Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings – 4/9/16

Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 4/9/16 Coming off a night where some of our users won big GPPs and our system's optimal lineup came damn close, you know we aren't taking late season NBA lightly. The Cole Aldrich's of the world have our undying respect. Things are really winding down now and here's to hoping we have a somewhat less manic lineup lock going into this short slate. Sure, news might drop on us with a whole team sitting. Or whatever. But there are just less teams playing so less moving parts. Thank goodness for small favors. Now’s your chance to get DFSR Pro with NBA Optimal Lineups, Projections, Player Cards and Google Chrome extension that auto-populates your lineups into FanDuel. Or try a free trial of our base package with projections for every player. 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. 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! 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 Damian Lillard - FD 8000 DK 8600 Opponent - MIN FD Proj. Pts - 38.75 DK Proj. Pts - 41.79 Ricky Rubio - FD 6500 DK 6700 Opponent - POR FD Proj. Pts - 32.6 DK Proj. Pts - 33.61 They'll be locked horns in a battle of point guards who don't play above average on-ball defense. That's almost a fantasy match made in heaven. Lillard is the safer of the two and they Blazers have been playing him big minutes because they are still jockeying for playoff position. Correct me if I'm wrong (really, please let me know) but they can pass the Grizzlies and get the Clippers in the first round instead of OKC. That's a decent amount of incentive. Meanwhile Rubio is a guy who can drive you nuts. I don't think he's safe by any means (a theme you'll see from the T-Wolves in this write up). For instance, last game he just decided to shoot 0.0 times from the field. Not an easy thing to...