BY TRAVIS MORAN
A couple weeks ago, our fantasy league’s group chat went dark.
A little context: for weeks, I’ve been warning everyone to watch out for Chucktown Champion. Over the past six weeks, Chucktown has leapt seven spots in the standings and now sits a game back of my first-place Hustle. Throw in Windy City Ninjas and my brother’s Triangle squad, and just two-and-a-half games separate the league’s top four.
In the first weeks of this season, Chucktown traded Kevin Durant, Pascal Siakam, and RJ Barrett to my nephew’s team—Slim Reaper Mafia—for Joel Embiid, James Harden, and Tobias Harris. At the time of the trade, Chucktown’s record was 27-35-1 (category wins-losses-ties); since then, his team has gone 58-29-1, winning six of nine matchups. But Chucktown’s surge also opened the door for pointed trash talk.
NINJAS: This was the worst trade in league history by the way. Chucktown shouldn’t …
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