FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Monday, 5/24/21 Head on over a for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer, our MLB 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 Jrue Holiday FD - $7900 DK - $7700 Opponent - MIA Proj Pts FD - 41.41 DK - 41.65 Playoff NBA DFS largely amounts to capturing players whose opportunities have changed faster than their prices, and to that end, I present you Jrue Holiday. Jrue played 37.5 minutes in regulation in the Bucks' opener with the Heat, and was phenomenal, posting 21/11/3 line with 3 steals to boot. Those assist numbers can only go up, and while the rebounds should go down, the assists should more than make up the difference. Point guard is relatively thin on value, and taking part of Milwaukee's big three looks like an easy call here. Facundo Campazzo FD - $5400 DK - $5700 Opponent - POR Proj Pts FD - 27.9 DK - 27.93 Playoff slates are generally lacking in value, so Campazzo might be the best we get on the cheaper end of things. The scrappy Argentinian played 31.5 minutes in the Nuggets' opener, and while he wasn't the focal point of the offense by any means, he did enough to pay these prices with a little bit left over. The Trail Blazers should respond to the Nuggets' game 1 gameplan by sending more help at Jokic, and if they do, it will leave Campazzo and the other Nuggets more room to cook. Also considered: Damian Lillard, of course, though he's looking a little too rich for my blood considering where you'll likely want to spend up elsewhere. Shooting Guard C.J. McCollum FD - $7500 DK - $7300 Opponent - DEN Proj Pts FD - 41.52 DK - 43.01 CJ was solid in the Blazers' opener, scoring 21 points while chipping in 6 rebounds and 3 assists. The Blazers' starters arguably would have played a little more had this one been a little closer, and the 35 FanDuel points he scored in game one sort of seemed like his floor. The Nuggets are not the same defensive team they were earlier this season, and I think the best of CJ is yet to come in this series. Donte DiVincenzo FD - $5300 DK - $4900 Opponent - MIA Proj Pts FD -...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Sunday, 5/23/21 Head on over for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer 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 Ben Simmons FD - $7700 DK - $7100Opponent - WASProj Pts FD - 43.46 DK - 43.15 The Sixers draw, by far, the best matchup on this slate against the Wizards who will likely want to get into a sprint for this one. Washington played the fastest pace in the league this season and was a bottom-third defense. They are the worst team to get into the playoffs and Philly draws them first. Simmons didn’t have a great statistical season though he’s not priced like a superstar at this point anyway. This is still a dude who put up 14 points, seven rebounds and seven assists while adding 2.2 blocks plus steals in fewer than 33 minutes. Those are set to really increase here if the game stays close and I think he has a high enough floor in this matchup. Trae Young FD - $8700 DK - $8500Opponent - NYProj Pts FD - 47.14 DK - 51.31 Point guard isn’t all that great a position on this slate with some of the other options either coming in as too expensive or in tough matchups. I don’t love him facing up against the very slow and defensively sound Knicks, but that’s something of a theme on this slate. Young should play a ton in this game and New York’s perimeter defense could be put to the test with what Trae brings to the court. Again, I don’t want to pay all the way up for Westbrook against the Sixers and Conley gets dinged with Mitchell coming back into the fold. Derrick Rose (FD $5900 DK $5500) could end up playing a lot off the bench to give the Knicks more scoring options. Shooting Guard Devin Booker FD - $7800 DK - $8000Opponent - LALProj Pts FD - 44.9 DK - 46.9 Booker is in a bad matchup against the Lakers who will likely run Caruso a lot here to deal with him on the defensive end. But for a guy who is going to see his minutes really ramp up in this game, he’s coming a little underpriced for how much he can score. Booker had an up and down final month of the...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks All-Day Playoff Slate - Saturday, 5/22/21 Head on over for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer 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 Luka Doncic FD - $10000 DK - $10500Opponent - LACProj Pts FD - 55.87 DK - 58.68 There’s a lot to like with these opening series and Saturday is full of action. We are going to focus on a few of the superstars playing and it’s going to be tough getting away from Luka here. Dallas will need him to play a ton if they have hope of advancing through this series against the Clippers and he was actually able to do work against this squad last season in the playoffs. Last year in the bubble against the Clippers he averaged 31 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists for the series while also contributing on the defensive end as well. I think we can assume similar lines for him in this series. Kemba Walker FD - $7800 DK - $7500Opponent - BKNProj Pts FD - 38.53 DK - 40.18 For the Celtics to hope to make this anything like a series they are going to need a ton of scoring from Kemba. In the play-in game against the Wizards, he took a whopping 24 shots in the win, dropping 29 points when it was all said and done. The Celtics will need all of that and more if they hope to keep pace with the Nets. With Jaylen Brown out of the lineup, Boston is short on scoring options meaning Kemba’s usage should remain high. If you think the Clippers start bumping up his minutes a little then Patrick Beverley (FD $3700 DK $3300) isn’t a terrible punt play if he’s starting. Shooting Guard C.J. McCollum FD - $7500 DK - $7900Opponent - DENProj Pts FD - 42.61 DK - 44.14 Even with the Blazers playing at mostly full-strength to finish off the season, McCollum was able to find enough scoring in this offense to mostly justify these prices. It’s easier to swallow on FanDuel for sure, but it’s close on DraftKings if you think the minutes get pushed close to 40. Over the last five games, he’s averaging 26 points, five assists and three rebounds which is just about at value on these prices and that was on minutes lower...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks Western Conference Play-In Games, Wednesday, 5/19/21 Head on over for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer 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 Stephen Curry FD - $10400 DK - $10100Opponent - LALProj Pts FD - 57.94 DK - 61.73 Man oh man, did Stephen Curry ever have a season here. It was really something, carrying the Warriors throughout and putting them on his back for the entirety. He and Lebron have been on a collision course over the last couple of weeks of the season and now they are here with a chance to lock up the 7th seed in just one game. If there was a game for Curry to run low-40s minutes, this is the one. He dropped 46 points in a must-win over the Grizzlies on Sunday and just casually led the league in scoring shooting 42% from three on a ridiculous 12.7 attempts per game. The Lakers matchup isn’t a good one, but this is Steph we are talking about. Dejounte Murray FD - $7700 DK - $6300Opponent - MEMProj Pts FD - 40.37 DK - 40.48 Murray should be good for minutes in the upper-30s in this game giving him a very high floor considering how he scores his fantasy points. He struggled in the final game of the year against the Suns, but on the season he was good for 16 points, seven rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.5 steals in 32 minutes per game. That should increase here and because he’s not scoring dependent the risk is a little lower at this price point. If there was a Grizzlies player who was going to play 40+ minutes, it would be Ja Morant (FD $7500 DK $8300) Shooting Guard DeMar DeRozan FD - $7500 DK - $7000Opponent - MEMProj Pts FD - 42.86 DK - 43.35 Like Murray, we could see DeRozan play minutes in the high-30s in this game. His pricing in the middle tier makes him an attractive play on this shorter slate. DDR didn’t shoot as much this season, taking only 15 shots per game, but was still efficient from the field at 50%. His scoring ability should be on display in this game and he’s facing a Memphis team that played the 8th-fastest pace in the league this season. Dillon Brooks FD - $6800...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Eastern Conference Play-In Games Tuesday, 5/18/21 Head on over for your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA FanDuel and DraftKings optimizer 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 Russell Westbrook FD - $13000 DK - $12400Opponent - BOSProj Pts FD - 59.05 DK - 62.9 It’s a shorter two-game play-in slate here and it’s going to be tough to fade Russell Westbrook even at these higher prices. He’s coming in at some of the biggest salary numbers you’ve seen, but it is completely warranted. He’s a near-lock to play 40+ minutes in this game and even with Bradley Beal back the last couple of games, he put up an average of 22 points, 14 assists, and 14 rebounds. The stat accumulation is nearly unmatched and it's lead to the crazy prices, but the floor is so damn high in this game. Kemba Walker FD - $8200 DK - $7300Opponent - WASProj Pts FD - 41.91 DK - 43.47 The bad news first: Kemba hasn’t played in more than a week, sitting out the last few games of the Celtics’ season. That does give me some pause around what his minute's floor looks like in this game. But before he went down the minute's leash was lifted and he played 35, 40, and 38 minutes in his final three games. He dropped more than 30 points in two of those games. Keep an ear out for whether the Celts have a minutes cap on him. And I’ll also say, I like this play a lot less if Jaylen Brown actually makes a return to the fold. Shooting Guard Marcus Smart FD - $5700 DK - $5800Opponent - WASProj Pts FD - 33.95 DK - 34.1 Like Kemba Walker, I’m a little concerned about the Celtics plan with Marcus Smart here. He also hasn’t played in a week, but it does look a lot like injury management and he’s not on the report leading into this game. That leads me to think he’s a full-go in this game. If that’s the case then he does represent one of the better ways to save in the middle tier which isn’t always that easy in these smaller playoff slates. And hopefully, the minutes are going to win out here. Terry Rozier FD - $7200 DK - $7700Opponent - INDProj Pts FD -...