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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the All Things Basketball Podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode I'll be doing my fantasy basketball 101.

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I'll be telling you all the things you need to know about fantasy basketball.

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I'll even slip in a few players that I'm targeting, some that I'm not bothering with.

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So just sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay guys so it's your boy GD back once again with the All Things Basketball Podcast with your truly GD.

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And this episode I'm totally going to geek out on this one because this is one of the things I love to talk about.

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And it is fantasy basketball.

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I'm going to give you my fantasy basketball 101.

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What is fantasy basketball?

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Well it's much like fantasy football.

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It's a season long league that consists of players that you draft and the leagues can be either free or they can be cash leagues.

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Where you put in a set amount of money at the end of the year, there's a pool of money there that you can win.

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So you have those options there.

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And you have regular leagues and then you have what you call dynasty leagues or keeper leagues.

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A keeper league is where you get to keep a certain number of players from the following season.

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So let's say you have a 15 man roster and you're in a keeper league and you're able to keep five of those guys.

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So you pick the five that you want and they'll carry over to the following season.

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That's how a dynasty or keeper league works.

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And usually when you join those leagues you pretty much have to make a commitment of X amount of years that you're going to be in the league.

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I've never done keeper leagues so that's the best I can explain in that regard.

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That's your keeper leagues.

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But what I'm going to focus on is regular league.

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Now with that said, let me tell you about the types of leagues.

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And there's five major types of leagues.

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You have your head to head leagues which consist of three types of head to head leagues.

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There's head to head points.

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Head to head points is where you compete against another team for like a week's time.

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Whoever compiles the most points in that given week wins the week.

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So it's basically one win based on the accumulation of points that you have.

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And the league can be basically your standard leagues are eight to nine categories.

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That's pretty much standards and leagues can go from four teams up to 20 teams.

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I've seen 20 team leagues never played in them but I've seen that.

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And the more teams you have the more extensive the research you have to do within the league.

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So you want to be able to have bench depth with guys that you know will get the minutes

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and so forth.

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But again the larger the league the more players you have to know.

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So bear that in mind.

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For example with the points league let's say points like scoring wise is one point each.

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Three point goals maybe three points.

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Rebounds one point.

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Assists one point.

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Your steals and blocks are usually a higher amount of points from your regular points.

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Rebounds assists those sort of things.

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They may be let's say five points for steals and for blocks.

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And then you have turnovers that's usually a minus usually minus one or can even go to

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minus two three so forth.

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That's how you accumulate points guys.

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So more points you score once again that gives your team the win.

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That's points and head to head points is one of the more popular leagues actually is pretty

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popular in both ESPN especially ESPN and your Yahoo league.

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Let's transition to head to head categories and the categories can be.

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Oh with the points the categories can be just one category.

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Like for instance I have a league that's purely scoring so that's where the concentration

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is not anywhere else.

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I'm actually in league where it's just rebounds only rebounds so you can have leagues like

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that.

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Let me go back to head to head categories.

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So you can have as little as three categories scoring rebounding assists.

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You can go that way.

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Your standards are usually eight or nine categories.

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Eight categories would exclude turnovers and your nine category would include turnovers.

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Me personally I prefer not to have turnovers as a category because to me turnovers they're

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fluky at least in my eyes so why even have it there so that's just me.

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But again most of your leagues nine categories more likely than not turnovers is one of those

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categories.

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And again it's similar to points you compete against another team for weeks time usually

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from Monday to Sunday and the only difference with categories head to head and points head

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to head categories for each category you end up with the most you get a win for that.

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Let's say it's a nine category league if you win in points rebounds assists usually field

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goal percentage free throw percentage and three pointers made as well as steals and

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blocks and also turnovers.

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If you lead in all four of those categories you go nine and 0 for the week.

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If you lead in eight of those categories eight and one you lead in seven of those categories

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seven and two you get to just a bit.

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And if you lose every single category as a 0 and nine that's not good.

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That is your categories league head to head then you have head to head most categories

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if you win in the most categories let's say in a nine category league you're winning

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in points rebounds assists steals and blocks but you're losing and free throw percentage

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field goal percentage threes and turnovers you still win the week because you have five

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out of nine so it's five and four so you win the week so that's how that works so it's

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one win which is similar to head to head points where accumulation of points you only get

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the one win.

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Yeah so that's the way head to head works it still works with categories but the person

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who wins the most categories for the week gets the win that's how that works.

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Those are your three type head to head leagues then you have a total points league where

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you can go as little as six teams but you can go beyond that obviously.

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Where your competing against actually the entire league it's similar to rotisserie which

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I'll talk about in a minute and it's whoever has the most points in a variety of categories

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wins the league so if you accumulate so many points as far as points scored rebounds assists

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and all those things you win for the entire league never played in one of those I played

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in all the head to heads all the types of head to heads but not that and then your last

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one is rotisserie which they also call roto leagues again like the total points you're

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competing against the entire league each and every week and you get points from your

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rankings each week so for instance let's say your team scored the most points for the week

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and you're in a 10 team league if your first place you will get 10 points second place

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nine points third place eight points and so on so forth if you lose the league you're

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in 10th place zero points and then at the end of the year the amount of points you accumulated

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over the duration of a season is how you win the league I played roto before and roto is

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not for the faint of heart that's for sure you really got to stay on top of your team

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in categories and stuff I mean you still have to do it with those other types of leagues

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and you really have to draft for balance you want balance you want of course obviously

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people score people who can rebound assists usually in the roto leagues it's usually field

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goal percentage and free throw percentage you definitely want big men who can sink their

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free throws and of course pretty proficient from the field don't want let's say a Mitchell

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Robinson type of center you don't want that unless you are heavy in the free throw percentage

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that it can offset his numbers then you got a chance but you don't want to hinder yourself

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with a guy who will drag your rankings down so that's something to bear in mind but roto

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league is entertaining as well categories we talked about categories so let me give

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you the most common I think I did already points scored obviously rebounds assists

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steals blocks and now they've made up a term stocks which is a combination of steals and

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block you want guys who can give you plenty of stocks also amongst the common ones is

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field goal percentage free throw percentage and three point goals may which makes for

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eight categories and then the ninth category would be turnovers like I mentioned in a nine

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category league more likely than not it includes turnovers in a eight category league it probably

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does not include turnover again I'm one who doesn't like to play with turnovers I don't

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like that here's some other categories you have field goals made free throws made now

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I have a league that I've had around for a while and it's actually the black mamba

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league of course name for the late great Kobe Bryant but actually when I started the league

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he was still alive upon his passing I changed the name of the league to the black mamba

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memorial league but in that league I do field goals made and free throws may I don't use

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the percentages so here's that also for categories you have three point goal percentage double

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doubles course that's double digits and points and rebounds or points and assists and triple

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doubles of course you know triple doubles as double digits and scoring rebounds and assists

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it's rare that you see a league that has quadruple doubles in its categories because

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it happens very rarely very rarely but you usually see double doubles triple doubles

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also more nuanced categories you have minutes played per game that could be fluke as well

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also assists the turnover ratio you have that as a category fouls you have as a category

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flagrant files as a category ejections as a category to me that's I can't get into that

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I can't get into fouls I can't get in flagrant fouls and ejections amongst your categories

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that's just beyond the pale for me and then you have a category team win like that night

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your player for the team wins you get points for that I mean it's a myriad of these categories

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here again I don't like to go too much beyond eight categories I've been in leagues where

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double doubles are amongst the points and so forth so if I see double doubles and triple

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doubles that's okay that's fine but I prefer eight category league without the turnovers

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that that's my preference that is your categories guys then you have the types of drafts you

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have an offline draft where your team is predetermined for you offline some people like that and

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then they could go and make the changes me I rather have my hands on drafting the team

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and picking the team that's just me and then you have live drafts where it can be one of

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three types of live drafts there's the snake draft which is the most common where first

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round goes in order let's say it's 10 team league one through 10 and then coming back

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up you're going to reverse the order so the 10 pick would also pick the 11 pick and then

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the 9th pick will be picking 12 the 8th pick 13th and so on so forth and then once you

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hit the 20 mark you come back around to the person who picked first overall when the draft

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started so that's the way a snake draft works linear draft by bending a couple of these

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wherever it's determined you're slotted to draft you stay that way each and every round

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which is similar to the NBA where whatever a team drafts in the next round they usually

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draft in that order that's what linear is which I like but it's pretty rare to find

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linear drafts let me just say that and then you have your random drafts which is even

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more scarce where you can draft in one position in one round and then go to somewhere else

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in the next round I don't like that because I don't think you can prepare yourself for

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a draft if it's random I mean you can you can know all the players so on so forth but

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to me it's a certain symmetry to knowing here you're drafting this way you can kind of especially

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in those leagues where you have a half hour before the draft where you can go into the

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draft lobby this way you see where you're slotted at and you can kind of do the research

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right then and there so with a random I guess you could still do that too but you have to

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know where you're picking each and every round going down so yeah random nah nah I can't get

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with that that's your three types of drafts and then you have salary cap or auction drafts

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where I'm not nuanced in it because I have never done an auction draft never I'll tell

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you to the best of my ability it's where owners draft from a set budget on players dependent

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on their value and from what I understand you can nominate players then they set a value

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then you bid for said player and so forth again I'm not well versed in auction drafts

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so I can only give you the layman's definition well I've heard is once you go auction draft

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you don't want to draft any other way some people they swear by it so I have to include

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it in this discussion then you have rosters they usually consist of guards forwards and

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centers most of your standard leagues whether it be yahoo whether it be ESPN you're drafting

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in a standard league 13 rounds you're drafting whether it be eight teams 10 teams on so forth

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it's 13 players that you're drafting so it's 13 rounds and yahoo this is how it shakes

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out point guard shooting guard guard small forward power forward forward then you have

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center center and after that you have utility utility which means you can slot any player

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there regardless of whether they're a guard forward or center and then your bench is a

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three man bench so that's how that works out and then in ESPN league it usually shakes

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out point guard shooting guard guard small forward powerful forward center only one center

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and then you have three utility players instead of the two and then you have three bench players

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so that's how it is on ESPN that's your standard leagues if you join a custom league this is

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a league where he creates categories he creates a point system if it's a points league and

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then he creates rosters how rosters shake out and roster size and positions can vary

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in custom leagues I've been in leagues where it's 15 rounds I've been in leagues where

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was more than 15 rounds in fact I just did a draft it was 17 rounds and the positions

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that's varied they varied you also can be in leagues where it's just guard guard forward

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center in other words you can slot any type of guard into the guard position whether it

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be point guard or shooting guard any type of forward you can slot in small forward powerful

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it wouldn't matter and center and then in most of your leagues they'll have players

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that play multiple positions whether it be point guard shooting guard let's say I'll give

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you example Donovan Mitchell for the Cleveland Cavaliers I've seen him slider as a point

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guard and as the shooting guard although we know primarily he plays shooting guard but

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they also slot him as a point guard Kevin Durant let's use another example for the

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Phoenix Suns sometimes they well they have them slider as a small forward slash power

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forward in other words he can play both forward positions so they listed as such in fantasy

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as well then take a guy like Anthony Davis for the Los Angeles Lakers they'll slot him

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as a powerful slash center whereas he can play the power forward he can play the center

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so you have that also that is your explanation of the roster size and actually the black

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mama league that I told you that I run I only use five starters two guards two forwards

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the center and have a 10 player bench and I use this is a Yahoo league I use entry

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list plus I don't use entry lists and I'll explain that in a minute so I have a deep

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bench five starters so it kind of forces you to think who are the best guys I can slot

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into these positions here someone who could give me balance the scoring the rebound assist

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who's good on steals blocks or I may have a person that's or a couple of players that's

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dominant in one area and few players that may not so the stronger players carry the

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low for the other players I may have a few guys that can block shots in there just where

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I can cover myself I'll have like a guy who's like a you know amongst the top 10 types and

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blocks but I'll also have somebody in there as well who's proficient in blocking shots

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also so it works itself out nonetheless now in terms of the injured list I just mentioned

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that in Yahoo that's why I like Yahoo leagues sorry ESPN I like Yahoo leagues because you

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have the injured lists and you have injured lists plus this is where you could put injured

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players the difference is I L is longer term injuries I L plus is short term and those

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were created actually the I L plus was created right after the pandemic 2020 2021 why was

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it created because guys were missing games because of COVID so instead of putting them

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as a long term injury they just put them as I L plus so you know eventually the person

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is going to come back once they're cleared so Yahoo created this I think this was one

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of the best inventions that they've done in terms of the fantasy basketball that's for

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sure so now you could put guys in there who's like gave time decisions you can slot them

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in there if you want you can slide a guy who's going to be out of game you can slide a guy

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who has a long term injury but that's if you don't have regular injured lists or I L position

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I just use I L plus for the black mama league I told you about and then ESPN what they do

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they have an IR and this is where you could place players who are declared either out

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or they have a long term injury and thankfully ESPN has it where an out player can be slot

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it in there thankfully so that doesn't jam you up too much maybe you need to fill that

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slot with somebody you can stick them in the IR and then go get somebody off the waiver

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wire all the other thing I want to talk about I've mentioned waiver wire it's mostly free

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agents on there it's not like football where you got wait for Wednesday and you go pick

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up somebody once a player is dropped then you have X amount of days before you can make

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a claim on that player that's the way that works but most of the time if the player

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is already out there on the waiver wire they're pretty much like free agents you could just

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pick them up but a drop player you may have to wait a few days for you to get them depending

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on the league and then trades trades I'll just say in trading guys you don't want to

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be ridiculous with trades you don't want to say offer somebody like Nick Claxton and

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maybe a Jalen Brunson for Nikolai Yokek that deal is probably not going to fly and you

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probably get laughed off by the person who actually has the Joker that type of trade

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probably won't fly although it may sound like it's a good trade but you're not getting

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value for value doing that yeah so you don't want to make too many lopsided offers then

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you won't be taken serious I guess that's what I'm getting at that's something to bear

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in mind when making these trade offers so with that said what tips can I give you guys

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can I offer you guys firstly prepare for your draft by all means prepare for your draft

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I usually go out there and buy a magazine Street and Smith no Lindy I'm sorry it used

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to be Street Smith Lindy is the one you go to for pro basketball like they'll give their

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season previews if you will of each team then they have a little section for fantasy basketball

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as well that you can utilize also I like looking at each team this way I can understand the

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depth chart better I know which players that I think will pop and which players may not

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so prepare prepare prepare guys don't be that guy who in a draft where oh I even explain

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that part Bob do it now also what happens is during the draft you're given a set amount

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of seconds or minutes to draft some have it set for one minute I think one minute is fine

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I think that's fine I've seen 30 second drafts I love those because you have to be prepared

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with 30 second draft you have to be prepared especially in the case where somebody above

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you takes a guy that you want you gotta be quick to know how to pivot and have a plan

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be a plan C so forth 45 seconds I like those two 90 seconds I think is a bit much two minutes

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is absurd is absolutely absurd I would never be a part of a league where the draft you're

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given a team two minutes before they pick because you know something guys you give a team two

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minutes a team is going to take two minutes and that slows down the draft to a halt all

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90 seconds I'm pulling out my hair it's about people wait until the last second definitely

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you have to be prepared so let's put that out there don't be afraid to draft your guys

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maybe guys that you're targeting that you want by any means necessary you want that

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guy don't be afraid to go around or too higher to get him I'll tell you some of the guys

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I'm targeting right now Scotty Barnes of the Toronto Raptors from what I'm reading and

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hearing especially from the new coach over there right jocovic the new coach for the

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Toronto Raptors it sounds like they're putting the ball squarely in the hands of Scotty Barnes

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have him be the playmaker I know they have in the shoulder I understand that I get that

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but I think he's going to pop this year Scotty Barnes will he's someone I'm starting to target

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also in my drafts I'm targeting Titus Jones of the Washington Wizards I understand I get

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it everybody's going Gaga over Jordan pool and rightfully so but I think Titus Jones

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will have a major impact over there especially from a fantasy perspective so I like Titus

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Jones also I like Trey Jones of the San Antonio Spurs I like him also somebody's going to

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have to run that offense over there and of course Wim Lee I've been in a few drafts

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people are drafting him high I've taken him in one draft higher than what he's supposed

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to be about around I think he'll be a fun player to have on your roster but Trey Jones

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is who I'm talking about if I were to lose out on the Titus Jones I would mind drafting

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the Trey Jones in this place or even just drafting them both also someone that I'm

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targeting been maffering I'm targeting I think it seems like Indiana's pretty much washed

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their hands of Buddy Heald are trying to move him but I think been maffering I think his

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sophomore year I think he's gonna be able to produce with that team so I like been maffering

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I understand I get it they brought in OB Toppin but shoot OB Toppin he's got a beat out Jarray

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Swalker so that's a whole another issue but I like been maffering and I'm gonna say a

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name that people may cringe about but Ben Simmons Ben Simmons I think is incumbent upon the

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nets to at least feature him if not for anything else if Ben Simmons is healthy he's gonna

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put up some good numbers shooting percentage may be another story but the numbers itself

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I have no issue whatsoever drafting Ben Simmons because you're drafting them late so you know

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you take a fly on them see what happens so Ben Simmons is someone I've been targeting

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low risk high reward so we'll see Mark Williams I think with that Charlotte team and no one

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in sight who can rebound the ball like him and I've been drafting them in drafts also

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another guy Daniel Galford for the Washington Wizards they have a list of his power for

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which I don't understand because I thought they were gonna put Kyle Kuzma in that position

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and have him play center so in any event I like Gafford especially for blocks I think

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he's gonna be able to give you a ton of blocks there I hear people down playing Walker Kessler

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I don't know why I guess I know why you have a John Collins that you just brought in you

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still have Kelly Olnick but I think he's gonna give them big minutes at the center position

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and I think he's somebody you can target also guys I'm staying away from Chris Paul I want

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no parts of Chris Paul because I know Steve Kerr says he's wants to start him by I think

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eventually they're gonna make a choice to slide him to the bench I think that's gonna

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end up happening Chris Paul is someone I'm not targeting Kawhi I'm on the fence about

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Kawhi I know they put all these rules in place I get that but he's just hard to trust man

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he's hard to trust if he were to slide down in the draft maybe I would scoop him up but

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at his current ADP or ADP by the way is average draft position but at his current ADP I can't

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risk it that high you want guys that are solid eyes that are gonna play I much rather take

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a mckel bridges over Kawhi Leonard I'm sorry that's the way I feel about that because I

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know mckel bridges is gonna be out there Kawhi that's a whole other issue so Kawhi is someone

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I'm fading on I know people are down on Rudy go bear I would still draft him because I

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would probably give him a mulligan because he was without calling me towns who could

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have probably took some of the load away from him yeah I'm not that down on Rudy go bear

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as other people are Jalen Green with all the moves they made over there I am not sold on

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him because I think they're gonna distribute the ball out to other guys Jalen Green I think

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he'll be fine I just don't think he's gonna shine away people think that's just me Kate

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Cunningham is a guy who at his current ADP I'm not that thrilled with and Jaten Ivy

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lot of people are down on him I don't understand why and I even saw where Monty Williams had

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him coming off the bench in preseason but it's no way he can go with Alec Burks over

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Ivy he can't do it I'm high on Ivy I think he'll be fine I think he'll be okay but Kate

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Cunningham I'm not as sold as everybody else is on him maybe it's me I don't know oh I'm

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sorry a player that I'm thinking hard and long about Deandre Aten I mentioned that maybe

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a couple episodes ago I love the fact that Portland wants him and I think they're gonna

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feature him I understand I get it Robert Williams the third is there now but you know he's injury

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prone so you're gonna have to monitor his minutes monitor him from game to game as far

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as where to sit him so forth but Deandre Aten's one who I would be targeting also alright

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guys so that is my fantasy basketball episode I did promise it to you so here it is guys

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I'm gonna push this one out before the weekend comes I got a big event coming up so definitely

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want to get this episode out because the next time you'll hear from me it will be my season

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preview so I'll be doing a preview of the season I'll tell you who will finish where

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as far as what I see I'll give you my early postseason award predictions as well alright

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guys so as always I thank you for listening all things basketball with GD.com that is

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we spoke on IG and just want to give him a shout out he's been listening for a while

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Kevin I'm working on thing we talked about so thank you for listening I appreciate it

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