Hello, everybody, and welcome to fantasy NBA today, a sports ethos presentation brought to you by our great partners at Vandul. If you're looking to win your fantasy league, you're definitely in the right place. We've got a great show lined up today as we break down the week ahead. We're going to take a look at which teams are the best schedules and identify the players that you guys should consider streaming. Quick shout out to all of our new listeners. More and more of you guys are tuning in. And whether you guys are new to the show or longtime supporters, we are definitely glad that you are here. All right, let's break down the week ahead. We've got low traffic days on Monday, six games, Tuesday, seven games, Wednesday, seven games. Hey, oh, Friday, six games, Sunday, six games. a little bit of a light week for us here. And then Thursday and Saturday, we've got just nine games. So plan your vacations accordingly. Games per team, we've got the Lakers of a five game week. We'll focus a lot of our attention there. 12 teams with four games, 13 teams with three games, and then four teams with two games. and those are the Orlando Magic, the Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks and Memphis Grizzlies.

All right.

Two teams have a back to back.

We've got the Lakers or probably two back to backs correction there.

It's definitely the Lakers with their five game week.

And then Denver with their two back to backs.

You'll be looking at a lot of guys.

I'll look at Jamal Murray, probably Christian Browns at risk, Aaron Gordon, obviously,

and maybe even a few guys after that.

So Denver really going to kind of grind through this next week here and limp their way to

the All-Star break.

I wouldn't be shocked if we saw Nicola

Yokic come back like two weeks ahead of his timetable. So if you're in a bylaw where you can

actually rip Nicola Yokic out of somebody's cold dead hands, do it. All right, let's go get this thing

going. Let's start here with the Lakers. And of course, they play Monday, Tuesday,

Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. The only team of the league with a back-to-back on Monday,

Tuesday. So he has so much streaming potential here. Right now, Marcus Smart, I think, is maybe the,

not the best streamer on this squad, but he's maybe the guy that's not the obvious one, because I think

Jake LaRavia at this point is obvious. He's been on a heater lately, and yeah, you know, as LeBron has kind of come back and had some bigger games, yeah, that's hurt Jake LaRavia a little bit here, but he has been a mid-round guy over the last couple weeks, slowing down lately, just to be clear, but with five games in a week and you're going to get LeBron sitting in at least probably

two of those games, I would think. Jake LaRavie's got all sorts of ramp, all sorts of minutes. He's a must roster player at this point in time just to get to the end of this week and we'll see what happens next. Smart is a little bit more iffy, but I think he is actually a must stream player for some team in your league.

He's just going to accumulate so many stats.

And then Rui Hachimura, he's getting back here right now as we record this on Friday, soonish.

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