Ho, ho, ho. I hope everybody had a Merry Christmas and your holidays are going swell.

Welcome to the Fantasy NBA Today podcast, a sports ethos presentation hosted by yours truly,

Aaron Bruske and FSWA Hall of Famer Steve, Dr. A. Alexander.

We got a huge 30 team review going on today.

We got huge news.

As we mentioned before the show, it's like cruel because it's Doc's birthday today.

And Luca Donchich is going to be evaluated in a month due to a calf injury.

That's just brutal to say those two things together in the same sentence.

Goga is going off. We're going to talk some trade buzz teams in Miami, Denver, and Phoenix, maybe even Sacramento after last night's disaster. Holy moly. And then how to handle some tanking teams. It feels like that's percolating. We'll talk to you guys about the new

sports ethos app here and there. But Doc, it's your birthday. Happy birthday, man. Would you

like me to sing? I can say, do you? No, we talked about that last night. No singing. Oh,

Andre said no. I have PTSD.

Really?

Like when I was five or six.

My parents totally lied to me and took me to this ice cream parlor.

And we're parked out in the parking lot at Castleton Square Mall.

It's called Farrells.

And I saw where we were.

And I was like, I'm not going in there, dude. They got a big bass drum. There's marching. There's singing. There's horns. There's hats. There's lots of stuff

involved. And they're going to sing to you. We're not going to let them sing. And so they drug me in

their crying, you know, and then I get in there

and like my whole extended family's there. There's like 30 people or whatever. Sure enough,

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