Fantasy NBA Basketball: Players to Buy & Sell - JANUARY 2008

Already a month and a half into the NBA season, most fantasy basketball managers have scavenged through the free agent pool and the waiver wire for quality player pickups. And if you were one of those managers who was quick enough to pull the trigger on picking up early season free agents like: Ronnie Brewer, Damien Wilkins, Martell Webster, Daniel Gibson, Kelenna Azukuike, Beno Udrih, Jamario Moon, Carlos Delfino, Antonio Daniels, and Jose Calderon, odds are you are either at or near the top of your league standings right now.

However if you weren't quick enough to pull the trigger on adding these guys to your team, you still have a fighting chance to win your league by trying to pull off some key trades. In fact now, early in the NBA season, is the best time throughout the entire year to do any sort of trading.

So if you want to make the playoffs in your head to head league or get close to having a chance to finish #1 in your rotisserie league, now is as good a time as any to start some trading.

To help you out, I have listed several players that you will probably want to trade high on now if you have them on your team, and players you will want to trade for now while their values are relatively low.

Who to Trade:
Get rid of and trade these guys now while you can get something good in return for them.

1. Baron Davis - PG - Golden State Warriors

No matter how good he may be, you can't dispute the fact that he has never played an entire NBA season since 2001. In fact out of a possible 82 games per year (regular season games only), Baron Davis has managed to only play in at least 60 games twice in five years. That means in 3 of the last 5 seasons he has missed at least 25 games a year. All in all, Davis has missed a total of 130 games the past 5 season's. This total means that Davis has missed over 30% of each season's games the last 5 years, or he's 130 missed games out of a possible 410 games during that span.