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Daily Fantasy Basketball: FanDuel Lineups For April 26

By Dave Fuqua

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FanDuel lineups for April 26

Well we had a real good night on Friday, April 24th, but it looks like Kyle Korver’s off night for the Saturday games will keep us off of the top finishers for that slate of games. Lets see if we can get the FanDuel lineups for April 26 off to a much better start.

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I am going to roll with a bit of a different strategy for these games and try to roll one stud and one cheap play for each position and see how it shapes out.

We will start out at the PG position and roll with Kyle Lowry and a very cheap J.J.Barea. Barea is coming off of a solid performance and has somewhat become the de facto point guard for the Mavericks. With Rajon Rondo and Ray Felton hurt and Devin Harris still ailing it has been giving Barea plenty of run and lest game he knocked down 31.7 fantasy points. Lowry is back and looking pretty good. He has looked a bit better every game and is getting his minutes back up around 38 and that should bode well for his numbers.

At SG we will roll with James Harden and Monta Ellis. I kind of strayed from my rolling with a cheap guy strategy here but both player have been too hot to avoid using and hoping to take some money home. Ellis was off the chain on the 24th with 54.9 fantasy points and of course Harden is still Harden. He also has a beard and I think that accounts for like 10 fantasy points alone. Regardless of his facial hair, he is a guy you want in his lineup. It does however, bring up an interesting question: Would James Harden be the same player if he shaved his beard? Maybe we can ponder that later.

For the SF spots we will roll Kawhi Leonard and Al-Farouq Aminu who continues to make the most of his extra minutes. Leonard racked up an amazing 47.3 fantasy points Friday and looked like the offensive and defensive player of the year as he scored 32 points. Aminu was on point for the Mavericks and is a nice bargain at $4,600.

We are going to kick it old school for the PF positions and roll with Tim Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki. Both of these old guys are playing like they did five years ago and racking up fantasy points and at a nice bargain. Nowitzki is riding a nice hot streak and on top of that is coming off of a 50.6 fantasy points game. Duncan had a bit of a bad game and still recorded over 25 fantasy points. I expect him to bounce back nicely.

Our man in the middle is a bit of a crap shoot and could be the reason we win or the reason we lose. Of course that is the way this game is built and you are not going to do extremely well if you don’t take some risks and put it all out there. If Mozgov shows up like he did on the 21st in game two with over 30 fantasy points then we stand to do well, but if he throws up a ten point dud like he did in game three then we will likely finish outside of the money.

Good luck to you FanDuelers and thanks for dropping by!

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