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First games of 2026, New Year's Day, five games on a Thursday.

So let's get in and talk about them before we do it.

A bit of news and a few updates that we were very much waiting on.

And I think they've sort of come out as we expected or as we spoke about yesterday,

and that's updates to injuries on a couple of centres.

Victor Wemmyne Yama, it appears to have avoided significant injury. He is out for Friday's game, but he's going to be listed as questionable for Saturday's game. My initial thought was he may not miss any time, and if he does it, it'll be a short amount of time. And then on the preview show, I did label him doubtful for Friday. So I think there's a chance he

play Saturday, if not after that. So adding Luke Cornett, which we'll talk about in the second, is okay in the short-term scenario, but I don't think it's a long-term situation. The one we were more worried about is in Denver, with Jonas Valentunus popping a calf. And it's at least four weeks, which means that you're going to get, if you added even with Yoki

Jarrett, you're going to get, if you add it even

with Yoki Jarrett, you're going to get a half of a game because they might come back at the same

time. Now, the replacement to the replacement is probably Dayron Holmes, but it's hard to get

excited here for numerous reasons. He's a rookie who's played 35 minutes in his career. He's coming off a torn

Achilles last season. Maybe they go with Zik Naji. Maybe they go small with Peyton Watson. And then

you've got the impending return of Aaron Gordon, who will also be limited and sit back to backs

as he returns from soft tissue injuries, and then Christian Brown in the coming days.

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