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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Josh Lloyd dives deep into the biggest late-season risers like Quentin Grimes, Josh Giddey, and Paolo Banchero. Are these second-half surges legit or fueled by injuries, tanking teams, and meaningless March stats? This episode breaks down which players’ jumps were sustainable, who benefited from weird team situations, and how it all reshapes your fantasy basketball draft board.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about players who really burnt into our memories, put up big numbers in the fantasy playoffs at the second half of the season after the trade deadline.
0:09.1	Does it mean anything?
0:11.4	Michael Bolton.
0:12.1	Thanks, Josh.
0:13.3	It's Michael Bolton here.
0:14.7	And it's time for another episode of the locked-on fantasy basketball podcast.
0:20.0	Let's get to it. Let's get to it. Indeed.
0:24.1	You are Locked-on Fantasy. Your daily NBA Fantasy podcast. Part of the Locked-on
0:30.3	Podcast Network, your team every day. Hello and welcome to the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball
0:39.8	Monster. My name is Josh Lloyd and I'm so fresh and so clean. I'm also the lead fantasy
0:44.6	analyst at Basketballmonster.com and today's episode is brought to you by Fangio. Right now,
0:48.4	new customers can get $150 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. Thank you also for making
0:53.7	locked-on fantasy basketball your first listen every day.. Thank you also for making locked on fantasy basketball
0:54.7	your first listen every day. We are free and we are available on all platforms. So this is a show
1:00.6	again that I have pre-recorded. I'm recording this on the 3rd of July. It is going out about two
1:05.9	weeks after that. The data that I present here doesn't change. Maybe some of the analysis could slightly change
1:12.5	depending on what happens. And there are a couple players we're going to talk about in today's show
1:16.3	that currently sit as restricted free agents. I just expect they're back on their teams,
1:21.0	but I don't know. But what we're more trying to highlight is how big things can change from
1:26.2	first half to second half and again i want
1:29.4	everybody to understand that as a general rule you put skepticism you put skepticism onto performances
1:35.7	in march and april which is the majority of the second half so we're doing trade deadline as the
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