DraftKings daily picks: Fantasy basketball lineup-February 21
As you build your DFS fantasy basketball team for this Sunday, February 21, check out my DraftKings daily picks to help you find the best stars and sleepers.
The NBA has a busy Sunday to wrap up its weekend of games after the long All Star break with ten games on tap for today. There are several different windows of DFS fantasy basketball competitions on DraftKings today. You can go with an all-day competition that includes all ten games, but I’ll be focusing on the “Main” competition which includes the six games starting at 6:00 PM ET or later tonight. Those six games have some solid DFS fantasy basketball options, so check out my DraftKings daily picks to help you build your lineup for tonight’s contests.
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Three of tonight’s six games tip off right at 6:00 PM ET. In those three contests, Orlando welcomes in the Pacers, the Raptors host Memphis and the Hornets visit Brooklyn to take on the Nets. At 7:00 and 8:00 two of the worst teams in the NBA are in action as the Mavericks take on the hapless 76ers at 7:00 and the Lakers stumble into Chicago to take on the Bulls at 8:00. To close out the night, we have a nice Western Conference matchup of teams fighting for playoff position as the #7 Blazers host the #9 Jazz.
With those 12 teams taking the floor, there are some nice matchups to attack as you build your team for tonight. To make sure you know the options to consider, check out my DraftKings daily picks on the following slides. You’ll find two slides per position–one for high-salary options and one for high-value options. Each slide contains at least two selections with extras thrown in where possible (which is all over the place today). I base each pick on the current form of each player and the positional matchups each player will face in tonight’s game.
At the beginning of 2016, I 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, more stars means more confidence (on a point-per-dollar basis). 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 lineup for tonight’s competition.
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As we wrap up the weekend, let’s dive in to my DraftKings daily picks for this Sunday.
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