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Locked On Fantasy Basketball – Daily NBA Fantasy Basketball Podcast

Fantasy Basketball Week 5 Preview

Locked On Fantasy Basketball – Daily NBA Fantasy Basketball Podcast

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

NBA fantasy managers face a perfectly balanced Week 5 schedule—no double-digit or single-game days—eliminating the need to chase traditional “quality game” strategies. Josh Lloyd spotlights teams with favorable volume, warns of the Los Angeles Lakers’ and Houston Rockets’ brutal two-game slates, and explains why dropping fringe players like Rui Hachimura or Tari Eason (out for six weeks) is a savvy move. Are Deandre Ayton and Jabari Smith safe holds despite the low games?

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0:00.0

Let's take a look at week five in the NBA.

0:04.1

A busier week that we've had recently,

0:05.9

so let's break it all down, Michael Bolton.

0:09.5

Thanks, Josh.

0:10.7

It's Michael Bolton here,

0:12.1

and it's time for another episode

0:13.7

of the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast.

0:17.7

Let's get to it.

0:18.6

Let's get to it.

0:19.4

Indeed.

0:21.4

You are Locked- on Fantasy. Your daily NBA fantasy podcast.

0:26.6

Part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day.

0:32.8

Hello and welcome to the Locked On Fantasy Basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster. My name is Josh Lloyd and Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions. I'm also the lead fantasy analyst at Basketballmonster.com. And today's episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the GameTime app, create an account and use the code LockdownMBA for $20 off your first purchase. Thank you also for making lockdown fantasy basketball your first listen every day.

0:57.1

We're free and available in all platforms, but we're also the number one sports podcast network.

1:01.0

So thank you to you guys for helping us get there, and thank you for you for helping me to push towards 100K subs.

1:06.5

We were almost there.

1:07.7

Almost there, and if you haven't done it yet, I would appreciate you doing it.

1:11.5

Let's talk week five. Before we do that, again, just, you know, sometimes you

1:16.4

guys like updates. I am running on the new PC. For all intents and purposes, it's working well.

1:25.0

And then sometimes I go to record and everything just turns to crap and it

1:28.2

goes completely slowly on the transitions and the crackle is there and I don't know what to do.

1:32.9

And I'm incredibly frustrated with it and it's annoying me. I think, I think at the moment this one's

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