NBA Fantasy Basketball Week 10 Streaming Plan
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Christmas Schedule And Streaming Plan
Week 10 is Christmas week. The NBA schedule is a little weird in the middle, but this is the last “zero game day” week for a hot minute. Once you get through this one, things settle into a more normal rhythm.
Week 10 Schedule Overview
This week runs from December 22 through December 28.
Here is a Day by Day breakdown:
Monday: 7 games
Tuesday: 14 games
Wednesday: 0 games (Christmas Eve)
Thursday (Christmas Day): 5 games
Friday: 9 games
Saturday: 9 games
Sunday: 6 games
So you get a massive, overloaded Tuesday, then a ghost town on Wednesday, and a very clean spread from Thursday through Sunday.
Because there are only six game days, ESPN will usually reduce default weekly adds from seven to six for this scoring period.
Games Per Team
Game totals for the week:
11 teams play 4 games
18 teams play 3 games
1 lonely team plays 2 games: the Brooklyn Nets
The four game group:
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Indiana
Memphis
New Orleans
Oklahoma City
Orlando
Portland
Utah
The other 18 teams have three games. Brooklyn is on a lonely island with only two.
Quality Game Days
For streaming, only the low and mid-volume days matter. Here are your quality days:
Monday: quality
Tuesday: not a streaming day (14 games)
Wednesday: no games
Thursday (Christmas): quality (5 games)
Friday: quality (9 games)
Saturday: quality (9 games)
Sunday: quality (6 games)
So the streaming pattern is simple:
Ignore Tuesday and Wednesday for streaming.
Attack Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday after setting yourself up on Monday.
Boston, Golden State, And The Schedule Edge
Not every three or four game schedule is created equal.
Every four-game team this week has exactly three quality games. One of their games lands on that 14-game Tuesday.
Boston and Golden State only play three games, but all three are on quality days. They do not play Tuesday.
That means for streaming purposes, Celtics and Warriors fringe guys function like four-game players. You get three quality games from them, same as you do from the four-game teams, without dealing with a dead game on Tuesday.
This matters more for the streamers than the stars. You are starting Jaylen Brown, Stephen Curry, and Derrick White regardless. The real edge comes from secondary pieces:
Boston depth guys like Jordan Walsh.
Golden State streamers like Quinten Post.
They all jump up the list because you can use every single one of their games.
Brooklyn, on the other hand, has two games and only one of them is a quality day. That is brutal. It kills most of their streaming appeal this week.
Streaming Blueprint: Turn 1–2 Quality Games Into 5
You can use one roster spot and three moves to turn a one-quality-game or two-quality-game schedule into five quality games.
There are 16 teams that have only two quality days. There is also Brooklyn with its single quality day. For that class of player, the goal is to quintuple what you get from that slot.
In a standard Yahoo setup with four moves:
Ignore Tuesday and Wednesday
Treat those days like they do not exist for streaming. You are not going to win Tuesday with adds in a 14-game slate.
The calendar for you is Monday, then Thursday through Sunday.
Step 1: Christmas combo (Monday plus Christmas Day)
Look at the teams that:
Play on Monday, and
Also play on Christmas Day (Thursday).
That list is:
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Golden State
Oklahoma City
You add a streamer from one of those teams before Monday. You get:
Game 1: Monday
Game 2: Thursday (Christmas Day)
Two games from a single move. You do not worry about streaming Tuesday. You ignore the zero on Wednesday.
Step 2: Friday–Saturday back-to-back
After Christmas Day, drop that first streamer and pick up someone who plays Friday and Saturday. There are a ton of options:
Atlanta
Chicago
Indiana
Miami
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Orlando
Phoenix
Utah
That second move gives you:
Game 3: Friday
Game 4: Saturday
Step 3: Sunday single stream
For your third move, on Sunday, add a player who plays that day and can fit your lineup.
Game 5: Sunday
Now you have:
Turned one or two quality games into five quality games.
Used three moves.
Saved a fourth move for emergencies (injuries or late news)
In ESPN with six moves, you can run that exact pattern in two streaming slots to turn three or four quality games into 10. Two slots, six moves, five games per slot.
Streaming a third slot is usually not worth it in standard leagues with four acquisitions this week. You cap each stream slot at five games and want at least one move held back for flexibility.
Back-to-Back Watch
Back-to-backs matter in two ways: for streaming and for rest risk.
There are:
No Sunday–Monday back-to-backs rolling into the week.
The first back-to-backs hit Monday–Tuesday, then a gap until Friday–Saturday, then one set on Saturday–Sunday.
Monday–Tuesday back-to-backs (leading into the 14-game Tuesday)
Rest risks here:
LaMelo Ball (Charlotte)
Darius Garland and Lonzo Ball (Cleveland)
Ja Morant (Memphis)
Utah’s duo: Lauri Markkanen and Jusuf Nurkic
Any of these could drop one leg of the Monday–Tuesday set.
Friday–Saturday back-to-backs
This is the same cluster you are streaming from:
Big names to monitor: Devin Booker, Tyler Herro, Trae Young, plus the Utah group again.
Saturday–Sunday back-to-back
Only one team has a weekend back-to-back here: Sacramento.
The only mild rest flag might be Zach LaVine.
Otherwise the Kings do not have clear chronic rest candidates for that set.
Use this week’s quirks to your advantage. Ignore Tuesday and Wednesday for streaming. Target the Monday–Thursday combo, hammer the Friday–Saturday back-to-back, finish with a Sunday single stream, and turn your weakest roster spot into five quality games. That is how you survive the Christmas chaos without giving up ground. Good luck!
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Robbin Marx
NBA Fantasy Analyst
Experience: NBC Sports - Rotoworld, HashTag Basketball, Bleav Network