Daily Fantasy Basketball Injury News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings – 3/8/16

Daily Fantasy Basketball Injury News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 3/8/16 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 Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and Tim Duncan are taking a game off The big fantasy here, of course, is not that these guys aren't playing - it's who will get their minutes. Patty Mills is probably the biggest winner of the group - he's been playing low 20s minutes as is, and while Pop has kept him a part of the 2nd unit in games where Parker has sat in the past, Mills has still seen both a usage and minutes increase. I also suspect we'll see 30+ minutes of Danny Green, and high 20s minutes for David West, both of whom have been solid daily fantasy basketball options when their respective starters have sat in the recent past. Kristaps Porzingis will play But there's almost no chance he sees his full run. Unfortunately, Porzingis' minutes have been spread rather evenly among fantasy irrelevant options like Kyle O'Quinn and Lance Thomas, leaving guys with a chance to be relevant like Derrick Williams still under-funded in the opportunity department. Bradley Beal is out He's not even with the team at the moment, so we can try and figure out who is going to get his minutes. The team hasn't released anything publicly as of this writing, but I'd guess we'll see a healthy dose of the daily fantasy irrelevant Garrett Temple (whom I guess can still be called an interesting punt play on minimum prices if he starts), and likely some more Alan...