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We are available on all platforms. Of course, a bonus Friday night recap. I don't know when the next one of these will be, but it's here, it's now. And we're going to talk about the games because there were performances that we wanted to see. There are injury updates that we got. And I might as well just talk about that now because this team does not play today, and that is Kevin Porter Jr. Who was ramping up to return from his ankle and then suffered a knee injury. Now he has to have surgery on a meniscus injury. They're saying at least four weeks. Very shocked if he's back in four. That's a minor meniscus. Anytime you cut and open your knee, it's not minor for a start. That's, yeah, four is just ridiculous, best case, case unbelievable scenario it's probably six maybe eight

and then some limitations on that so ryan rollins let's cook and by then i guess gives more

opportunities for him to have some struggles that porter can come back in or to really establish

himself if you need to drop kevin porter go and do it right you can't be waiting for a player that might not even start when he comes back. See you later. Bye-bye. Rollins, obviously, just a must-rossed player right across the board. No questions about that. There's going to be ups and downs without any sort of hesitation in saying that. But we're in a pretty good spot now with that news on Kevin Porter, which is terrible if you've drafted Kevin Porter.

And then great if you've picked up Ryan Rollins, which I'm in the have the case for both.

So yeah, it's sort of a bit of sweet moment for myself and my teams, but why would you care about my fantasy teams?

You wouldn't and you shouldn't.

Should we talk games? Should we get straight into the first game of the day? We should because this is what we're going to bang out on a Friday here.

Saturday for me. The Atlanta Hawks and the Indiana Pacers, we still don't have an update on Rayford Young.

He did tweet out something like God doesn't make mistakes. I'd be like, Trey. Like, bro, we've both got some problems up top. But I don't know what that means in regards to his knee. Apparently, the MRI took longer to be done because they're on the road, now he's here. I just don't know. Allegedly, we find out tomorrow about the results of this MRI. It sounds as though he's got the results, so I honestly, I don't know. I would say it sounds bad, but it's speculation, man. Like, I just, I couldn't tell you. I couldn't tell you. The other injury update we got is about Obert Topin, which we'll talk about when we get to the paces a little bit later on.

Let's talk about the Hawks who beat the paces of this game. So we'll talk about when we get to the paces side. The hawks beat the paces 128-108, and if you are watching this live on YouTube or watching it later on YouTube, and you're complaining about the box score, I'm with you. ESPN out nowhere, just decided to change the formatting of their box score. I don't put those box scores together manually. ESPN just said, right, we're changing it. Okay. So I'm on the lookout for something that's a little bit better. I haven't found it yet. I am still canvassing and looking and maybe I do something bespoke, although I don't have the skills to do it, but that is why it's annoying and it looks different. It was Nikiel Alexander Walker that started. He played 32 minutes in place of Trey. He had 21, 3 and 3 with two steals. Absolute must roster player while young is out. He was a must roster guy anyway, and now he's even more. There are going to be people who are worried about Christas Bollingeras. He only played 23 minutes here.

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