Nick Whalen (@wha1en) and Alex Barutha (@aruthaAlex) each present the other with three "who would you rather draft in fantasy basketball?" questions, pitting players vs. players. The guys discuss Trae Young, Jalen Brunson, Cooper Flagg, Tyrese Maxey, Brandon Miller, Desmond Bane, LaMelo Ball, Austin Reaves, Caleb Wilson, AJ Dybantsa, Kon Knueppel and Keyonte George.

00:00 Intro

00:15 Trae Young vs. Jalen Brunson

01:38 Cooper Flagg vs. Tyrese Maxey

04:20 Brandon Miller vs. Desmond Bane

06:20 LaMelo Ball vs. Austin Reaves

08:35 Caleb Wilson vs. AJ Dybantsa

10:30 Kon Knueppel vs. Keyonte George

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Nick Whalen (@wha1en) and Alex Barutha (@baruthaalex) each hand out three of their favorite breakout candidates for the 2026-27 NBA season.

The guys talk Payton Pritchard, Cedric Coward, Ty Jerome, Dylan Harper, Coby White and Day'Ron Sharpe.

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Kirien Sprecher and Adam King discuss news and notes from around the NBA before answering questions, including what to do with Josh Giddey.

00:00 Intro

01:00 Previewing Final Days of NBA Regular season

10:40 Sling TV Ad

12:00 Viewer Questions

19:00 2026-27 First-Round: Tier 1

21:20 2026-27 First-Round: Tier 2

23:30 2026-27 First-Round: Tier 3

28:00 2026-27 First-Round: Tier 4

30:00 2026-27 First-Round: Honorable Mention

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Kirien Sprecher and Mike Barner discuss news and notes from around the NBA before handing out their season-long awards, including Kon Knueppel for Rookie of the Year.

00:00 Intro

01:40 Bulls Minute

06:45 Wemby/Castle

08:15 Cade Cunningham

09:25 Sling TV Ad

10:45 MVP

12:30 DPOY

17:20 ROY

20:00 Biggest Surprise

22:35 Biggest Disappointment

25:15 Fan Shoutouts

32:00 ‘What Was That?!?’

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Nick Whalen and Alex Barutha wrap up the fantasy basketball season with the final Monday episode of the year. The guys answer live mailbag questions and talk late-season streaming options, schedule management and start to look ahead at some difficult players to rank for 2026-27. The guys also address the elephant in the room: how high will Cooper Flagg be drafted next season?

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Kirien and Alex discuss their favorite fantasy basketball waiver wire pickups for the final week of the NBA regular season.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:30 Luka hamstring

03:40 SGA or Wemby for MVP

08:15 Ant ineligible for awards

09:30 Cade out another week

12:25 Listener Q&A

12:40 Huff or Lopez

14:40 Tips for final week

15:20 Shead, Brown, Konchar

16:46 Next season where to draft injured guys

19:14 Queen or Turner?

19:56 Fan leagues?

20:48 Best schedules next week

22:06 Clingan panic?

23:40 Keeper question

26:35 Waiver Wire begins

27:20 Ousmane Dieng, Bucks

29:50 Collin Sexton, Bulls

32:07 Kennedy Chandler, Jazz

33:30 Jamal Shead, Raptors

35:10 Sandro Mamukelashvili, Raptors

36:06 Max Strus, Cavaliers

38:05 John Konchar, Jazz

38:50 Bones Hyland, Timberwolves

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Kirien Sprecher and Adam King discuss news and notes from around the NBA before answering viewer questions, including what to do with Stephen Curry.

00:00 Intro

00:50 Stephen Curry

02:45 Weekend Steamers

07:45 Washington Streamers

10:30 Franz Wagner

11:45 Gui Santos

12:55 Fears/Ausar/Duncan/Grimes

15:55 Thursday/Saturday Steamer

18:00 Sling TV Ad

19:30 Bam/Jamal Murray vs. Ayo

21:15 Pelle Larsson

23:45 Cam Johnson

24:40 Embiid/Dejounte/Siakam/Giddey

26:50 Sam Merrill or Paul Reed

28:45 Larsson/Filipowski/Eason/Riley

33:25 Keldon/Barnes/Melton

34:20 Fears/Gordon

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Kirien Sprecher and Mike Barner discuss news and notes from around the NBA before discussing players who've risen up and fallen down fantasy basketball dynasty rankings during the 2025-26 season, including Keyonte George.

00:00 Intro

01:45 Luka Doncic

03:35 Immanuel Quickley

05:45 Stephen Curry

07:50 Franz Wagner

09:35 Sling TV Ad

10:30 Keyonte George

13:20 Kawhi Leonard

15:30 Maxime Raynaud

17:00 Ajay Mitchell

18:10 Myles Turner

19:50 Ja Morant

21:25 Viewer Questions

34:10 ‘What Was That?!?’

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