FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Friday, 10/22/21 It’s another jam-packed Friday slate of NBA action and there is plenty to like in terms of value on DraftKings and FanDuel.   Head on over for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, NFL optimal lineups, and our NHL Optimizer. 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 LaMelo Ball FD - $8200 DK - $7700Opponent - CLEProj Pts FD - 42.26 DK - 42.95 With Terry Rozier out of the lineup, LaMelo became a very popular DFS play on Wednesday and man did the second-year guard ever pay off. In just 29 minutes, Ball went for 31 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. He took a staggering 23 shots in that run with he and Gordon Hayward dominating the usage for the Hornets. I’m a little concerned with him not cresting over 30 minutes in a close game, but everything else about Ball lines up perfectly from a fantasy standpoint. Malcolm Brogdon FD - $7700 DK - $7500Opponent - WASProj Pts FD - 44.06 DK - 46.23 We had Brogdon as a core play going into the first game of the season and though he got off to a slow start, it more than worked out. Against the Hornets on Wednesday, Brogdon finished with 28 points and 11 assists and that was even with less than efficient shooting from the field. With Chris Duarte starting for the Pacers, they do have some more scoring in the starting five, but the minutes on the Pacers’ starters were high even under Rick Carlisle and they should remain that way. Brogdon was a low-owned option on Wednesday and could be that way again on Friday. But he is a good play. Shooting Guard Tyrese Maxey FD - $5800 DK - $5300Opponent - BKNProj Pts FD - 31.57 DK - 32.45 Maxey got the start for the suspended/ holding out/ confusing Ben Simmons in the 76ers’ first game of the season and it was an overwhelming success. The young guard finished with 20 points, seven rebounds, and five assists in a complete performance. He was overwhelming chalk on that first slate, though the price has come up. I think he’s still a value against a Nets’ team that looked rough on the defensive end in the first game. Simmons is doubtful here and Embiid is questionable. There should be plenty...

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 NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 5/17/16 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. This is the same information that James wrote up yesterday as it still applies since Game 1 is tonight Toronto Raptors at the Cleveland Cavaliers Analysis Could these two teams be coming into this game with more different post-season experiences thus far? The Raptors have played fully 6 more games than the Cavaliers over the same stretch of time, and are missing their starting center. They've been in back to back rock fights, reserving really any good play until game 7 of the Heat series, when their guards finally went off. So am I crazy for saying I don't hate Toronto's chances to at least keep it close in these games? The Cavs are relatively weak when it comes to back-court defense, and the Raptors went out and got Demarre Carroll specifically for match-ups like LeBron. The Raptors shouldn't need to rely on Valanciunas' low post scoring here, and Biyombo is actually a welcome defensive presence down low for them here. Top Plays LeBron James - FD 9800 DK 10800 Opponent - TOR FD Proj. Pts - 53.41 DK Proj. Pts - 55.54 LeBron nearly averaged a triple double in the last two games of the Hawks series, and while the Raptors play quite a bit more slowly than the Hawks, the Hawks make up for some of their fast play by having the 2nd highest defensive efficiency in the league. When healthy, Carroll is a tougher defender than anyone who guarded LeBron on the Hawks, but he isn't. I don't know that LeBron has huge upside here, but he seems awfully safe. Kyrie Irving - FD 7100 DK 8200 Opponent - TOR FD Proj. Pts - 38.54 DK Proj. Pts - 40.66 Kevin Love - FD 7500 DK 8400 Opponent - TOR FD Proj. Pts - 36.35 DK Proj. Pts - 38.79 The other two Cleveland stars are simply underpriced, here. The Raptors were the toughest match-up in the league for opposing point guards this season, but...

Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 5/10/16 Playoffs Now’s your chance to get DFSR Pro with NBA Optimal Lineups, Projections, Player Cards and Google Chrome extension that auto-populates your lineups into FanDuel. 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 (and MLB when the time comes)! 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.   Oklahoma City Thunder at San Antonio Spurs Analysis Ok, the Thunder can't actually win this series, right? Or can they? I like many thought it more of a formality than a prediction that the Spurs would win this series, but that was before Oklahoma City seemed to find the recipe for hanging with San Antonio. Now I don't think you can bank on KD outscoring the entire Spurs team in the 4th, or Westbrook notching more assists than the entire Spurs team combined (something I'm sure Popovich was just giddy about), but the momentum in this series has definitely shifted in the Thunder's favor. I do expect San Antonio to play better tonight at home, but this game could really go either way. Top Plays Russell Westbrook - FD 11100 DK 11100 Opponent - SAS FD Proj. Pts - 54.71 DK Proj. Pts - 56.59 Kevin Durant - FD 10100 DK 9500 Opponent - SAS FD Proj. Pts - 43.92 DK Proj. Pts - 46.54 Steven Adams - FD 5200 DK 6100 Opponent - SAS FD Proj. Pts - 26.68 DK Proj. Pts - 27.16 For the Thunder we have the usual suspects, plus the surprise appearance of one Steven Adams, who has really been a nice surprise for fantasy owners willing to roster him in this series. Adams has seen 36+ minutes in each of his last 3 games, and it seems that he has pushed far ahead of Kanter and Ibaka in Billy Donovan's rotation. Not to mention the fact that Tim Duncan decided to retire early and not tell anyone, Adams is now frequently covered by either West or Diaw, both of whom he has a sizable height advantage over. I won't spend much time on Russ and KD because unless you're completely new to this whole NBA thing you know what these guys are capable of. Although he's more...

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....