Daily Fantasy NBA News and Injury Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 2/5/17

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!

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What We Know

Kyle Lowry is active, DeMar DeRozan and Patrick Patterson are out today against the Nets.
Kyle Lowry has been dealing with illness but will go today against Brooklyn. DeRozan will miss another game, and Patterson will sit out after suffering a knee contusion against Orlando Friday night. Lowry playing hurts the value of Cory Joseph, but Norman Powell, Jared Sullinger, and Lucas Nogueira are all in consideration today against the Nets.

What We're Waiting to Know

Avery Bradley is a GTD against the Clippers
Bradleys achilles has kept him out of 13 of the last 14 games, and is currently questionable against the Clippers. Marcus Smart and Jaylen Brown continue to see a bump in usage if he misses yet again.

The "Every Lineup" Guys

Russell Westbrook
If you want to pay up on this Super short slate there's really only one option. Russ is the only player over 10K on Draftkings, over at Fanduel it's him and Isaiah Thomas and Thomas isn't even in the conversation. Westy is the most explosive player going and the match up with Portland just adds to his upside. Depending what happens with Toronto there could be enough value to pay up without blinking, but even if DeMar and Lowry (who I would play over IT if I knew he was healthy) are good to go, you still need to work RW in to your lineups. He'll be in all of mine.
Blake Griffin
Four games back from injury and it seems that Blake Griffin is back to his old self. He just completed a back to back against the Suns and Warriors, and ran the boards for an average of 32 minutes in each. In both games he paid over 5X value. Today he goes in to Boston to take on the Celtics, and while they could slow up the Clippers game, defensively they're right on par with Golden State and Phoenix. While both of these guys should be chalk across the industry on the short slate, you can get away with fading Blake in your tournament lineups if you want some separation, the upside really isn't much, whereas Russ has to be there if you want any chance to cash out. Both of these guys should be in your cash lineups though.