Welcome to the Fantasy NBA today podcast. Yo! My children are at school today. You got energized Vespers this morning.

I guess it's the afternoon for you East Coasters.

Not for me. I had a few things I had to take care of this morning before we could

launch headlong into the show. I know we're like maybe a half an hour later than usual,

but that doesn't really bother me because I have a quiet house.

There's this silly old draft board behind me.

You guys can see it if you're watching the show.

And on the other side of that is a dog, a 10-year-old dog, that's the only sounds we'll hear in the house.

Other than hopefully not a whole lot of like weather beating the outside the rain has very much mellowed out today.

Still drizzling but I mean it's like not even remotely close to what we had going on yesterday it was

it was it was something fierce I don't know if you guys saw the videos of what was going on

supposed to mellow out I think completely by later

on this evening. Hopefully all of you guys, wherever you may be, you're not too severely impacted

and I know what, I know Brus know Bruski was well he's in surgery

right now has nothing to do with the rainstorms but I know he lost his power for like

half a day but I do want to start today's show by wishing the great Aaron

Bruski a safe surgery he's talked about it on Twitter I think he's mentioned

it here on the show as well he was initially diagnosed a couple years ago with a carpal tunnel

variant that did not turn out to be the correct diagnosis. He had a surgery

for that that didn't help. He is under the knife today for surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome. Most of you in the sports world probably tie that to Stephen Strasbourg.

It's probably the highest profile athlete who's had the surgery for that and

I know that he's sort of never been the same but he is functional again which is what we're

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