FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Thursday, 12/5/19   Head on over a for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our NFL 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 Lonzo Ball FD - $5800 DK - $5300 Opponent - PHO Proj Pts FD - 31.75 DK - 32.84 After a long stretch of injuries it seems as though Ball is finally back playing his 32 minute rotations, which means he should just be too cheap here. During the 5 game stretch that he played 31-35 minute rotations earlier this season Ball averaged 35.3 fantasy points a game, and only his erratic rotations since have driven his price downward. Phoenix isn't the all-world match-up that they have been in the past, but they still play a top 11 pace with a defensive efficiency in the bottom half of the league. Ball seems like a solid value as a result. Isaiah Thomas FD - $5200 DK - $5200 Opponent - PHI Proj Pts FD - 25.72 DK - 27.89 I won't pretend like this play is risk free, but Thomas played 34 excellent minutes against the Magic his last time out, and it sure looks like he will get plenty of usage with all of the injury woes in Washington right now. The Wiz are really short on creators right now, and the 14 shots and 7 assists that Thomas managed against the Magic could be the norm going forward. If it is, he's about 20% too cheap on these prices, and I'm a buyer on a small slate. There are a lot of reasonable point guard options tonight, like Ricky Rubio, Ben Simmons, and even Russell Westbrook. I just think you'll want to pay up at other positions instead.     Shooting Guard James Harden FD - $12200 DK - $12000 Opponent - TOR Proj Pts FD - 62.22 DK - 65.28 It's a terrible match-up for Harden, but that's basically just giving us a discount on his true price right now. You follow basketball, so you're probably aware that Harden poured in 110 points from the field in his last two games. Sure, there was a double overtime game in there, but I mean, this sort of scoring is legitimately nuts. On a short slate I think he is still the premier payoff option even in a...

DFS NBA Podcast - FanDuel and DraftKings Plays for Wednesday 12/4/19 The DFSR crew is here for a big Wednesday of hoops action on FanDuel and DraftKings. They re rolling through all of the games talking lineups, injury news, value and much more. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA, NFL and NHL optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! They talk about Luka Doncic’s game and how he makes for such a safe payup option. They discuss bench chalk hitting or failing this season and have some examples of guys to discuss tonight coming off the bench. It’s a packed podcast with thoughts on every...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Wednesday, 12/4/19 After a slow DFS night on Tuesday, we're back at it with a 10-game schedule here. What's fascinating is that we have all 10 games with a spread of seven points or fewer. That's awesome with so many blowouts recently and that should make things easier on us. With that in mind, let's get into it!Head on over a for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our NFL 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 De'Anthony Melton FD - $4400 DK - $4600Opponent - CHIProj Pts FD - 24.46 DK - 23.53 We have some studs later on, so let's begin with some value plays at point guard. While we didn't really expect to see Melton find himself into any of our articles this season, here we are. An injury to Ja Morant is what's really opened things up for him, as that has garnered Melton at least 23 minutes in back-to-back games. More importantly, that has led to him scoring at least 33 DK points in both of those outings, severely out-playing Tyus Jones. If he continues to play like that, look for him to get more minutes and possibly start ahead of Jones. We're also not concerned with a 19th-ranked Bulls defense either, as these two terrible teams should play a competitive game.  Emmanuel Mudiay FD - $3500 DK - $3200Opponent - LALProj Pts FD - 21.91 DK - 22.87 With Mike Conley missing this game because of a hamstring issue, Mudiay should find himself as the starter. That's big news for a stat-stuffing player like this, as Mudiay was a solid fantasy option for the Knicks last season. He's actually always been a solid fantasy producer which is evident when you see that he's averaging 14.4 DK points in 15.3 minutes a game this season. That's a fantasy point-per minute player, which would equate to 25 DK points if he plays the 25 minutes that we anticipate. That would be huge for a player in the $3,500-range, making him a candidate to reach 7X value pretty easily.  Luka Doncic (FD 12500 DK 11600) is also in consideration with his absurd form but it's going to cost you a fortune.  Shooting Guard Donovan Mitchell FD - $8000 DK - $7100Opponent - LALProj Pts FD - 41.67 DK...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Monday, 12/2/19 Monday gives us some injury news, blowout risk and possibly a ton of cheap value on what could be a wild slate for DraftKings and FanDuel. Head on over a for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our NFL 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 Dennis Smith Jr. FD - $3600 DK - $3200Opponent - MILProj Pts FD - 27.39 DK - 28.74 Two things can be true. Dennis Smith Jr. can be not all that good at NBA basketball AND Dennis Smith Jr. can be a good DFS play. That’s the situation we have on Monday with the Knicks’ guard. Elfrid Payton is already out and Frank Ntilikina is considered doubtful after leaving Sunday’s game early. That’s going to leave a ton of minutes for Smith who is coming off playing 38 last night and finishing with a 17 point, seven assist line. In the New York “offense” he has a chance to get kind of lost for sure, especially if RJ Barrett takes a lot of the controls, but these prices are way to low to ignore and he should hit value almost regardless. He’s likely the highest owned player on the slate unless something changes. Tyus Jones FD - $4000 DK - $5600Opponent - INDProj Pts FD - 27.27 DK - 26.92De'Anthony Melton FD - $3500 DK - $3400Opponent - INDProj Pts FD - 22.28 DK - 21.51 Ja Morant is considered “week-to-week” which is code for “we’re tanking” meaning Tyus and De'Anthony are going to get a ton more run in the short term. On Sunday that meant Tyus for 26 minutes and Melton for 23. Jones finished with 12 points and seven assists and Melton went for nine points and eight assists. This is all to say, both hit crazy value and there’s a strong case to stack both in cash at their current price points because you get all of the Memphis PG minutes at a huge discount. Tyus is the safer bet because he’s starting, but realize that the Grizz have no real incentives here which make the DFS situation tricky. Other thoughtsMalcolm Brogdon (FD 8400 DK 8100) continues to be underpriced on DraftKings and has seen the minutes round back out after coming back from injury. He also gets a...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Sunday, 12/1/19 We have a slight deviation on format for this article, since main slate contains just 3 games, and each of those has a potentially wild game script cooking. With potential blowouts in Orlando and LA, and two brutal defenses squaring off in Toronto, this could be one of the more volatile slates in recent memory. The earlier slates honestly look better to me today. If you want access to the projections and lineups for those slates, feel free to grab a free trial by clicking the link below.  Head on over a for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our NFL 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. Golden State Warriors at the Orlando Magic The Magic are favored by 8.5 in a game with a 206.5 total. Well, the 7-11 Magic are 8.5 point favorites against the best dynasty of the 2010s, or at least what is left of them. With Russell ruled out and Draymond Green averaging 21 minutes in his last two games it's hard to imagine a world where the current construction of the Warriors aren't the worst team in the league. That being said, the Magic aren't exactly a dynasty in the making in their own right, and on a three game slate we can't play around the blowout risk too much here. The Orlando Magic Evan Fournier FD - $6300 DK - $6400Opponent - GSProj Pts FD - 31.47 DK - 32.72 Markelle Fultz FD - $5600 DK - $5300Opponent - GSProj Pts FD - 28.2 DK - 27.81 Aaron Gordon FD - $6100 DK - $6000Opponent - GSProj Pts FD - 30.21 DK - 30.64 These are your playable Magic, as far as our system is concerned. Gordon returned and played 31 minutes against Toronto, paying value on these prices. Fournier has been great since assuming more of the offensive burden when Vuc and Gordon were sidelined, and continued that excellence against the Raptors. Fultz is a solid value on these prices on a nightly basis. And, importantly, the Warriors are by far the worst defensive team on this slate whether Draymond plays or not. If this game stays remotely close, it will be tough for the Magic guys to not return value. If you're in a pickle, our system thinks Terrence Ross might...