Fantasy Basketball Pros started on a Blogspot page in 2007.
Two roommates, two laptops, too much fantasy basketball. My name is Farid. My co-founder, Mike, was my roommate at the time, and between us we were running what felt like a dozen leagues — Yahoo head-to-head, Yahoo rotisserie, ESPN keeper, whatever our friends could talk us into. We kept arguing about pickups, so we decided to argue in public instead.
In early 2008 we moved the site to its own domain: fantasybasketballpros.com. Over the next few years we wrote more than a hundred posts — daily “Pickup of the Night” columns, strategy breakdowns, blockbuster trade reactions, rookie watches, and the occasional bad Lakers prediction. Readers actually showed up. They commented, they argued back, they emailed us their rosters. It was a blast.
Then life happened. School ended, jobs started, leagues shrank, and the posts slowed, then stopped. The last new piece went up in early 2011.
Everything you see from before 2012 lives on in the Archive. The takes haven’t aged well in places — the 2008 Lakers predictions, my entire opinion on Andrew Bynum’s knees, Mike’s refusal to believe in Stephen Curry — but I’ve left the whole run as it was. The comments are still there. The bad takes are still there. It felt wrong to scrub it.
Now, in 2026, I’m bringing the site back.
This time it’s just me. Mike has a real job and a family and is probably smarter for it. I’m going to keep the scope small and the schedule honest: one post a week during the NBA season, with a focus on what people actually need — waiver wire pickups, streaming plays, and the kind of strategy posts that still get mileage years later. During the offseason, draft prep and dynasty content.
No hot takes for the sake of hot takes. No listicles I’d be embarrassed to share. Just useful fantasy basketball writing from someone who’s been doing this since LeBron was on Cleveland the first time.
If you’re here from the old days: welcome back, and thanks for being patient. If you’re new: start with the newest posts, but the archive is worth a browse if you’re curious how we used to argue about Andrew Bynum.
To hoops,
Farid
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