Friday's got eight games on. It's the beginning of the NBA Cup. Courts, not as crazy. Games,

probably still pretty crazy. Michael Bolton. Thanks, Josh. It's Michael Bolton here, and it's time

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We're here and we're looking at the look ahead for Friday with eight games on a relatively busy Friday, like we said, NBA Cup is happening.

I guess let's find out what the big stories are.

What are the three major things that I think that we need to be focused on for the games on Friday? We don't have any crazy early starts or late starts or anything like that.

Trey Young being out, that is confirmed. He is out now Now, at the time of me recording this, I do not have a diagnosis. All we know is out knee sprain, which tells us nothing. It doesn't mean anything. We haven't heard the results, and hopefully by the end of this show, I can check back in and give you an actual diagnosis. But seeing, now, we think that it's going to be Nikila Alexander Walker,

but it very easily could be Keaton Wallace. They could start Michael P. Keaton Wallace at point guard.

Alexander Walker plays his 32, 33, 3 off the bench. What that does is it doesn't impact

Alexander Walker's value. It just bumps Wallace's up. Or they could decide they're going to start the duck, Luke Kennard. So we just keep an eye on that, obviously. The Sun's weirdos, who do I mean by that? Well, Grayson Allen's a part of it, but it's mainly Colin Gillespie and Roy Soneil, two guys are absolutely popping off. But of course, what happens if Dylan Brooks plays? What happens if Jalen Green plays?

What happens if they both play? How do they figure that rotation? Because you're going to have Alan, you got have O'Neill, and you have Gillespie, who have all been good, and recently have been putting up 12-team numbers, along with what Brooks was doing, and Booker has been doing, and now Mark Williams is going off. Like, how does it work in together? and the Palicans rotations.

Are we going to honestly get DeAndre Jordan starting again?

I think that might have been a... Williams is going off. Like, how does it work in together? And the Palacons rotations. Are we

going to honestly get DeAndre Jordan starting again? I think that might have been a, hey,

we'll play you against your former team, which honestly, when you see those things happen,

when you see a coach, make a move for somebody to play a larger role or a weird start because

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