Let's talk about Friday in the NBA.

Games on, six of them, very low Friday, but that means we can hyper focus in on our streaming targets.

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It's the daily look ahead for Friday's games. And yeah, usually Friday is a very busy day in the NBA. This week, it's a little bit off. We've got the nine games on Thursday instead, but only six on Friday. And the six games, it's a regular start time, which is a W. We don't have to worry about that early start. We've got 7pm with the Pelicans and the paces. That's Eastern, of course. You've got the Cavs and the Sixers at a 7pm start also. They're our first two games of the day. Then we go to 7.30, which is Chicago in Brooklyn. The Clippers and

the Raptors is another 7.30 p.m. Eastern game. And then we have a two-hour gap to 9.30 p.m.

Eastern, which is, what, 8.30 p.m. Central, where it's the wolves and the rockets. And then the

7 p.m. Pacific game to finish off Friday night with the Wizards and the Kings.

So overall, a relatively small schedule, but it's not tiny.

It's a very streamable day.

Obviously, every single one of you will be able to stream it on this day.

And we've got some interesting type scenarios without a heavy dose of back-to-backs,

which hopefully enables us to be able to get a lot of these guys to play.

That sounded like I was complaining about guys playing, which is not the case. This is really not that many players at the moment who sit back-to-backs. We know this. There's this not. It's Mark Williams. Actually, there's not. Mark Williams plays back-to-backs now. Who's the guy, Chris Middleton? he doesn't play back to backs on a routine basis, Al Horford. And that's it. There's nobody who's doing it preventatively really. There's the guys coming off injuries, De Anthony Mountain and the torn ACL. But preventatively, it's Horford, who's 42 years old. It's 35-year-old Chris Middleton, however old he is,

and I think that's it. Not Lamello, not Kauai, not Zion, not Mark Williams. None of those guys.

Oh, sorry, Paul George and Jamele Bede, of course. Those two guys. Which they are, they're coming off, or George is coming off with knee injury actually in the summer and heading into the season. And Embedd is a preventative sort of scenario. It's not quite the same as the Hawford one, but yeah, he is. They're the other two guys. My bad. Don't know why I'm focusing on that. Pelicans Paces is the first game of the day. I don't expect that we have Isaiah Jackson or Ben Matherin back for the paces. Um, Herb Jones is questionable again with an ankle spray. I don't think, especially in a points league. I don't think you need to be holding on to Herb Jones, to be honest. Get that garbage out of here. And Sadiq Bay, and someone suggested this in the mailbag show today, like he said,

when you'd put the... think you need to be holding on to Herb Jones, to be honest. Get that garbage out of here.

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