer is so much stronger than yours, it would make sense. This guy was obviously hammered. :D

I'll take the Houston Rockets, por favor  8)

no bird years... Are they going to have to be added manually?

I'll take the Hornets.

The bobcats free agents?  No.  They'll be changing teams anyway, and will have lost their bird years at that point

No, not the FAs, Jamal Mashburn, for example, has 0 bird years.

I'm sticking with the Atlanta Hawks, a big challenge on my hands

I'll take the sixers..

I know you're all sixers fans, please help the 76ers by giving them lopsided deals. Give 'em some brotherly love..

My new username!

Also, 1 reason why i picked the sixers is because.. I wanna be like Twan!

Do you want the boot?

The roster u mean?

I dont like the roster, but i do love the challenge.

I would like the Jazz

You'll have to register.

I'll take the Jazz, had to reregister

Alright, all usernames have been changed to reflect your teams.

I'm going to continue to do this.  I want people to have their names as team names, that way if somebody's searching for the gm of a team it's easy to find.

yeah.. i agree..

i want the Memphis Grizzlies

Seems like everyone has 0.  I'll have to go through and manually change all of them.

Every player???  :shock:

yup.

oh man, I hope that we are taking our teams "as is" because I didn't even consider PJ Brown (who isn't listed on the site) when I picked my team  :(
The Bulls sent me a pm that brought it to my attention, I hope you won't add him...

Im no bulls no more..

haha, my bad  :D

:D

How bout we add emeka to next years' draft? That way, it would be fair..

I was thinking something similar, but it looks like the teams with cap space are pretty sucky anyway, so it might even it out a little if one of those teams lands him.

i would like the Chicago Bulls!!!

Nice team, no challenge.. : (

At least he didn't take the Mavs  :)

I think the Bulls are pretty bad though. 6ers are a pretty big challenge, biggest in the league.

i'll take Phoenix

Thanks

Well, also a reason why i select the sixers is that i've played with this roster before. And all i can say is skinner is a best, double double stats and pretty good in shot blocking. Daly is also a good shotblocker, he had something like 2-3.++ shot blocks per game.

Anyway, GL to all of us. And let us not forget to help our favourite team.. THE SIXERS! hehehhe

Offer me lopsided deals, if you're really a sixers fan!

I'll take the Magic... former NetsGM here...

il take the Miami Heat

former WizardsGM

I agree with Warriors...I mean HornetsGM that it would help balance it out by him going to the teams with cap space.  Besides, since we posted the file with him in as a free agent, people may have chosen teams with cap space specifically because of him (and let's face it, there aren't many other top-tier free agents available).  Taking him out now would screw those teams.

Bods,

I'll take the Spurs if still available.

So can we just sign him with the minimum? :D

Can he be signed for this season? Or should we wait for next year's offseason?

The season starts prior to the free agent signing period.  Where you bid on players.

I'll take the Bucks.  Now THAT is a challenge.

I'll take the pacers, por favor.

Cool.  Just make sure you login (so people can send you PM's and such).

bucks are a challenge, especially with Ford not on the team anymore (although at least in this sim his salary isn't on your cap anymore).  But some of your players are overrated a bit (KVH actually plays defense, and both he, mike james and joe smith all have good ratings.

Bottom line..

Sixers have the most challenge, in the real nba and the sim league. This team is made up of supporting players, who are still serviceable, but have past their prime and has long contract. And their young guys, such as andre and Daly are underrated in this league. And is pretty much over the cap -17m.

Yeah, you've certainly got a challenge.  You can thank Billy King for that (although Andre can certainly develop.   With his A potential, he's actually close at C+ C+ to being a solid offensive threat)

I'd like to take the Nuggets please.

Falzone: I changed your login name to NuggetsGM.

Also, I'm in the process of responding to your e-mail.  it'll be there in one minute.

BTW, the new jazz Gm is not a new commer. He's the former mavsGM..

Thanks.  I'm plenty experienced with regular fantasy bball (both roto and h2h), but will probably need a learning curve here.

I'll take Cleveland.

damn you.  My 24 hour time limit I imposed on myself to let others chose first was about to expire in an hour and a half.  I wanted LeBron for the next decade :)

Milwalkee at least has a dencent cap situation.

Should of have the old SSBA memebers pick team first.

the 4 new people we've gotten aren't going to kill the league.  This needs to be done quickly, and the few people I personally invited (haven't taken it to outside locations yet) aren't taking any spots away from past active GM's.

I understand, i want my Rockets back. :lol:   Anyway, i will take the Mavs.

Ok, who took my email address. :D   When i try to sign up for a team, it said that my email already in used.

^^ Nevermind, my username got change to Old-RocketsGM. :cry:

Haha.  I knew there had to be a reason.  Anyway, the Rockets were taken almost immediately after I posted the thread, before I even invited anyone outside the league (they were taken by the former KnicksGM).

Alright, I've changed your name.  Login as "MavsGM" with your old password.

Alright, my day time limit is up.

I'm going for a complete rebuild.  I've got the Nets.

And yes, I'm looking at making a run for Emeka :)  (hopefully it turns out better than my run for Yao last year)

I don't really think you had a chance on signing Yao, you will rarely see a player pass up 105 mils.  What draft file are you going to use?

We're going to be going computer generated draft file.  I don't want to try to balance in real players.

Alright, 11 more teams open.

I'll give everyone another 24 hours, then I'm going to start posting it on RealGM and the official FBB site.

Unless I clear some more room, I don't think I have that much of a shot for Emeka.  But I gotta give it a shot.

How can a computer generated draft file has Okafor in it?

Okafor's not going to be in the draft file.  It was discussed starting with the first post in this thread.

it dosent, the FBB file wont allow the creation of the charlotte bobcats, so all the bobcat players have been added to the free agent pool.

so i beleive the Nets gm is trying to get some cap space to make a run at emeka

So Okafor will be in next year's FA pool?

Did you even bother to read the original post?  :lol:

this season is starting at 2005 FA signing

Whoo, that's quite a sporting choice, good luck.

I was going to go with the Wolves, because I love Garnett.  The team around him was junk, with some bad contracts too.

I was going to try to go for Seattle, but NJ's cap space this year gave them the edge.

the only team really left to compete right now is the Lakers.  And man...I just culdn't bring myself to do it :)

hahahahha, I hear you completely  :lol:

What's wrong with the Lakers?  Are you one of those KB8 haters?

Actually, I don't hate kobe.  I don't know enough about him to hate him personally, and the basketball players incredible.

I do hate the purple and gold though.

ill be

the portland trailblazers

If it's not to late, i'll take the pistons...

Not too late at all.

I changed your login name to "PistonsGM".  This is just done so that if somebody's looking to make an offer to the pistsons they're easier to find.

I'll take the Celts. Why? Because pain is fun in small doses.

Sweet.  Register for "CelticsGM" as a username and login, so people can contact you easily.

I have never played anything like this, so I'll take the Clippers... that way when I finish last... nothing special right?!  :D

Sorry, think I forgot to log in. This should be ok now?!

Yup, perfect.

Love to take Golden State, if they are still available...

damn i am late...i wish i could take wolves or suns...alright give me sacramento

Cool.  Register as "KingsGM" so people can contact you easily.

good to see things filling out  :D

Yeah, I'm in, just give me any team, it doesn't matter to me.

You know, of all the teams, I think the ones that are left are good ones.

Knicks have some talent.  Marbury's still very good in this game, and Crawford actually plays defense.  They are in cap hell though.

the Wiz have a ton of talent.  Arenas, Hughes, Jamsison, Kwame, Etan.

Sonics not only have good talent (shard, allen, murray), but also a TON of capspace after this yaer if they choose so.

And the Lakers have a ton of talent.  a PG away from a championship.  But then again, they are the lakers, and who wants to be them?  :)

With your indeference I should give you the Knicks.  But I'll go easy on you and give you the Sonics.

Oh, I was under the impression that we drafted our entire teams from scratch.

In that case, I'll take the Wiz.

Oh well, Sonics will do.

Did I see BBJ's name in this thread? I hope he got himself a team.

Oh, no, we use the rosters located at:
http://ssba.phillyarena.net

Wiz you have.

I'll take the lakers
Aim skonester
e-mail zevon2003@yahoo.com

sweet.  changed your name to "LakersGM".  only 2 more left to go.

What teams are available?  I will come back now.

supersonics and knicks.

nice to have ya back.

Put me down at the Sonics GM.

AIM - Pizzat88
email - pizzat88@yahoo.com

Still, may Billy Joe Blazejowski rest in piece!

I will make a new screen name here...

SonicsGMBlazejowski

don't worry about it.  I changed your username from old-celticsgm to SonicsGM.

username: SonicsGM
pass: same one you had as CelticsGM.

Good, I am in, and ready

alright, check out the free agents, have offers in by 5 pm EST wednesday.

I'm interesting in Knicks.


AIM: noibasket
mail: noibasket@hotmail.com

alright, they're use.  changed your login to "KnicksGM" (password remains the same).

Wheee!  Alright, all teams have been filled.  Good luck all!

as stated, free agency begins on Wednesday.  PM me those offers!

Good luck to all.

I also trimmed the memberlist, so that only the 29 teams are registered.  This way it's easy to contact the team you're looking for.

I hope everyone could post their AIM

This is the first time I play.... what happens now? I check the free agents and then what?

Also, why is Okafor FA? I don't see Igoudala. And Kukoc on the 76ers?

Thanks for helping me out!

You need to sign in.

Iggy was traded, kukoc was traded.

No Bobcats, so all their players are FA.

Ok thanks! Forgot to sign in again.  So where do we add the FA's that we are interested in? And how do we trade?
BTW, sorry for all these questions!!

How do you trade? You talk with other GM's, then work something out.

You need to send the NetsGM a list of who you want to sign, and for what.

You're the General Manager of the Clippers. So you get to do all those things a real-NBA GM gets to do.

Clipps, welcome,

TRADING: You can post your "trade block" (trade block = guys you are looking to move, along with a general idea of what you want for them) in the "trade talk" thread. You can also check out other teams' trade blocks there. Check out the Raptors trade block for a good example of one.
Usually you will want to give your offers for trade by PM (private message). This ensures that others will not be able to "top" your offer. You can post your general interest on the thread though.
Once you have a deal worked out, accounting for salary difference and all that, you can post your trade in the "completed trades" thread.
Since you are new to the sim, you might want to wait to see how guys perform in the sim; it can be very different than real life.

FREE AGENCY: Don't post on the big board, send the Nets GM a PM, he is the commish. There are detailed instructions on what you can offer free agents here in league rules: http://phillyarena.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=120

Once the season starts you will be able to decide your depth chart and your team strategy. There will be more intructions on that after free agency is complete though.

RaptorsGM and HornetsGM... thanks a lot for the info!!!

ummm, what teams are available?

Unfortunately we're out right now.  You can post in the GM waiting list though to be contacted when one does open up.

http://www.phillyarena.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=135

question Nets, Do we have a new BlazersGM yet?

We do.

I think.

I'm waiting to hear back from him to make sure.

Any news yet on the Blazers GM?

Honestly, it would not be fair to just let Telfair go to free agency, if a GM has not take the team on yet...

Without Telfair, the Blazers would have no future at all...

Yes, there is a blazersgm, he's been notified, he just needs to register.

At this point, if he doesn't register and post his decisions in time, it's fair to let telfair go to FA.

And I don't agree about telfair.  Right now he's the Lorenzo Ellis of the league (except, unlike Ellis, he can actually score).  Randolph is still, IMO, their best player.

Telfair has actually been very effective, much more then his abilities show.

He did shoot 43.8% form the field, which is pretty good.  And he still has the A potential, and it has been shown to be a true A potential.  He has gotten better every year, although it seems to be on a downward trend.

Only 5 point guards with B- in or better, and it must be tough to defend, since most PG's likely do not have the best inside defense...

Well, I think B- inside also takes into account driving ability and ability to finish inside.  To stop that, a defending pg doesn't need good low post defense, but good drive defense.

kinda like ai.  I don't think he and telfair are posting people up.

True...  But most points, I think have a difficult matchup with that.  The only thing that makes Baron Davis effective scoring is his B inside.  Same with Telfair.  I think your standard point has a difficult time guarding that ability.  Noticed this when Hinrich had to face Luisetti vs the Kings.  I knew he would have trouble with a player with a good inside (from history) and he sure did...

Bad news for the legaue. I think the new BlazersGM is one of my relatives  :P .




But he's pretty calm guy. So don't worry.

OK....  But if w smell collusion, I am going to have Araujo sit on McGrady :)
Since his ankle has been injured he has ballooned up to 350 lbs now :)

Yeah, i heard he's lazy as hell now. And i doubt he'll ever return to his previous form. :)  :wink:

Hah...  He never could jump anyway (evidenced by his terrible shotblocking)...  But you will never be able to get near the paint, when the Brazilian Blubber Boy is on the court ;)

Speaking of sprained ankles, I just got mine bad today.  For a few minutes I was really worried because I don't have insurance right now, so a broken ankle would be bad.  But I was able to put weight on it, thank god. But it's ballooned to look like a friggin basketball right now.

*note to self*, don't try to run down your stairs while reading again.

What was so important to read?

Nothing important.  I don't even remember what I was reading.  Just something that caught my attention as I was heading out the door.

Kinda sad.  I played high school football for 4 years.  Never sprained an ankle.  I've been playing basketball and baseball, at various levels, for the past 18 years.  I've biked, atv's, roller hockey, ice skated.  Never a sprained ankle.

going down stairs?  That's what gets me.

Quick technique that will tell a break...  Squeeze the sides of either your knee or your lower leg with some force...  If you feel pain, then it is definitely something to check out...

Ice, elevation, and ibuprofen...  Ahh, ibuprofen...

One of my friend has this strange, but very effective and awesome method. Something with oil and pottatoes. I says the ankle is back to normal after just 1 or 2 days. Couple of others also confirmed me that.

Ok, well that's good, didn't hurt.

Of course, I should probably try it when my ankle isn't numb from ice ;)

Lol...  numbness is better then the pain...