Starting this week: The Dailies & 170 days of fantasy basketball

(Writing is fun! Illustration courtesy of Hatrobot)

The NBA season launches on Tuesday. Huzzah, I say! Huzzah! Hell, I love the NBA enough to actually manage a blog ostensibly devoted to NBA fantasy basketball, with daily recap articles and everything. And because I want said blog, this blog, to be as good as humanly possible, I'm going to try to do something unique in the way I present my recaps of the previous night's NBA action. It's all a part of my master genius segment-collumn-thingy -- "The Dailies" -- which I hope will revolutionize the way people read about random basketball players while darting in and out of their room to make sure they didn't overcook their food.

What's The Dailies about, you ask? Well, it'll be a daily column where I write every single day about something. What that something is, I don't know. It could be about anything: the NBA, a movie I caught on Netflix, the price of gas in Cambodia. Anything (except that last one). However, each daily entry will contain, whether in small or large amounts, a section devoted entirely to what happened last night in fantasy basketball. For instance, I could talk about what happened on the latest episode of The Walking Dead and then immediately segue into how Kevin Love is a beast and how Nick Young needs to be picked up on waiver wires, and so on.

Now, you may be thinking, "Uhhh.... why? Like, what's the point of all this?" My answer is this: it is very, very, VERY difficult to maintain a daily fantasy blog. If you don't believe me, imagine writing about the same thing over and over again for six straight months; it wouldn't take long before you'd burn yourself out. And I know my limits. I know that if I only wrote about fantasy basketball on this site -- if I didn't occasionally stray and babble about Justin Bieber or Mariano Rivera -- I'd lose my mind.

The Dailies is my work-around to that problem. Broken Leagues will absolutely give you a daily dosage of fantasy basketball goodness; that's a guarantee. However, on some days I might decide to write more about Star Wars, or about hipsters, or about how annoying it is when people decide to stop and have a conversation in the middle of crowded hallways (the bastards). I'm going to let my mind wander, but each Daily will still have the common theme of being slightly, barely, about fantasy basketball. And I think it makes sense because if you're reading this, and you ARE into fantasy basketball, surely there are other things you like talking/writing/ranting about besides this one specific subject. Even though I like fantasy basketball, it's not the only thing I'm interested in.

Also, I've decided that this blog -- as it's presently constituted -- will exist for at least one year. The goal, and this may be a quixotic dream, is to get this site onto a sports network somehow, or to incorporate my writing onto another platform in such a way that what you're reading is read by more people. That may be wishful thinking, especially since fantasy basketball has way, way less of an audience than fantasy football and fantasy baseball. Still, it's worth a shot. And hey: by allowing myself to write about literally anything I want (that isn't like uber offensive or controversial), there's no reason not to give it my all for at least a full season.

Also ALSO, I'm going to label each Daily entry with "Day 1," "Day 2," and so on, depending on which day of the NBA season I'm recapping. This is in direct homage to how the dudes at Give Me The Rock (then later Fantasy Basketball Coaches) did it, which I always thought was neat because, when it was all said and over, the season would almost always end at Day 170. In fact, I really can't recall a moment when there haven't been precisely 170 days to the NBA season, and the only reason I know that is because G.M.T.R. brought it to my attention.

Erik Wong, who was one of the lead writers at Give Me The Rock, has graciously allowed me to adopt that site's old chronological format. This is the first year of Erik's new fantasy site -- PointsInThePaint.com -- and I highly recommend you check it out, if you happen to be reading this and you're not already aware of P.I.T.P.

Anyway, that's all the updating I have for now. If you're reading this and you're not an awful, awful human being, I highly encourage you to follow the site on Twitter: @brokenleagues, where all of your non-existential fantasy basketball questions will be answered.

Toodles!