NBA Fantasy Basketball Week 14 Schedule + Streaming Plan
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Week 14 is the kind of schedule fantasy managers hope for: every day is playable, there are no overloaded nights, and game volume becomes a weapon for anyone willing to stream aggressively. This is a week where you can turn one low-game roster spot into a real difference-maker if you map out your moves in advance.
First, zoom out and look at the week as a whole. The daily game counts are:
Monday: 9 games
Tuesday: 7 games
Wednesday: 7 games
Thursday: 8 games
Friday: 8 games
Saturday: 7 games
Sunday: 7 games
That’s what makes this week so friendly for streaming. There are no brutal 12–13 game nights where good players are stuck on your bench, and no two-game slates where you’re scrambling just to get anyone active. Every day is effectively a “quality game day,” which means:
You’re very likely to have open starting spots on most nights.
Almost every stream you make has a clear path into your active lineup.
Streaming is limited by your moves and your planning, not by the schedule blocking you.
Team Game Counts (5, 4, 3, 2)
Now to the core of the week: how many games each team plays.
One team plays 5 games.
Sixteen teams play 4 games.
Eleven teams play 3 games.
Two teams play 2 games.
Those distributions alone create tiered value, before you even think about talent. More games equals more chances to accumulate points, rebounds, assists, and everything else that wins categories or head-to-head matchups.
Five-game team
There is only one 5-game team this week:
Miami – 5 games
In a week like this, that team becomes the centerpiece of any aggressive streaming plan. A back-end player from a 5-game team can easily beat a stronger real-life player who only plays 2 or 3 times.
Four-game teams
These teams each play 4 games in Week 14:
Boston
Brooklyn
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Golden State
The Clippers
Milwaukee
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Sacramento
San Antonio
Toronto
Utah
Four-game teams form your “safe volume” tier. In weekly formats, these are the teams you want to lean on for your core starters. In daily formats, these squads still matter because they show up over and over again when you look at back-to-backs and light slates.
Three-game teams
These teams have 3 games:
Atlanta
Charlotte
Chicago
Houston
Indiana
The Lakers
Memphis
Minnesota
New Orleans
New York
Washington
Three-game teams are neutral. You don’t need to auto-drop players from these teams, but they become your primary candidates when you need to unlock a streaming spot at the back of your roster, especially if that player’s role is shaky.
Two-game teams
There are only two teams with 2 games this week:
Orlando – 2 games
Portland – 2 games
These teams are where you find your biggest streaming leverage. A fringe player from a two-game team is often better off as a streamable slot than a hold, because you can realistically turn that spot into five, six, or even seven games over the course of the week.
Strategy For Daily-Change Leagues
In daily leagues, the schedule is so flat that your focus should be entirely on total games from your last one or two roster spots. With four moves and one streaming slot, you can turn a 2-game player into 7 games. With more moves and two streaming slots, you can push that even further.
Step 1: Identify who to cut
Start by looking at your roster through a game-volume lens:
Back-end players from Orlando and Portland are top drop candidates. They only play twice and those games come later in the week, which delays any payoff if you hold them.
Marginal players from 3-game teams can also be sacrificed if they’re not difference-makers in your build.
The question isn’t “Is this player good?” The question is “Is this player good enough to justify giving up 3–5 extra games from that roster spot?”
Step 2: Build a 4-move, 1-slot plan
Use one roster spot as your “stream engine” and map out the entire week before it starts. A strong four-move blueprint can look like this:
Early Week – Monday–Tuesday back-to-back
Target a team that plays both Monday and Tuesday. There are several options here, including Golden State, the Clippers, Miami, Philadelphia, San Antonio, and Utah.Add a player from one of these teams before Monday’s games.
You get two games from this spot by the end of Tuesday.
Midweek – Wednesday single-game stream
After Tuesday’s games, drop that streamer and grab anyone playing on Wednesday. Because it’s a balanced slate, you’re very likely to have a lineup opening.That’s game number three from the same roster spot.
Late Week – Thursday–Friday back-to-back
After Wednesday’s game, pivot to a team with a Thursday–Friday back-to-back. For this week, that cluster includes Denver, Houston, and Portland.Add a streamer from one of those teams.
That gives you two more games on Thursday and Friday, taking the total to five from that one roster spot.
Optional Weekend Add – Saturday or Saturday–Sunday
If your league allows enough moves and you’ve planned carefully, you can finish off with a weekend move. Dallas and Miami have a back-to-back on Saturday–Sunday, which is perfect if you still have one last transaction.That can push the total to 7 games from a spot that would’ve given you only 2 if you held a player from Orlando or Portland.
This type of plan is what turns “I’m down a couple categories” into “I just added five extra box scores on my opponent.”
Step 3: Multiple streaming spots
If your platform allows 6–7 moves per week and your league is competitive, it makes sense to open up a second streaming slot.
With two streaming spots and seven moves, you can’t quite get 14 games, but you can reach up to 13.
That might look like dropping two low-volume players (for example, from Orlando and Portland) and cycling those two roster spots through back-to-backs and single nights across the week.
The goal is to make sure those two spots are almost always active. When your opponent is getting 4–6 games from their bottom two players, you’re getting 10–13. That’s the kind of swing that decides tight matchups.
Bringing It All Together
Week 14 gives you everything you want as a streaming manager: balanced nights, a clear five-game team to target, a large pool of four-game teams, and only two teams dragging behind at two games. The managers who win this week will:
Cut emotion from the equation and move on from low-volume teams like Orlando and Portland at the back of their roster.
Script their moves around back-to-backs, especially Monday–Tuesday and Thursday–Friday, and look for weekend opportunities with teams like Dallas and Miami.
In weekly formats, build their lineups around the 5- and 4-game teams first, then fill gaps with the best remaining options from 3-game squads.
Treat your last roster spots as levers, not keepsakes. If you squeeze every game you can out of them in Week 14, the schedule is set up to reward you.
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Robbin Marx
NBA Fantasy Analyst
Experience: NBC Sports - Rotoworld, HashTag Basketball, Bleav Network