FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Sunday, 10/31/21 This slate is downright ugly. There are five games in total and only four making up the DFS card. It happens to be a bunch of struggling teams, too, making the selections particularly tough. The good news is that we have plenty of superstars to pick from and numerous value plays to mix them with. Head on over for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our MLB Optimizer, and NHL Projections as well. Plus, our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or NFL? Be sure to read our free NBA and NFL Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy, and more. We've got you completely covered. Point Guard Damian Lillard FD - $8400 DK - $9400 Opponent - CHA Proj Pts FD - 49.44 DK - 51.44 Dame has been struggling with his shot all year, but this $8,400 price tag on FanDuel is laughable. This dude is usually north of $10K, and it's just a matter of time before he gets there. Despite his shooting slump, Lillard still has 32 DraftKings points in four of five games en route to a 36-point average. We expect that average to jump closer to 45-50 fantasy points as the season progresses, and that means some positive regression is headed his way as well. Dame has killed Charlotte over recent years, scoring at least 45 DK points in each of their last two meetings dating back to 2019. Cade Cunningham FD - $5000 DK - $3600 Opponent - BKN Proj Pts FD - 21.92 DK - 22.33 Um, $3,600 on DraftKings? This looks like a mistake made by DK, clearly failing to realize that Cunningham is back and starting. He really struggled with his shot in his debut, but this is a guy who's expected to stuff the stat sheet at ease. Our projections have him sitting around 21-22 DK points, but I truly believe a 25/30-point average is more realistic. This guy is expected to run this offense and handle the ball as much as possible, making this price tag truly shocking. He did play just 18 minutes in his debut on Saturday and will likely be capped at 20-25 here, but as long as he provides the fantasy-point-per-minute that we anticipate, he'll give us the fantasy production we need. If you have the salary, Luka Doncic is obviously a great play against a bad Kings defense. Shooting Guard James Harden FD - $9900 DK - $9900 Opponent - DET Proj Pts FD - 50.24...

Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 5/24/16 Playoffs Now’s your chance to get DFSR Pro with MLB Optimal Lineups, Projections and Player Cards. Or try a free trial of our base package with projections for every player. While the seasons overlap, you'll get access to our tools for the NBA and NHL as well! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA? Be sure to read our free NBA Ebook on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. We've also launched a Stats and Research Page, which includes a lot of the individual statistics that we use to make our projections. It's free! Enjoy. Here's what James wrote about this matchup the other day, and given that Draymond Green wasn't suspended, it still holds true. Golden State Warriors at Oklahoma City Thunder Analysis The hay-makers in this series, my god. Westbrook and Durant responded to a game 2 drubbing by pitching simultaneous perfect games. 20-34 from the field, and 21-23 from the line. I'm still speechless. Is it possible that the Thunder had the highest ceiling of any team all along, because they have two guys that can put up games like this, and not just one? Now, as you can probably guess by now, this actually doesn't change our projections a whole heck of a lot. Minutes go haywire in blowouts, and the guys we figured would be good on a per-minute basis pretty much were. As for the worry about future blowouts, I suspect things will regulate somewhat and we'll get a high-speed thriller instead of a lopsided blowout. I don't blame you if you just want to grab as many pieces from this game as you can, since they're still pretty reasonably priced. Top Plays Stephen Curry - FD 9900 DK 10700 Opponent - OKC FD Proj. Pts - 52.41 DK Proj. Pts - 56.83 Curry's final line looked generally crappy in game 3, but on a per-minute basis it wasn't a whole lot worse than what he'd been doing earlier in the series. If you think he's going to go 2 days listening to hot takes about how he might be the third best player in this series! then you're sorely mistaken. He's still very reasonably priced and should be a favorite to put up 5x+ points per dollar in this game. Klay Thompson - FD 7400 DK 7900 Opponent - OKC FD Proj. Pts - 37.31 DK Proj. Pts - 41.42 The minutes are headed in the wrong direction here, but I think we saw what Golden State wants to do with Klay in game 1. 40+...

Daily Fantasy Basketball Injury News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 3/4/16 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! Special Note: Our new optimizer is available! Click the button below to check it out and see if it's right for you. SEE OUR NEW TOOLS 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. 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 Kevin Love out - big boosts to Kyrie Irving, LeBron, and Tristan Thompson Kyrie gets the lead picture here because he's the primary beneficiary of Love's absence. With Love off the court, his usage jumps from 30% to 36%, a 20% relative increase, as opposed to just a 12.5% increase for LeBron. Thompson played 32 minutes the last time Love sat, but did not score a point (though he did snare 15 rebounds). It'll also be interesting to see how Love's minutes get distributed across the rest of the team. Anderson Varejao played 27 minutes when Love sat on 2/6, and he's not on the team anymore. I'm guessing most of those will go to Channing Frye, who won't make much of a difference.   What We're Waiting to Know Will Evan Fournier definitely play? He's listed as probable after missing the last three games. This would kill Mario Hezonja's value, and ding Oladipo as well. As for Fournier, I won't play him until I see him log his full run of minutes, though a wrist injury isn't usually the type of thing to cause much change in minutes. The big thing we'll look out for here is how it affects his shooting. We've seen guys fall off a cliff while recovering from injuries like this in the past (think Nic Batum last year). Jahlil Okafor - will his shin bruise keep him out again? It seems like an odd amount of...