LeBron eats some french fries, then eats the heart of Thunder fans…

those must of been some good french fries….
Cleveland 102, Thunder 89.

Russell Westbrook is THE TRUTH! and you should be looking to draft/keep him…

Birdman, you are about to feel the strength of street knowledge...

For people new to the site, the WCL is a keeper league.  The only way that I have been able to keep my sanity in the face of finishing LAST for the first time in my fantasy career.

Russell Westbrook is one of the keys to my keeper strategy.  I drafted him for four dollars in the draft last year.  According to BasketballMonster.com, with our NSS (the new scoring system that uses, field goal and free throw percentage, assists, rebounds, steals, blocks and the new categories, FT made and assist/TO.) Westbrook should have been a 5th round draft choice (number 66 overall) and had a value of 36 dollars.

I will be keeping him for three years.  In the WCL, the salary escalation is ten dollars a year, max three years.  So, next year, I will have to spend a keeper slot (each team has three, but they are tradable commodities that have value and are slung around in deals, but I have 5) and have 36 dollars removed from my salary cap.

It will be will worth it, especially if he continues in the way he has been during the summer.  ESPN.com gives notes and thoughts on the Summer League.

BEST PLAYER: When Russell Westbrook was in Orlando last summer, he was mostly an afterthought as scouts, coaches, media and even players clamored to see 2008’s top pick, Derrick Rose, square off against No. 2 pick Michael Beasley.

This summer, however, Westbrook had the stage all to himself with Rose not playing summer ball and Miami not fielding a team. And Westbrook proved himself to be far and away the best player in Orlando.

Westbrook led all players in both scoring (22.3 ppg) and assists (7.8), using his bulbous shoulders to dominate other smaller, younger point guards. As a sign of his ability to get just about anywhere he wanted on the court, Westbrook had the second-most free throw attempts of the week (40 attempts, 34 makes). He played under control for the most part, dispelling some of the questions about his ability to set up others with his passing.

Westbrook, who rested on Friday but will play again next week in the Vegas Summer League, said he’s much more comfortable now after a rookie season that taught him he has to balance his aggressiveness with patience.

“I’m better at picking and choosing my spots now,” Westbrook said. “It helps me out by slowing down and seeing all of the things that I missed last year. Things have slowed down for me and I’m seeing the game so much better now.”

It’s like the Matrix…it will slow down to just seem like code

Agent Westbrook: Do you hear that, Mr. Stern? That is the sound of inevitability...