Sustainable or Smoke? Breaking Down the Night’s Fantasy Trends

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Bruski and Dr. A analyze the night’s biggest stat lines and dig deeper into what’s sustainable versus short-term noise. From emerging contributors to shifting rotations and category boosts, this episode focuses on actionable fantasy insight that helps you make sharper roster decisions.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Fantasy NBA today.
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0:14.2	So make sure you go check it out.
0:15.8	As we always do with this show, we're going to take a look at all the news impacting Fantasy basketball.
0:20.2	Let's start with Jalen Smith out Tuesday. Doc. That's brutal, right? Like, it's something we've been talking
0:26.4	about for three or four weeks now, the injury risk with this guy and some of the bad stat categories
0:31.0	that he has has really just taken the, you know, the fun out of Jalen Smith. Definitely not a league
0:37.0	winner. I don't think you
0:37.9	should have been promoted as such, but I think you got to hang on here. What do you do, Doc?
0:42.9	I don't know. Yeah, you're willing to move on. Yeah. I think so. I've seen enough, dude.
0:48.3	I've seen enough for four or five years now. He was supposed to, Rick Carlyleau came out like four years ago.
0:55.5	He's like,
0:55.9	oh,
0:56.2	Jalen Smith's our starting power forward. And everybody went nuts. Like, oh, man, I'm drafting Jim Smith. I got excited about it too. Yeah, I meant that one up too. Nothing. And, and now, oh, James Smith, the only big man left in Chicago.
1:09.8	Look out.
1:10.3	He's going to dominate.
1:11.4	No, he's not.
1:13.1	He's always hurt.
1:14.5	And he's going to dominate.
1:11.4	No, he's not.
1:13.1	He's always hurt.
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