DraftKings daily picks: Fantasy basketball lineup-January 12
The NBA has a great eight-game slate this Tuesday, so get your fantasy basketball team ready to roll with the help of my DraftKings daily picks.
The NBA is really to roll with an early-heavy eight-game schedule tonight featuring some good divisional matchups, a possible sighting of “The Brow” in Los Angeles, and an NBATV double-header. With 16 teams in action, there are lots of different ways you can build your lineup. Check out my favorite picks for today on the following slides in my FanDuel daily picks.
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Things get started tonight at 7:00 PM ET with a inter-conference matchup of the Pacers and Suns at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indy. At 7:30, the Knicks and Celtics meet at Madison Square Garden while the Spurs finish their road back-to-back with a stop in Detroit. At 8:00, a trifecta of games get started including the Bulls and Bucks on NBATV along with the T-Wolves hosting OKC and the Grizzlies welcoming the Rockets to Memphis. At 8:30, the Mavs and Cavs meet in big D, and the night closes out with the one West Coast matchup as the Pelicans complete their LA trip with a matchup against the Lakers.
From those 16 teams, there are some stars and sleepers that I think are good options that can come through for your team tonight. I’ve assembled my favorite plays of the day on the following slides in my DraftKings daily picks. For each position, there is a slide for high-salary options and a slide for high-value options, and on each slide you’ll find at least two players with a few extras thrown in where possible. I base my picks on the current form of each player and the positional matchups each player will face in tonight’s game.
Since the start of 2016, I also have started to rank my picks using stars after each selection. For a full explanation of the rating system, check out the last slide of this post, but in short the more stars that are after a player the more confidence I have in the pick. On the final slide of the post, you can see my recent results at each level of confidence. Also on the final slide of the post, you can see how I’m putting together the best of my picks into my lineups for tonight’s contests.
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Let’s get started with my DraftKings daily picks for this Tuesday starting with some high-priced point guard options for this Tuesday.
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