When To Draft Injured Players | The Truth About Risk & Reward in Fantasy Basketball

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When should you draft injured or injury-prone players in fantasy basketball? Josh Lloyd breaks it down using real examples like Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis, Kristaps Porziņģis, Zion Williamson, and Kawhi Leonard.

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0:00.0	There are a lot of players who are either hurt, injury prone, susceptible to tanking.
0:06.1	So what do you do in a fantasy draft?
0:07.8	When do you take him?
0:09.0	Michael Bolton, he's going to give me some answers.
0:11.5	Thanks, Josh.
0:12.7	It's Michael Bolton here.
0:14.0	And it's time for another episode of the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast.
0:19.5	Let's get to it.
0:21.6	Let's get to it. Let's get to it.
0:22.0	Indeed.
0:25.4	You are Locked on Fantasy.
0:28.1	Your daily NBA Fantasy podcast.
0:33.3	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:42.4	Hello and welcome to the Locked On Fantasy Basket basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster.
0:46.7	My name is Josh Lloyd and there is no longer a hole in my bucket.
0:52.8	I'm also the lead fantasy analyst at Basketballmonster.com and today's episode is brought to you by Banangel. Right now, new customers can bet just
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1:03.3	listen every day. We are free and we are available on all platforms. So we're talking about.
1:08.4	Injured players. There are different categorizations here, like I've said.
1:12.2	There are players who literally are currently injured. There are players who you think are going to get injured.
1:17.1	There are players that we worry about when they're going to be available on tanking teams and how often they're going to play.
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