Welcome to the Fantasy NBA today podcast. This is a pretty easy opener to do for me. One week. That's it.

me. One week. That's it. That's the countdown to the start of the NBA season. Drafts are happening. Slow drafts are very much in full swing.

30 Deep is gone.

We got all my stuff, I think.

My personal things are all arranged.

Pretty sure you guys are doing the same thing.

And we just keep getting more and more reasons to draft late.

Lamello ball needs an MRI on his foot.

The list of injuries happening just keeps growing. It stinks. But it is again a stark reminder of why we

don't draft super early.

Yes, sometimes you can kind of beat the market on certain guys,

but this type of stuff, and hopefully the Lamello thing turns out to be small,

sprained ankle, you know, maybe it's only going to be two

weeks, but what if it's four? What if it's six? We don't know yet this could turn out to be an example

of kind of nothing, if you drafted last week

You probably drafted Lamello at like 10 and if he's gonna miss the first three or four weeks of the season. I don't think you would have done that. I had

someone replied to me on Twitter. I sent a note out last night. I'm at Dan Bespers

on Twitter. By the way, welcome to Fantasy NBA today, everybody. I launched straight into a when should you draft rant, but let me talk to you for a minute about when you should draft.

I sent a note out on really just the fact that like all of the injuries in this pre-season,

whether it's Yolkich in the wrist, which maybe that's totally nothing also,

Lamello and the ankle, Christops Porcingus turned his ankle.

There are big name players dealing with stuff,

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