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Yahoo Sports is giving fans yet another way to play fantasy basketball this season with the launch of Perfect 5, a free-to-play game connected to each week’s marquee NBA on Prime matchups. Designed to complement season-long fantasy basketball, the new format features weekly roster building and scoring. Specifically:
Fans pick five players from the games featured in each week’s NBA on Prime doubleheader.
Each player has a salary between $1 to $5. Fans have a $15 budget to build their five-player roster.
Players earn fantasy points in categories like points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, and 3-pointers made.
The objective: build a roster that outscores the competition.
Friday’s Perfect 5 board is two games: Knicks at Celtics at 4:00 PM ET and Rockets at Spurs at 6:30 PM ET. Here’s who I picked with my $15 and why.
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Victor Wembanyama – C, San Antonio Spurs – ($5, 69% picked)
Wemby shot 1-of-13 in San Antonio’s loss to OKC, the worst shooting night of his career. Still, he finished with 12 points, 13 rebounds and 6 blocks. He gets Houston at home, and while it’s one of the league’s most physically imposing teams, Wemby has a steady track record against the Rockets. In 11 regular-season contests against them, Wemby is averaging 19 points, 11.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 4.3 stocks per game. He’s the highest rostered player, but he also has the highest projection on the board at 51.17 fantasy points. I’m buying the bounce back.
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Jayson Tatum – PF, Boston Celtics – ($5, 11% picked)
Tatum went 6-of-23 from the field in Boston’s loss at Detroit on Opening Night, but even though the shot wasn’t falling, Tatum still dished out 11 assists. Now he faces the Knicks, a team he’s averaged 24-7-4 against with more than a steal a game in his career. Despite the underwhelming debut, Tatum rarely has back-to-back sub-30% FG shooting performances in regular-season games. He’ll come out aggressive and hopefully get to the rim more to balance out the contested-shot-taking cycle he often falls into. He projects at 42.23 fantasy points, and I like that…
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Author : Dan Titus
Publish date : 2026-10-23 13:29:00
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