Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 3/7/16 Well, we're coming off one of the weirder days in the NBA. An historically great team lost to an historically bad team. Some absolutely huge performances led to lots of 400+ point lineups on a relatively short slate. Just weird. Since this is the NBA, today will probably be weird, too. The big narrative of the day will likely be: Will the Warriors go berserker mode on the poor Magic? Let's break down the top plays. If you want to grab a free trial of the winning projections that inform each and every one of these picks, check out our NBA Optimal Lineups, Projections, Player Cards and Google Chrome extension that auto-populates your lineups into FanDuel. 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, POINT GUARD Chris Paul - FD 10000 DK 9700 Opponent - DAL FD Proj. Pts - 46.21 DK Proj. Pts - 48.11 Paul increased on his league leading time of possession per game from 8.7 minutes in January to 9.1 in February. The trend is clear - when Blake is out of the picture, Paul is the entire facilitator of the Clippers' offense. He's got 6 straight games with a double-double, and averaged 6 rebounds during those game as well. He's filling it up right now, and looks like a very safe 50/50 play in a league average match-up with the Mavs. After watching Mudiay get 21 shots in the air against the ailing Deron Williams, it's hard to imagine what Paul can do to him on the 2nd night of a back to back after an overtime game. Rajon Rondo - FD 8600 DK 8000 Opponent - NOP FD Proj. Pts - 38.73 DK Proj. Pts - 39.44 Rondo's been averaging 13 assists a game since the All-Star break, and he's locked into 37-40 minutes a game at the moment. He manages to have the 7th highest time of possession per game in spite of sharing the court with two huge ball hogs (Boogie, Rudy Gay), which is really saying something. The Pelicans have allowed the 10th most points per game to opposing point guards, and this has all the makings of high teens assists game...

Daily Fantasy Basketball Injury News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 2/26/16 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 Rodney Stuckey is expected to play It's hard to say how many minutes he's going to take, given that it's his first game now. A lot has changed since Stuckey went down for the Pacers. Myles Turner is playing more than twice as many minutes now than he was, for instance. For now, we've offered downward guidance on Ellis and George Hill. Stuckey's not a risk worth taking at this point, and this might move Ellis from being a "super safe" play, to a little more speculative. Chris Paul - FD 9800 DK 9600 Opponent - SAC FD Proj. Pts - 44.12 DK Proj. Pts - 46.01 Chris Paul is playing. He suffered a little arm woes in the 4th quarter of his last game, but it didn't seem to cause him a lot of problems. Deploy him as usual.   What We’re Waiting to Know What's up withRajon Rondo's toe or thumb or whatever He's been listed as probable for weeks, and this downgrade to questionable is ominous. Darren Collison has already been playing a lot of minutes, so more run would make him a phenomenal play. Keep on eye on this, especially for late-swap sites like DraftKings. Tony Allen's status He's being listed as questionable after missing a game where he was active. I'm assuming he'll play limited minutes as best, and like all the Memphis guys as much as I did in their last go-around. <Pau Gasol and Derrick...