FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Playoff Picks - Saturday Preview We've only got one game firing on Saturday, but it's playoff basketball! That means the DFS Gods have given us a two game slate, on FanDuel at least. Let's take a look at where we can grab value in these series right now. 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 our player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or MLB? Be sure to read our free NBA and MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Rockets (-3) vs. Warriors (+3) Vegas Implied Score: Golden State - 108.5 Houston - 111.5 Over/Under: 220.5 Well, with two games in the books so far it doesn't look like this year's Golden State vs. Houston series will live up to last year's barn burner. The Rockets have managed to hang, but game two never quite felt as close as the final score would have you believe. The Warriors jumped out to a 9 point lead in the first quarter of game two, and never really looked back. Still, Vegas has the Rockets as three point favorites as the series travels to Houston, so let's take a look at each team and see what we learned from game two. Golden State The Warriors have been the more adaptable team of the two so far in the playoffs, shedding Bogut's minutes in favor of a true small ball lineup that starts Draymond at the five, giving Boogie's old minutes to Andre Iguodala. They've neutralized Clint Capela by either running him off the floor (game 1) or getting him into foul trouble (game 2), and this has basically let the Dubs get away with a murderously small lineup. By shifting Draymond to the five, Durant to the four, and Iggy to the three, they actually match up totally acceptably everywhere else. Unless the Rockets can figure out how to punish them, it's hard to believe they won't just stick with what is working right now - heavily consolidated minutes into the hands of their current starting lineup. Andre Iguodala FD - $5700 DK - $5800Opponent - HOUProj Pts FD - 28.66 DK - 27.68 This is the easy one. Iggy has been wildly efficient (6-9 shooting in game two), but has been involved elsewhere as well, chipping in 5 boards and 4 assists while playing his characteristically great defense. He can cover Harden (as well as anyone, anyway), and greatly reduces the defensive burden of the...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Playoff Picks - Round Friday Preview The Sixers dominated the Raptors on Thursday to take a 2-1 series lead. On Friday, we get two more series in which the home team, having already stolen a game, will get a chance to take control of the best of seven. 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 our player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or MLB? Be sure to read our free NBA and MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Bucks (1.5) vs. Celtics (-1.5) Vegas Projected Score: Boston - 111 Milwaukee - 109 Over/Under: 220 Series: 1-1 With two games under our belt in this series, we have two 20+ point blowouts. It looks like the Bucks will cruise to a sweep - wait a second, the Celtics and Bucks each have a 20+ point blowout under their belts? Well this is getting complicated, isn't it? On a high level blowouts tell us very little about what each team plans to do, but there actually are a few takeaways we can draw from this one, I think. Boston Value The Horford/Irving show was put on hold for at least game two, but unfortunately this game really didn't teach us too much about how the Celtics will continue to adjust to Milwaukee's speed and length. It didn't teach us nothing, though, so let's have a look. Hey, if Vegas thinks this is going to be a 2 point game they should play a close one at some point, right. Right?! Marcus Morris FD - $5900 DK - $4600Opponent - MILProj Pts FD - 28.03 DK - 29.08 Our very own James Davis famously called that the Celtics would start running Morris for extended minutes, and that certainly still seems to be the plan going forward here. Morris actually led the Celtics in fantasy points in game two, even it was a rather modest 29 fantasy point contribution. Still, that's plenty on his current prices at a truly dismal position, and it stands to reason that the Celtics will continue to rely upon him as a long and athletic body given that that's been their plan in the last three meetings between these teams. Jaylen Brown FD - $5300 DK - $5200Opponent - MILProj Pts FD - 29.47 DK - 29.56 Brown was the one piece that the Celtics simply couldn't get away from in game two, even as Stevens tried to shuffle the other...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Playoff Picks - Round Two Wednesday-Thursday Preview Wednesday and Thursday feature one game each in the NBA with Trailblazers and Nuggets playing Wednesday followed by the Sixers and Raptors on Thursday. Let's break down what to expect in each affair. 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 our player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or MLB? Be sure to read our free NBA and MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Trail Blazers (4) vs. Nuggets (-4) Vegas Projected Score: Denver - 111.75 Portland - 107.75 Over/Under: 219.5 Series: Denver 1-0 Denver survived a seven-game series against the Spurs by the skin of their teeth, looking real shaky at times (especially late game against San Antonio in the final game). But they started this second round on a positive note, beating the Blazers by eight thanks to some opportune rotations by Mike Malone and good three-point shooting. This matchup provides Denver with some tactical advantages, mostly around their size with Nikola Jokic and Mason Plumlee. We’ll get into their respective minutes in a moment, but it was clear Denver wanted to exploit some big man advantages against Enes Kanter and company. Meanwhile, Portland played its bench a bit more than expected with guys like Aminu and Harkless getting the short end of the minutes’ stick when it was all said and done. Tactically this series is far from set in stone and we could see some more *odd* rotations before it’s all said and done. Portland Value If Game 1 is any indication, this is going to be a tough team to roster going forward. Only Damian Lillard (FD 10200 DK 9400), C.J. McCollum (FD 7700 DK 6700) and Enes Kanter (FD 7000 DK 6000) played anything like *starter’s* minutes. Of that group, Kanter is still the best value going with Lillard and CJ now priced almost all the way up for their production and usage rate throughout the playoffs. Kanter had a very good Game 1, finishing with 26 points and seven rebounds. His defense wasn’t terrible to the point of having him benched and really, at this point, the Blazers might just be pot-committed with the big man. They have few options off the bench with Meyers Leonard and Zach Collins struggling with Denver’s size. Denver Value Nikola Jokic FD - $11800 DK - $10300Opponent - PORProj Pts FD - 55.39 DK - 57.26 Jokic played a staggering 40 minutes for...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Playoff Picks - Round Two Monday Preview Sunday wrapped up an interesting day in the NBA with the Celtics thrashing the Bucks in a surprise win and the Rockets-Warriors game going down to the wire. For Monday, we get game two in the Philly/ Toronto series as well as the opener of Denver/ Portland. 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 our player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or MLB? Be sure to read our free NBA and MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. 76ers (6.5) vs. Raptors (-6.5) Vegas Projected Score: Toronto - 113.5 Philadelphia - 107 Over/Under: 220.5 Series: Toronto 1-0 Toronto took care of business in Game 1, disposing of the Sixers in with a 108-95 victory that saw the starters from both teams hit the bench with about four minutes left to go in regulation. A lot will be made of how the Raptors were essentially a two-man team on offense between Kawhi Leonard and Pascal Siakam. This is true, though ignores the fact that it was relatively easy for these two in their respective matchups. The Raptors simply didn’t need to work at all to get anyone else involved. Kawhi and Pascal just roasted the Simmons/ Harris/ Butler defensive *schemes* the Sixers threw out there. On the other end of the court, the Raptors played the kind of defense that we expected. Philly couldn’t get much of anything going in the half court and were constantly settling for poor shots and busted possessions. Personally, I don’t have a lot of confidence in Brett Brown to make adjustments going forward, though I’d be happy to be proven wrong on that so the series stays competitive. Toronto Value Kawhi Leonard FD - $9700 DK - $9000Opponent - PHIProj Pts FD - 54.48 DK - 54.48 Pascal Siakam FD - $8300 DK - $7300Opponent - PHIProj Pts FD - 45.53 DK - 45.43 Look, these two dudes dominated in Game 1 and came out with about as good fantasy performances as you could ever hope for. And even with those peak games, and the price increases they are still the go-to fantasy plays on this slate. You aren’t getting anything like discounts on the Portland backcourt, and I have some real concerns about paying top dollar for Jokic. That kind of leaves us with these two. I’m confident in max minutes from both, and while I don’t think the scoring...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Playoff Picks - Round Two Sunday Preview  The very worst teams have been eliminated, and the real NBA playoffs begin. We've got two dynamite 1-4 match-ups today, and two series that many people believe may as well just be the conference finals. I'm not sure these series will be as close as some people believe they will be, but let's just dive into it and see where we can find some DFS value. 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 our player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with NBA or MLB? Be sure to read our free NBA and MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered. Celtics (7.5) vs. Bucks (-7.5) Vegas Projected Score: Milwaukee - 115 Boston - 107.5 Over/Under: 222.5 Vegas sees both of these series as what we'll call "close, but clear," with Milwaukee and Golden State both showing up as healthy game one favorites. Milwaukee has the slightly bigger spread at -7.5, but for all intents and purposes I think we can set aside blowout risk for the sake of projecting these games. That's actually a pretty sizable difference from round one, where we had concerns about starters' minutes for all four of the teams playing today. Milwaukee held a narrow 2-1 series lead during the regular season, which was decided by a one point victory in their only meeting in 2019 around the All-Star break. Milwaukee, though, gets arguably the biggest bump of any of the teams going today. Detroit with no Blake (or at least no fully healthy Blake) was embarrassingly overmatched, but that theoretically shouldn't be the case for the Celtics here. As a result we're giving the Bucks' starters roughly 10% more minutes, which is a significant difference maker here. I personally feel as though people are overrating the Celtics based on their seemingly decisive round one victory over the over-achieving Pacers, and of all the round two series we've got going this is the one where I think blowouts are the most likely. Still, let's get to some of the value. Milwaukee Giannis Antetokounmpo FD - $11000 DK - $10000Opponent - BOSProj Pts FD - 59.34 DK - 61.12 Khris Middleton FD - $7600 DK - $6200Opponent - BOSProj Pts FD - 35.96 DK - 37.58 Brook Lopez FD - $6500 DK - $5600Opponent - BOSProj Pts FD - 29.34 DK - 29 Yep, I'm buying essentially all of the Bucks' starters for this one. I'll...