Welcome to the Fantasy NBA today podcast. I got to say of all the days for me to be fighting the laryngitis this is not a great one

to show Monday but damn it're going to get through these bad boys.

This is the weekly preview show also known as the weekly lineup show also known as the week ahead

Podcast iteration also known as the week ahead podcast iteration

also known as just fantasy NBA today

I'm your host Dan Bespris and I am joined

as always

on our weekly preview shows by D-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-all. I will call him also Derek, but I like that. I like that damn handle. D-B-B's cracking my man?

Dan, I'm just living the dream today.

You know, it's been, it's not so nice where I am.

We got our first snow of the year up in Ottawa,

so I'm happy to be cooped up nice and warm indoors talking basketball with you and everyone else out there.

I'm going to just check my phone real quick. I don't go outside very often because you know I'm a I'm a vampire but it is 78 degrees in Los Angeles

today and it's going to be 81 each of the next two days before dropping down

to a frigid 73 a week from today.

So, you know, we're in a tight spot over here.

My voice is cooked if people can't tell. I'm fighting way through it it's it's this damn cold

that the kids have brought and I know you're actually fighting something as well but

between the two of us two of us at 50% strength we can make one competent weekly preview.

Derek by the way you can all find on Twitter at the name that I actually called him when he came on the show which is D-ball, B-ball, I am at Dan B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B things of that nature because last week Derek we talked a bit about how

streaming in week one can be a bit of a double-edged sword you might win one

extra category in a given week and that's good but you might also

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