Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 5/1/16 Playoffs A quick note on today's article - you might notice (right away) that this is essentially Doug's article from last night. There's a good reason for this, since he had to write up two days worth of picks all at once. This is going to be a very similar article - in fact, I'm leaving his stuff and just adding some updates based on news that has come in since. Enjoy!   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 MLB! 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. 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.   Indiana Pacers at Toronto Raptors Analysis The Pacers took care of business on Friday night extending this series back to Toronto and forcing a game seven. For what's been a seemingly closely contested series, only one of the games has been decided by less than double digit points. That's a bit surprising considering both of these squads are so damn good on defense. In this deciding game I think you see a concentration of minutes from both teams as they each try to close this thing out. Toronto opens as a -6.5 favorite given the home court though the Pacers were able to steal game one there. I still think there is a decent amount of value in this series stemming mostly from the understanding we (I think) have from the way both coaches have run rotations up until this point. Look, this hasn't been the most exciting series to watch considering the pace of play throughout. But this game seven should live up in front of a solid crowd and the fact that it's do or die for both. Top Value Plays Paul George - FD 9500 DK 10100 Opponent - TOR FD Proj. Pts - 44.52 DK Proj. Pts - 47.25 I'm not saying he's going to play all 48 minutes, but I'm not saying he's NOT going to play all 48 minutes. Got me? While this is a bit tongue-in-cheek, I think you got a sense of how Vogel wants to do things from...

Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 3/7/16 Well, we're coming off one of the weirder days in the NBA. An historically great team lost to an historically bad team. Some absolutely huge performances led to lots of 400+ point lineups on a relatively short slate. Just weird. Since this is the NBA, today will probably be weird, too. The big narrative of the day will likely be: Will the Warriors go berserker mode on the poor Magic? Let's break down the top plays. If you want to grab a free trial of the winning projections that inform each and every one of these picks, check out our NBA Optimal Lineups, Projections, Player Cards and Google Chrome extension that auto-populates your lineups into FanDuel. 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. 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 Chris Paul - FD 10000 DK 9700 Opponent - DAL FD Proj. Pts - 46.21 DK Proj. Pts - 48.11 Paul increased on his league leading time of possession per game from 8.7 minutes in January to 9.1 in February. The trend is clear - when Blake is out of the picture, Paul is the entire facilitator of the Clippers' offense. He's got 6 straight games with a double-double, and averaged 6 rebounds during those game as well. He's filling it up right now, and looks like a very safe 50/50 play in a league average match-up with the Mavs. After watching Mudiay get 21 shots in the air against the ailing Deron Williams, it's hard to imagine what Paul can do to him on the 2nd night of a back to back after an overtime game. Rajon Rondo - FD 8600 DK 8000 Opponent - NOP FD Proj. Pts - 38.73 DK Proj. Pts - 39.44 Rondo's been averaging 13 assists a game since the All-Star break, and he's locked into 37-40 minutes a game at the moment. He manages to have the 7th highest time of possession per game in spite of sharing the court with two huge ball hogs (Boogie, Rudy Gay), which is really saying something. The Pelicans have allowed the 10th most points per game to opposing point guards, and this has all the makings of high teens assists game...

Daily Fantasy NBA Basketball Picks for FanDuel and DraftKings - 3/6/16 March madness is here! Ish. Doesn't it seem like March Madness starts later every year? Isn't March supposed to be a static month - starting around the same time as compared to the first day of the year each year? Are we going to be stuck in sports Hell for much longer, painstakingly going through the motions of basketball as a stand-alone (sorry, Durrell and the NHL crowd) until March Madness and baseball get here? Ah well. At least we can make a bunch of money playing daily fantasy sports. Might as well get to it. If you want to grab a free trial of the winning projections that inform each and every one of these picks, check out our NBA Optimal Lineups, Projections, Player Cards and Google Chrome extension that auto-populates your lineups into FanDuel. 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. 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 Holy heck, is this a mess of a day. There's so much uncertainty at basically every position today thanks to a host of factors that we'll get to piece by piece. We'll start with a point guard quagmire. Fun! Russell Westbrook - FD 10700 DK 10800 Opponent - MIL FD Proj. Pts - 48.91 DK Proj. Pts - 50.58 If you want safety for big bucks today, I'm thinking that looks like Sr. Westbrook. I won't play Curry in cash games, Harden is probably overpriced for bad match-ups (though I wouldn't be surprised to see him in some optimal lineups because of weird pricing things today), and on a short-ish slate, we're running out of options fast. Westbrook, meanwhile, is a beacon of consistency. He hasn't scored fewer than 40 fantasy points since January 22nd, and has plenty of big upside games sprinkled in along the way thanks to his permanent triple-double threatening. Milwaukee is about a league average match-up normally, but extended run against Jerryd Bayless makes this a sweeter proposition than usual. I think Westbrook is great in any format. Deron Williams - FD 5600 DK 5600 Opponent - DEN FD Proj. Pts - 27.61 DK Proj. Pts - 29.63 Emmanuel Mudiay - FD 5800 DK 5700 Opponent - DAL FD Proj. Pts...