Utah's Andrei Kirilenko is owned in 100 percent of ESPN's fantasy basketball leagues, which is to say he's wisely owned everywhere. But in how many of those leagues are the owners thinking about dealing him? I own Kirilenko in one league, and I've been trying for weeks! The problem is, it's starting to get a little obvious this isn't going to end as well as it started, and nobody in my league will take the guy off my hands for proper value.
That's a drawback from being in a league with others who do their homework and can read signs (though I certainly prefer it that way). When an incredibly talented yet mystifying player like Kirilenko begins to show signs of trouble, everyone else in the league sees the same trouble. Well, trouble was here in the form of a statistical decline of December. Then the big Utah Jazz forward missed a game over the weekend. His back was hurting. Those signs aren't just cue cards the size of notebook paper, they're more like a 747 jet dragging a sign through the sky, or maybe a billboard along the highway.
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Eric Karabell
