Welcome to the Fantasy NBA today podcast. Take a deep breath in everybody.

Take a deep breath in everybody.

Take a deep breath out.

You made it to the all-star break.

And now you get to sit back, relax, not worry about fantasy basketball for a couple of days.

Cruising, man. It's Easy Street.

I'll tell you exactly why my show opening rant here you don't want to make a move

until we get closer to the end of the all-star break and the big reason there is that players come back healthy after the

all-star break some of them and some don't and a lot of what we're looking at

right now is injury stream related.

We made it through the trade deadline. We had our key pickups there.

One of them is heard already.

Curse you, Colin Sexton. But now we're back into a stretch where, at least over the last week or so, most of what we're dealing with is who's filling in for who.

Yes, we're not that far away from the time when we're going to start to look at the pivot teams.

And what I mean by that are the clubs that are kind of hanging on right now, which largely Eastern Conference actually.

The Western Conference, the Hangarons are right now, the Lakers, the Blazers and the Jazz.

You can talk about the Thunder too in case they kind of go the wrong direction but you know I think you have a pretty good feel for what a lot of these teams are

The Jazz are trending down the blazers are trending down the Lakers are actually probably going to trend up a little bit, but regardless, that's such a dog fight for that 10 slot out west, and you know the Lakers are not about to throw in the towel.

I honestly don't know if there's a team in the Western conference that's going to go into shutdown mode early. The most likely among all those teams at the bottom would be the jazz because they've been moving pieces away

They've been leaning a little bit harder into youth

We know they're not as good without Mike Conley. He's gone now.

They're definitely not going to be as good without Colin Sexton.

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