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Is he expected to play tonight?

Fantasy Reasons =/

probably not.

I dislike fantasy basketball season.

He could probably return in about a week, which would be the front end of new 4-6 week schedule that's been released, but the Jazz are not a big hurry to release their newly extended superstar this early in the season with such an easy schedule. We only have about 2 or 3 real challenges in November, but we don't have to play the Celtics, Pistons, Lakers, Hornets or the Rockets. Basically, we are going to play against 2nd tier teams at best, and the Spurs will not have Manu, and who knows we might catch a break if Phoenix has an injury, not that I'm hoping anybody else in the league gets hurt, but it's reality.