Daily Fantasy Basketball Injury News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 4/12/16 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! START YOUR FREE TRIAL! What We Know OKC is sitting everybody that is good So what's it mean? A bad match-up, but TONS of opportunity for Kanter, Foye, Morrow, Payne, and Waiters. Every single one of them paid value, and it makes sense. They are free, and we're freeing up like 110 minutes per game here. Kanter had an absurd 33/20 line and was the play of the night against Portland, and I assume that will be the case here as well. Paul George is playing Not exactly huge news, but this obviously eliminates guys like CJ Miles from consideration. As for George, I am still not sure the Pacers are hell-bent on trying for the 7th seed, so I'd deploy him very cautiously.   What We're Waiting to Know Carmelo Anthony - in or out? This would be huge for the Knicks because it would free up not only Melo's minutes, but his shots as well. Melo only played 26 minutes in his last game, but his absence would mean great things for Derrick Williams in particular - a good play that would become great. Will Tony Allen suit up? He sat against Golden State, and that meant big minutes for both Lance Stephenson and Vince Carter. Lance was awful, but Vince was terrific. Neither is anything more than a speculative play for me today. The "Every Lineup" Guys Enes Kanter - FD 5600 DK 5400 Opponent - SAS FD Proj. Pts - 34.05 DK Proj. Pts - 34.98 Dion Waiters - FD 3900 DK 3600 Opponent - SAS FD Proj. Pts - 24.32 DK Proj. Pts - 25.72 This one is easy. Last time the Thunder sat their big three Mr. Kanter drew the start and was basically a one-man wrecking crew. He piled on the points with a 33/20 line and I suspect he's the most popular play on the day today. He's not a punt play necessarily, but that doesn't matter on this slate. Kanter...

Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 4/12/16 The late season NBA is making me actually tear my hair out. What's left of it, anyway. I'm going to look like Doug soon 🙁 I've been listening to this piano piece from DFSR user Jared Reynolds on repeat to try and calm my nerves. But you do your thing. So, where to begin? There's not a team playing today that is playing for anything. So we have that going for us, which is nice. It should be just about the least certain day ever, making these picks somewhat of an exercise in futility. You absolutely have to follow up with the updates article (which will be posted around noon EST at the latest), and of course, we'll be updating our projection system as news rolls in throughout the day. That being said, let's try and tackle the beast. Now’s your chance to get a free trial of DFSR Pro with NBA Optimal Lineups, Projections, and Player Cards! While the seasons overlap, you'll get access to our tools for the NBA, NHL, and MLB! 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. POINT GUARD Ish Smith - FD 6700 DK 6500 Opponent - TOR FD Proj. Pts - 34.3 DK Proj. Pts - 35.21 Prepared for the first shocker of the night? I'm playing 76ers today! In a terrible match-up with the Raptors! The reasoning is pretty straightofrward, actually. It's a small slate, and the only certainty is uncertainty. The Sixers, meanwhile, have been mathematically eliminated since December, and we can have a pretty good sense of what they intend to do right now. What's that? Their best. Ish played 39 minutes (albeit in overtime) against the Bucks, and now has back to back 41+ fantasy point games. He's attacking the rim again, and I suspect we'll see more of the same now that Cleveland has locked up the 1 seed and he should be playing against a fair amount of B-teamers here. I like him in any format. Russell Westbrook - FD 10400 DK 10100 Opponent - SAS FD Proj. Pts - 45.73 DK Proj. Pts - 47.3 So this comes with a huge caveat - I expect the Thunder to rest on of their big two tonight, and if that happens to be KD, then I love Westbrook. The Spurs have nothing left to play for, and while the Thunder don't either, the Spurs seem a lot more likely to go totally weird in this game....

Daily Fantasy Basketball Injury News and Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 4/11/16 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! START YOUR FREE TRIAL! What We Know Very little! The only fairly clear one to me is that Aaron Gordon and Victor Oladipo are really, really unlikely to play today. Both are dealing with concussion issues, and even Scott Skiles ought to be smart enough to preserve the actual brains of his two building block players. As for what will happen if they do both miss again, it's a bit of a mystery. The Magic got blown out by the Heat on Sunday, and minutes were all over the place. The way it looked like things were trending before things got out of hand, I'd guess Fournier, Vucevic, and Hezonja will all be solid DFS plays in their absence tonight. Do I trust it? No. No, I don't. But I wouldn't be shocked if winning tournament lineups had one of those guys in it. Derrick Rose and E'Twaun Moore are shut down, leaving plenty of room for Justin Holiday With Rose and Moore shelved for the season and Butler almost certainly in line for some kind of reprieve, Holiday is one of the last men standing in Chicago. Paying today's prices should be rather trivial to the heir apparent to all the guard minutes, but there's some risk if Aaron Brooks gets hot or plays a bigger role than we anticipate. Pau is out, and I'm confused, but I like Nikola Mirotic Full disclosure - this one might not be for the faint of heart. The Bulls are going to be short something like 90 minutes (Rose, Moore, Gasol), and we don't really have precedent for this. The nice thing is that they're playing against another D-League squad in New Orleans, so once we hear who's starting we should at least be mildly out of the woods. I like Mirotic best because of the track record, but I could definitely see Cristiano Felicio and Bobby Portis putting up big games as well. Rondo, Collison, and Belinelli are out Uh....

Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 4/11/16 Late season NBA hurts. Late scratches of great fantasy plays are the norm, so we're performing without a net in a lot of ways. That said, we've still got just enough certainty left that it's not a complete crapshoot. The East is locked up, so there's no real telling what Chicago will do tonight. The West is still open, with Houston, Dallas, and Utah still playing for something. After that... it's anybody's guess. Let's go through it the old fashioned way - position by position - and see what we can figure out. Full disclaimer - do NOT play slates like these unless you can follow news right up to lineup locks, and this is a time of year where late-swap options really help (thanks, DraftKings). And, as always, good teams with nothing to play for are much riskier than teams long eliminated or teams still fighting for something. You have been warned. Now’s your chance to get a free trial of DFSR Pro with NBA Optimal Lineups, Projections, and Player Cards! While the seasons overlap, you'll get access to our tools for the NBA, NHL, and MLB! 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. A quick heads up - we post an updates article every day in the early afternoon, EST, to catch everyone up on how things are changing as a result of whatever news has come through. We also have great talks in the comments of that article. Hope to see you there! POINT GUARD Ramon Sessions - FD 4200 DK 4600 Opponent - BKN FD Proj. Pts - 25.07 DK Proj. Pts - 25.85 Washington has thrown up the white flag, and this has meant wonderful things for Ramon Sessions' daily fantasy basketball value. He's scored 39+ fantasy points in 2 of his last three games, which, if you're new to DFS, is pretty damned awesome on these price points. He's dominating the ball (as evidenced by his double digit assists in those 2 big games), and completing running the offense. Brooklyn is about as good a match-up as he could hope for as well. Not only have they sucked against point guards all season, but they're playing without anything resembling NBA players as well, so a blowout is less likely than it normally would be. I'll be playing Sessions everywhere. Darren Collison - FD 6300 DK 6100 Opponent - PHX FD Proj. Pts - 27.34 DK Proj. Pts - 28.81 With the...

Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 4/10/16 Let's get the awkward bit out of the way to start - if you play the all-day slate today, you're simply a masochist. Not that there aren't strategies one could employ. You could theoretically stack the early teams in 50/50s and double-ups and go for the gold with some late game speculation, but I'm not sure it's going to be for me. Okay, I'm sure I'll just wind up gambling and being mad afterward. But still. Today, as it has been recently, is completely bananas. If you've been following, though, you'll know we've been making some pretty decent banana splits with them. For now the time of bad puns has passed, and on to some actual analysis! We have our usual smattering of teams with nothing to play for who seem safe (Milwaukee, for instance), the teams who actually have something to play for that seem safe (Dallas, Houston, Utah), and then... everybody else. If you're building a cash game strategy today, it makes sense to simply take guys from teams with very well established minutes patterns. Anything else seems crazy. As for the rest? Let's jump in. Now’s your chance to get a free trial of DFSR Pro with NBA Optimal Lineups, Projections, and Player Cards! While the seasons overlap, you'll get access to our tools for the NBA, NHL, and MLB! 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. A quick heads up - we post an updates article every day in the early afternoon, EST, to catch everyone up on how things are changing as a result of whatever news has come through. We also have great talks in the comments of that article. Hope to see you there! POINT GUARD Raymond Felton - FD 4800 DK 4600 Opponent - LAC FD Proj. Pts - 25.05 DK Proj. Pts - 26.75 Seems like it makes sense to start with one team that has positively everything to play for - the Dallas Mavericks. With Barea ailing and Williams looking like a long shot, the Mavs' playoff hopes will lie in the potentially capable hands of Raymond Felton. He's been fairly solid when pressed into service running the point this season, at least from a fantasy perspective, and on a day filled with uncertainty, he's the best I can present to you. He racked up 14 assists when Barea went down against Memphis, and while he's not a favorite for 40 fantasy points today, I'd certainly say...