FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Tuesday 8/18/20 The first day of the playoffs didn't disappoint with an OT game, the Nets hanging at least for a bit and the other games offering enough intrigue to keep it all interesting. We've got another run of four games on Tuesday with pleny of storylines to sink our teeth into. 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 Chris Paul FD - $7200 DK - $7700Opponent - HOUProj Pts FD - 41.92 DK - 42.41Revenge narrative?! It’s so fitting that Chris Paul and the Thunder will take on the now-Westbrook-less Houston Rockets and James Harden. Paul has had a spectacular season, leading the Thunder to a somewhat improbable playoff run. For the season, he averaged 17 points and seven assists and the .552 effective field goal percentage was the second-best of his career. Now he’ll face a Rockets team with the third-worst defensive efficiency among playoff teams. Paul should play minutes in the mid-30’s and not having Westbrook on the other side of the ball helps CP3 here. He’s a good mid-tier value on FanDuel. Eric Bledsoe FD - $5800 DK - $5400Opponent - ORLProj Pts FD - 33.02 DK - 33.71Markelle Fultz FD - $5500 DK - $4200Opponent - MILProj Pts FD - 27.68 DK - 27.59I’m putting these guys together because they carry similar risk in the same price tier on FanDuel. The concern for both is this game turns into an utter blowout with the Bucks -12 favorites. The game getting out of hand would mean reduced minutes for both. In the two bubble games where he ramped up to 30 minutes, Bledsoe averaged 13 points, six rebounds and six assists. One was without Giannis so it meant some extra opportunity for sure. But he’s coming cheap enough to deal with some of the risk of getting burned off the run. Meanwhile, Fultz took over the starting point guard job three games ago, supplanting DJ Augustin. He’s been good with 15 points, six assists and two steals per game. The three-point shooting is still basically nonexistent, but he does enough to contribute across the stat line to play at the these prices if you think the Magic can hang in until the fourth quarter....

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Monday 8/17/20 Playoff basketball is here! We are through the regular season in the bubble and now the series start. Let's take a look at the opening NBA slate for FanDuel and DraftKings. 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 Kyle Lowry FD - $7300 DK - $7900Opponent - BKNProj Pts FD - 42.08 DK - 43.82 The Raptors walk into the best matchup on the slate against a shorthanded and undermanned Nets’ team. Sure, Brooklyn’s been a really nice bubble story, but this isn’t in any way a strong defensive unit. If the game can stay close, Toronto is the team I trust the most with the minutes on this slate seeing as how they’ve played with shorter rotations almost all season. Lowry averaged 33 minutes per game in the bubble, and played a ton early on. He shot really poorly from three (only 32%) and yet still finished averaging 17 points, seven rebounds and six assists per game. I like him as a high floor option in a good matchup as long as the game doesn’t get out of hand. Kemba Walker FD - $6000 DK - $6900Opponent - PHIProj Pts FD - 35.87 DK - 37.59 Though he had his minutes monitored early in the bubble as he continued working his way back from injury, Walker still played well in Orlando shooting the ball very well including 43% from beyond the arc on 35 attempts. The price remains on the lower side, especially on FanDuel because he wasn’t playing enough minutes to ramp back up into the $7K range. That’s good news for a mid-tier dude who will now get a Philly team moving in the wrong direction after losing Ben Simmons for the rest of the season. Shooting Guard Josh Richardson FD - $4800 DK - $5500Opponent - BOSProj Pts FD - 29.87 DK - 30.18 Richardson’s fantasy games can really come and go, to an almost alarming degree. Sure, he had the 34 points, six assists and five rebounds in 38 minutes against the Blazers. But then there’s a line like five points, one rebound and one assist in the final game against the Rockets. It sure seems like there’s more of the...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Friday 8/13/20 Friday is the last day of the bubble regular season and what a run it's been. We've had a little of everything in these games with the Nets-Blazers going down to the wire on Thursday night. We now have a close-to-clear idea of the playoffs, though Friday won't bring the final piece of clarity. And this slate is kind of a mess with 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. Denver Nuggets at Toronto Raptors Denver is walking into a first-round matchup against the Utah Jazz and have been very cautious with starter’s minutes in these final bubble games. They are still dealing with injuries to Gary Harris and Will Barton who haven’t played a single game in Orlando. With a little break before the playoffs, I think we see some moderate minutes out of the starters and they still work to fully gel. This is a team that didn’t play significant minutes together during the regular season with Michael Porter Jr. (FD $7000 DK $7900) really putting a stamp in the bubble as a dynamic offensive player. The Nuggets don’t have anyone on the injury report (who’s been playing) meaning we could be looking at a starters’ minutes maintenance game from them. That would make them awfully tough to project with the team basically all meeting in the middle. The Raptors will get the surprise Nets in the two-seven matchup and could be really gearing up for a repeat run to the Finals. O.G. Anunoby and Serge Ibaka both rested on Wednesday and should return on Friday. The rest of the starters are a bit of a mystery. With nothing to play for we could see them do something like the Lakers on Thursday and play the main guys the first half. That’s something of the theme for this slate in that teams might choose maintenance over full rest. That makes for even dicier fantasy prospects. No injury news is coming out of Toronto so this is a wait-and-see team. Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers The Heat played hilarious minutes in their last game with only three players cresting over 20 minutes of run and then the lone Tyler Herro inexplicably playing 35. The Heat have already...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Thursday 8/13/20 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. Instead of going position by position, I think it will be more useful to take things game by game to highlight where we might find a semblance of safety during one of the crazier stretches of NBA DFS I can imagine. Let's get to it. Milwaukee Bucks at the Memphis Grizzlies For starters, if you're playing any Bucks here you're doing so because you're trying to catch some random lightning in a bottle. Giannis started and played ten minutes last game, and he's suspended for this one for headbutting Moritz Wagner. Sterling Brown led the team with 29 minutes. Maybe you have a direct line to Coach Bud and you know who is playing in this one. If so, play those guys. I'll be avoiding the Bucks like the plague. The Grizzlies, however, are extremely interesting. With their whole season on the line, you can bet that Rookie of the Year favorite Ja Morant will be out there for 40 minutes again. Dillon Brooks has been the other Grizzly that has been indispensable to their plans, playing 33 and 35 minutes in the last two games. The rest of the Grizz? They seem to come and go. You could see Jonas Valanciunas topping 30 minutes, but it hasn't been a guarantee, and could largely depend on how the Bucks treat the match-up. Anthony Tolliver has been playing minutes, but does next to nothing out there, and doesn't look like a cash game option. The Dallas Mavericks at the Phoenix Suns Tread carefully with this one, at least on the Mavericks' side. The Mavs had a chance to fade the Clippers in round one, but after their loss to the Trail Blazers that's off the table now. That officially renders this game meaningless, and what Carlisle does with this game is anybody's guess. We should have news on this before lock since the Mavs/Suns game is the first on the slate, but I can't venture a guess as to who the good Mavs are until we see the starting lineup. The Suns, however, are looking juicy. We rode them to the top of the leaderboard on Tuesday, and I expect that we'll...

FanDuel NBA Picks and DraftKings NBA Picks - Wednesday 8/12/20 As the bubble and the regular season draw to a close, we’ve entered deep and dark DFS times with how these teams are playing out the final few games. At least on Tuesday, there were three teams with legitimate things to play for. That isn’t the case on Wednesday with none of the eight teams playing for anything but seeding at the most. Instead of going position-by-position, let’s just look at each game and what some of the injury news pieces and considerations are going in. 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. Indiana Pacers at Houston Rockets With James Harden (FD $10800 DK $11100) out on Tuesday, it sure seemed like Russell Westbrook (FD $9400 DK $10400) was up for a monster game. But a blowout loss to the Spurs meant the Rockets took their foot off the gas by the fourth quarter. Harden should be back for this game, though I suppose Westbrook could sit on the second game of the back-to-back. If that were the case then Harden would probably be the cash play even at reduced minutes. The secondary pieces for the Rockets are somewhat interesting with Danuel House sitting. Jeff Green (FD $4000 DK $4400) got the start with Austin Rivers (FD $5500 DK $4800) continuing to come off the bench. Meanwhile, the Pacers are signaling that they are going to be in full punt mode for this game. TJ Warren has already been ruled out and Malcolm Brogdon and Victor Oladpio are listed questionable That strikes me as the team leaning toward just sitting everyone. If that were the case then Justin Holiday (FD $3500 DK $3600) and Aaron Holiday (FD $4000 DK $4600) would be interesting plays. If everyone sits then T.J. McConnell (FD $3600 DK $3500) might run all the guard minutes. Toronto Raptors at Philadelphia 76ers With Ben Simmons already on the shelf, and Joel Embiid dealing with an injury, the Sixers decided to punt Tuesday’s game against the Suns. They sat out Josh Richardson, Tobias Harris and Al Horford. If all three return in this game because Philly is trying to fight it out for the fifth seed, then I think all three are in play from a...