Welcome to the Fantasy of another week and of the second week of

off season episodes. It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. I'm doing a

better job of keeping track this year so obviously this is off season

episode number 10 during the the NBA playoffs, I am Dan Bespers, and this is Fantasy NBA.

Today, Sports Ethos presentation.

Welcome to the program, anybody who might be squeezing in a live viewing, but mostly those who

are hanging out with us after the fact.

Today's show, I thought, would be kind of a fun one

to look at a few players that came into this season

as what I'd like to refer to more as kind of totals darlings and how that panned out.

And then if there's anything that we can extract from that to use towards our drafting in the future.

The list of totals, darlingsings or whatever we want to call them is relatively short because it's almost impossible to predict who's going to actually make it through a season fully healthy.

But there are a few names of guys that at least at this point in their careers and, you know,

sort of the build of their body and how they get used these are guys where you can point and say you know what this is a guy who I think has a better chance of maintaining a certain measure of health and it wasn't just

pure luck because for a lot of guys they'll have you know a healthy season steal the line from's World. I don't even own a gun. A lot of players will have a healthy season, but not that many can string a few together in a way that feels sustainable.

The guys that we were looking at coming into this year as players that we expected to put up a very large number of games played

uh... or Anthony, if you go all the way kind of to the top of the board, well,

the top of the board, Nicola Yolkich is the guy you figured is going to play a ton of

ball games up at the top.

The rest of the guys in that that initial grouping, you're kind of like, yeah, probably.

Jason Tatum was another one at the top-ish of the, I meanayokaj was number one so that one's a little bit of a

mood point but we'll discuss it anyway. Jason Tatum who was going in the middle of the

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