Squirrel’s Nuts & Bolts NBA - January 5th, 2026

Monday night brings eight games on the NBA schedule, with all eight games on the slate on FanDuel but only the first six games on DraftKings. The injury news will again make an impact, with Jalen Duren, Trae Young, Alperen Sengun, Isaiah Hartenstein, Jamal Murray, and Aaron Gordon among the major players who are out, while Steven Adams and James Harden are listed as Questionable (with Harden only on the FanDuel slate).

This is becoming a standard caveat for this article, but with so many injury situations, it will be absolutely critical to pay attention to the injury news and starting lineups. Even minor injuries can disrupt the slate when a minimum-priced player gets surprisingly elevated into the starting lineup, so with late swap, it’s essential to monitor the starting lineups on a slate this large with so many injury situations.

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