The Best Part About Being a Bobcats Fan?......Fantasy Teams

Creating an NBA fantasy team is like producing a Hollywood movie. You go out and try to get a big name guy that will bring in the biggest numbers, get a respectable cast who can do their job with no distractions, add a up-and comer, and stick a goofy member who nobody knows why is involved but makes the crowd smile.

Over the years I have found that the most trouble for me is detaching myself from the players on my favorite team to take the best available fantasy player. I call this paradox Phony Fan Expectations Syndrome (PFES), causing owners worldwide to convince themselves that there is good reason to take the players they cheer for over those who statistically will contribute more to the team. I have shifted my current and past fantasy players into 6 categories to give you an understanding as to how and why we can cheer for each of the players.

1) Fresh Princes - The players still topping out(the King), you watch highlights of them night in and night out because lets face it, whatever they do is great and can make any team good, as does Will Smith. You can't get more than one of these due to fantasy sizes and salary caps.

2) Cruisers - You hate to cheer for these players because away from their practice (Ron Artest), they are typically insane attention grabbers who embarrass themselves (see Tom Cruise). Nevertheless, you can still cheer for them because when on the playing field, they still bring it home. Don't get more than two or you'll look like your grasping for attention.

3) Eastwoods - Kobes' and Tim Duncans, the veteran players who still have it. Past their prime but you take them because no matter what they do, they compile numbers, at this phase intimidation alone beats others, like Clint Eastwood. Get two or more if you are feelin lucky. Do ya punk?

3) Col. Jessups - The guy you love to cheer for, but should have retired a while ago (Shaq). Still puts up numbers, but makes people forget how good they were (see The Bucket List and As Good as it Gets for Jack Nicholson). You take them because you have to out of respect.

4) CTZs - Easy to cheer for - good looking players who don't take over games every night, but always achieves and will have the outstanding performance often enough to not let you forget the name, think Hedo Turkoglu. See Catherine Zeta-Jones and her accomplishments.

5) Carusos - The draft pick you are most embarrassed of but allows you to be over-dramatic after a win (slow glasses removal per Horatio Caine) or gives you an out for losses (who wants to have this guy in your movie). As bad as they may seem, they are faithful to one cast and somehow stick around and give you decent numbers on selective nights.

6) Hanna Montanas - Lastly, the risky rookie you take hoping to make it in the bigs so if they do, you can send that email out that you wrote last week about how your the best fantasy GM and your smarter than Chad Ford. Think Greg Oden and his injury history here.

Finding reasons to be able to cheer for players of other teams can be rough on sports fans because you can't show support for various teams, but as a Bobcats fan I am lucky enough to not have to worry about that, seeing as how there is nothing to cheer for in the first place.