FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Friday, 1/10/20 Welcome, DFSRNation! You've hustled and grinded all week and now get to reap the rewards of a ten-game slate of NBA action to kick off the weekend. Our own Jerry Vanderwoude is ready to break down the top plays at each position as determined by our famous NBA projection system, so brace yourself as we get set to do it to 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 Lonzo Ball FD - $6400 DK - $7300Opponent - NYProj Pts FD - 37.25 DK - 38.5 Lonzo Ball is coming to us as a tremendous value at the point. Since returning to the starting five, Lonzo's price has jumped across the industry but there is still plenty of room for growth when you consider the most recent production he's been creating. Ball has started eight straight games and in that time has averaged nearly 36 fantasy points per game eclipsing the 40 point mark three times in his last five starts. For that, he should easily be priced closer to the $8K mark. The Knicks are average defending against the position, so the match-up is nothing to fret over. All in all, it's a buyers market on Ball, and I will be all in with my cash games. Ricky Rubio FD - $6600 DK - $6900Opponent - ORLProj Pts FD - 35.65 DK - 36.4 Ricky Rubio has hit a bit of a scoring slump over the Suns' last several games, failing to hit double digits in four straight. He's been playing through some ailments, so that could be factoring into play, but he continues to be a steady source of production regardless, dishing out several assists per game while mixing in the rebounds and steals for good measure. In the short term with his scoring woes, Rubio's price has dropped across the industry. This creates appeal in a game against the Magic with a combined pace factor of 102.5 and an opening line favoring Phoenix by just two points. Rubio is priced perfectly for our cash game needs, and if he manages to find his shot he's a threat to crush over 6.5X points per dollar (PPD), so don't be shy to run with Ricky...

DFS NBA Podcast - FanDuel and DraftKings Plays for Thursday 1/9/20 James Davis and Doug Norrie are breaking down a Thursday slate of action on their DFS NBA Podcast for FanDuel and DraftKings. 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! It's just a four game slate of NFL DFS action on FanDuel and DraftKings, but there are still a lot of interesting decisions to make. With Joel Embiid out for the Sixers, which of the remaining players should show up in our cash game lineups? Is something up with Al Horford? Is Ben Simmons a must? There's a lot to break down. There's a lot of sneaky DFS value in the Cleveland/Detroit game, which is a rematch of their Tuesday meeting. In that game Love, Drummond, and Rose were excellent. Should we go back to the well? You have the ever-questionable Karl-Anthony Towns, CP3 and Russ going against their old teams, and more! For just four games, there sure is a lot to talk...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Thursday, 1/9/20 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 Chris Paul FD - $7200 DK - $7400 Opponent - HOU Proj Pts FD - 40.75 DK - 41.25 Chris Paul has just been awesome this season, and has exceeded basically everyone's expectations for real life basketball and DFS. While he didn't have a great game against the Rockets in their last meeting, he's still been steadily paying these prices all season long so long as the game stays close. This is match-up is against a Rockets team that plays a league average defensive efficiency with the 2nd fastest pace, and given that we are getting Paul at normal prices he looks like a discount here. Point guard is tough tonight, and Paul looks like a nice way to lock in some midrange value. Derrick Rose FD - $6600 DK - $6500 Opponent - CLE Proj Pts FD - 36.82 DK - 37.21 Rose started the second half in this very match-up against Cleveland on Tuesday, and wound up playing a season high 31 minutes en route to a very solid 24/3/7 line. It's annoying that the sites have jumped the gun on raising Rose's prices, as it looks like he's finally stepping into the 30+ minute role we all hoped he was capable of. He's scored 30 fantasy points a game this season on 25 minutes per game, so raising that total by 20% means we have a great play for every format against this lousy Cleveland team. Also considered: Russell Westbrook and Damian Lillard, both of whom look like decent pay-up options tonight. Shooting Guard James Harden FD - $11200 DK - $12200 Opponent - OKC Proj Pts FD - 64.17 DK - 67.22 A night after Harden likely set the record for highest ownership on a regular slate at a staggering 98%, I think we can go right back to the well here against the Thunder. This actually isn't a good match-up at all, as the back-court duo of Paul and SGA is one of the toughest in the league, but on a night with precious few pay-off options it's just going to be hard to put together a Hardenless lineup if there are any cheap...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Wednesday, 1/8/20 The last couple of Wednesdays have been bizarre because of the holidays but we're back at it here with a normal slate. In fact, we have nine games ahead of us here, making for a dynamo DFS day. One thing to consider is that we have a lot of lopsided matchups on this slate. That's evident when you take a look at the spreads, with numerous elite teams facing off with some of the weaker clubs in the NBA. With that in mind, let's go ahead and 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 Trae Young FD - $9000 DK - $9700Opponent - HOUProj Pts FD - 52.24 DK - 55.25 Many people will pivot to Harden and rightfully so, but Young is quietly one of the best plays on the board too. We're talking about a guy who's averaging 49.3 DK points per game, one of the league leaders in minutes played, usage rate and shots taken. That's a recipe for success in a matchup like this with the Rockets surrendering the third-most fantasy points to opposing point guards this season. That was certainly the case in their last meeting, with Young dropping 52.3 DK points in just 31 minutes of play.  Lonzo Ball FD - $6300 DK - $7400Opponent - CHIProj Pts FD - 35.92 DK - 37.21 Ball was a huge disappointment early on but he's really hit his stride recently. Not only has he scored at least 38 DK points in four-straight games, Ball is also averaging 47 fantasy points per game in that span. That's a truly ridiculous total from a guy who's just $6,300 on FanDuel and it would be hard to imagine that not continuing with Jrue Holiday missing this game. We don't hate the matchup either, as this should be a competitive game between two sub-par teams in one of the most up-tempo matchups of the evening.  We also like Kyle Lowry against a 27th-ranked Hornets defense with seemingly every other Toronto player injured.  Shooting Guard James Harden FD - $11200 DK - $12800Opponent - ATLProj Pts FD - 63.24 DK - 66.02 Harden is the most expensive player on the slate and I'd argue that...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Monday, 1/6/20 Welcome friends to Monday night in the NBA. We've got nine games on the docket for tonight and there is a ton of value up for grabs. Join Jerry as he takes you position by position through some of our NBA projection system's top plays to consider when building your fantasy lineups. 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 Aaron Holiday FD - $5600 DK - $5800 Opponent - CHA Proj Pts FD - 31.2 DK - 32.13 Malcolm Brogdon remains out for the Pacers which means we can continue to count on a healthy helping of Aaron Holiday in the Indiana backcourt. Holiday has started two straight, and seven of the last eight for the Pacers and in that time he has averaged nearly a fantasy point per minute in just under 30 minutes average per game. The Hornets are a slightly above average matchup for opposing point guards, but this game is expected to remain competitive throughout, so I'm not overly concerned about a less than ideal matchup. As long as Holiday can keep himself out of foul trouble he should see more than enough time to get us where we want to be in cash games. J.J. Barea FD - $4200 DK - $4500 Opponent - CHI Proj Pts FD - 26.87 DK - 28.79 One minute it looked like J.J. Barea, fresh off a torn Achilles, was going to be riding the pine for much of the season with just the occasional appearance off the bench, but with the recent loss of Tim Hardaway to a hamstring injury, Barea has started two straight contests for the Mavs and has looked quite good doing so. In 32 minutes against the Hornets on Saturday Barea came an assist shy of a double-double and had his second straight game scoring at least ten points. THJ is listed as questionable and could be close to a return so keep an eye on the situation, but if Barea remains in the starting five for Dallas, he is sitting at an optimal price even against a stingy Chicago defense. Consider Kris Dunn (FD $5000 DK $4900) and Tomas Satoransky (FD $5400 DK $5500) on the other side of...