Being a sponge for information and seeking the best resources and ideas is part of what makes us great.  The same can be said for what makes a great basketball fan.  Any frothing at the mouth homer can be a Lakers fan, and in fact most of them are.  It takes real basketball IQ to be a fan of a team that isn't a perennial all star.  We need to dig a little deeper into the numbers behind our awful teams.

Here are the resources to help you do that.  

82games.com : One of my favorite sites for looking at the efficiency of a particular player or lineup.  They are famous for taking hockey's  +/-  and applying it to basketball.

Patricia's Various Basketball Stuff :  I have been leaning on this page for years, it is often the first place I look before I even do a google search.  She has accumulated and continues to accumulate the most useful collection of data.  She is a Mav's fan, but they did take Erika Dampier's contract off our hands, so we like them.

Basketball-Reference : The place to go for your historical information fix.  Pretty much every teams press guide on a website going back 50 years.  Who was the number 1 draft pick in 1979, they can answer that.

Larry Coon's CBA : The collective bargaining agreement, read it, learn it, live it, love it.  Stop making stupid trade proposals involving base year compensation players. 

Realgm Trade Checker : Went downhill slightly once they had to take salary information out (thanks NBA) but it is still the go to tool for figuring out if something will work.  If you want to do it old school style, combine it with Patricia's salary information.