Daily Fantasy Basketball Injury News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 3/5/16

Welcome to the daily updates and injury news article. We'll try and update it right up to line-up locks with as much information as comes across our desks. Let's get to it!

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Now let’s look at some news that’s come in throughout the day to see if anything’s changed in our minds or in the NBA landscape. It's a shorter slate and a light news day, but we'll be updating as stuff rolls in. Also throw out some ideas in the comments and we can take it from there.

What We Know

It was only a rest day for Kevin Love
He got the night off on Friday for some rest though it didn't effect the Cavs in any way as they trounced the Wizards. Love should be back tonight against the Celtics and I love him baseline projection. He's showing up just about everywhere for us and should be for you as well. This is just the right kind of matchup for his skillset. And though I think Brad Stevens will design some ways to attack him defensively, the Cavs can match it on the other end with his offense.

What We're Waiting to Know

Will Jimmy Buckets Return?
It's been a long injury hiatus for the dude and that's given me many of the sads. I love watching this guy play so I'm feeling many of the glads with the thought he might come back. He's trending toward probable at the time of this post so I'd suspect he's a go. That doesn't mean we play the guy though. Even with a moniker like Jimmy Minutes you'd be hard pressed to play a guy coming back after such a long injury absence. Let's ease him back into things and go from there.

Will Solomon Hill start for Myles Turner again?
Hill was somewhat of a surprise play last night and played 30 minutes kind of out of nowhere. Hill was fine enough considering the price though didn't crush it. The thing that makes it interesting is coming at the minimums on both sites and projecting for high 20's minutes definitely puts him in the discussion, especially on DraftKings.

Will Taj Gibson play?
Taj sat out last game and gave way to the Bulls starting Cameron Bairstow (a non factor) and more minutes for Bobby Portis. The latter is intriguing if you thought he'd see run in the higher twenties with Taj on the bench. The Bulls are a little bit of all over the place right and it's tough to really trust any of their situation. Update: Well that didn't take long. Gibson will play tonight.

The "Every Lineup" Guys

LeBron James - FD 9800 DK 9800
Opponent - BOS
FD Proj. Pts - 48.16 DK Proj. Pts - 50.18
Kevin Love - FD 7000 DK 7000
Opponent - BOS
FD Proj. Pts - 36.75 DK Proj. Pts - 39.45
These guys are showing up just about everywhere in lineups and it makes sense. The Cavs have one of the highest expected totals on the day. Boston's allowed well above average production to both the power forward and small forwards this season and these guys have somewhat depressed prices thanks to Cleveland getting involved in blowouts of late. I'd be shocked if these guys weren't in all of my lineups today at least on FanDuel.

Shelvin Mack - FD 3500 DK 4100
Opponent - NOP
FD Proj. Pts - 20.78 DK Proj. Pts - 22.35
Ugh, believe me I feel the same way as you. Mack is the opposite of a safe play. Even when he gets minutes the production can leave you severely wanting. Which is a nice way to put it. Our system draws on mean performance based on projected minutes. Per minute averages have Mack as a beast. But those performances are wildly skewed. I can understand why one would be hesitant though last night he did roll a 12/5/8 at the minimums.

These are guys that seem to show up in all of the top lineups in our lineup optimizer. Enjoy!

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