Daily Fantasy Basketball Injury News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 2/19/16 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! Last night's picks can be found here, so you can wrap your mind around what you need to be looking at before lineups lock tonight. By the way - we keep our projection system updated with all of the changes as they occur throughout the day right up until lineup lock. Every day. If you want access to that system so you can cut out a lot of the research element, click the button below! START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! 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. What We Know Kawhi Leonard is out He was a late scratch (thanks for nothing, Pop) last night, and Kyle Anderson got a good amount of run. Still, the minutes in that game were all over the place for everyone. Anderson is more of an interesting tourney play than a double-up guy for me, just because he's simply not very good. This news is also significant for LaMarcus Aldridge, who gets a 10%+ usage bump when Kawhi's not on the floor. His usage also soars to 33%+ when both Duncan and Leonard are off the floor, which will inevitably happen in this one. Amar'e Stoudemire, Luol Deng, and Justise Winslow should see increased roles With Whiteside AND Bosh out, it's sort of unclear how the Heat are going to handle things. My gut tells me they are going to play Deng and Winslow more, and that they play Stoudemire as much or more than they have all season. The Hawks are basically a league average match-up for each of these guys, and each has plenty of value at current prices. EDIT: Casey, a member of our DFSR community, points out that the ATL bigs could eat the piecemeal Miami bigs for lunch. I tend to agree - Stoudemire isn't a true 5, and Horford certainly is. Millsap will be a very tough match-up for Deng as well. It should be a slow paced game, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see a big game out of either of those guys. Tobias Harris is coming off the bench Basically just means that whole collection of guys (Tolliver, Harris, probably Stanley Johnson) are a stay-away until we see how this plays out in at least 1 close game.   What We’re Waiting to Know Marco Belinelli and Omri Casspi's mouths...

Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings and Draftster 1/2/15 The NBA is here. And we are here every single day, to providing you with all the NBA picks you need to make literally a million dollars at Daily Fantasy Basketball. Enjoy! Ready to make the leap and get access to the exclusive projection system that produces these picks? Sign up now and get a free 3 day trial to our lineup construction tool for FanDuel and DraftKings. And now - for the next month - you can get access to our Football projection tools AND our basketball projection tools for the same price! Sick deal.   Point Guard Mike Conley - FD 7500 DK 8400 On such a huge slate in the NBA, how is the discerning daily fantasy basketball expert to know where to begin? Well, the PG playing against the Lakers is always a great place to start. Conley's minutes are extremely consistent, and he has a way of chewing up teams with bad PG defense. He's pretty reliably around paying value on this price, and has some monster upside games in there as well (3 39.6+ performances in December). Conley is easily the cash game play of the day, for me. Kyrie Irving - FD 8800 DK 9300 DFSTR 7000 With Lebron out for a couple of weeks, Irving will rocket to the head of the class in terms of safe point guards. It's only a shame that the sites adjusted so quickly to his price. Instead of being the steal of the century, he's merely a great play - and I expect his price will rise another 5-10% in relatively short order. The Hornets have given up slightly more fantasy points than league average to opposing PGs, and I expect that to continue here. Trey Burke - FD 5500 DK 5600 DFSTR 5300 I kind of hope normal DFSR basketball writer Doug Norrie isn't reading these picks. But he will, because he's worried I'll make a mistake. What's up, Doug? Don't worry - it only took me 3 picks to make one. Well, here's my case for Burke. The minutes are back with a vengeance, and it doesn't look like anything he's done with those minutes is entirely unsustainable. With Burks gone, those shots have to go somewhere, and Burke could very well be one of the primary beneficiaries. Also considered: Russell Westbrook, Matthew Dellavadova   Shooting Guard Tyreke Evans - FD 7300 DK 7800 DFSTR Shooting guard is one of the thinner daily fantasy basketball positions on any given night from a value perspective. So, more often than not, I find myself wanting to get away from it cheaply and relatively unscathed....