Are you an NBA lover? Gamesurf presents STAZ, the fantasy basketball dedicated to American basketball

That time of year for the world of basketball has arrived: the NBA 2025/26 season is finally here with the debut of the reigning champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder, who, after receiving their rings, challenged the Houston Rockets. In short, the NBA is already in full swing!

Fantasy NBA like you've never seen it before

This is the right week, in short, to organize with your NBA-loving friends and create a fanta-NBA league. Where? On STAZ (Don’t lie), the new fantasy basketball conceived and developed by the Around the Game team, available for free as a web app (with an app coming in the next few months).

On STAZ, you play in private leagues (8-20 players, including a commissioner), starting with the Draft and then competing in the Regular Season and Playoffs. The keyword on STAZ is one: efficiency. It is measured through "fanta-points," or rather STAZ PTS/MIN ("STAZ Points per minute"), a metric created by the Around the Game team that encapsulates all boxscore statistics into a single data point, relative to the minutes spent by the player on the court.

Teams are composed of 13 players, to be deployed in the lineup from game to game. The goal is to optimize the available minutes for each of the three positions in every challenge: Guards (G, 96 minutes), Forwards (A, 96 minutes), and Centers (C, 48 minutes), just like in a real NBA game. At the same time, coaches on STAZ are also General Managers, dealing with trades on the trade market, signing free agents, cutting players from their roster, and mini-auctions for "waivers." All without forgetting the dedicated insights on Around the Game, which this year launched a new section dedicated to tips and updates on the world of Fanta-NBA!

To learn more, the site's rules page explains all the necessary information to understand STAZ, create your own league, invite challengers, start the Draft, and race for the Fanta-NBA championship title. As Rasheed Wallace more or less said: STAZ don't lie!