FanDuel daily picks: Fantasy basketball lineup-February 23
The NBA has five games on tap for tonight giving us a solid slate of options for DFS fantasy basketball, so get your lineup started with my FanDuel daily picks for Tuesday.
This Tuesday night the NBA has five games on the schedule all of which look they could turn into high-scoring affairs. The Over/Under for each of the games is over 200 with all but one expected to result in 209 points or more. With so many points flying look for plenty of fantasy basketball production tonight in what should be offense-first games. My FanDuel daily picks on the following slides can help you find the best plays of the night as you put together your team for tonight.
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The first two games of the night start at 7:00 PM ET which is when FanDuel rosters will lock for the night. The 76ers and Magic meet in Philadelphia while Anthony Davis leads the Pelicans into DC to face John Wall and the Wizards in the first game of NBATV’s double-header. The second wave of games starts at 9:00 when the Nuggets host the Kings and the Rockets visit the Jazz in Salt Lake City. The night closes out on the West Coast in Portland where Damian Lillard and company take on the Nets as the Blazers try to hang in the Western Conference playoff race.
There’s definitely plenty of star power tonight whether you like guards like Lillard, Wall, or Harden or prefer to go with high-scoring big men like DeMarcus Cousins or Anthony Davis. If you do stock your lineup with stars, you’ll need the right sleepers, so check out my FanDuel daily picks on the following slides where you’ll find my favorite plays for this evening. In this post, 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. 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.
In this post, all salary references and references to “fantasy points” refer to FanDuel pricing and scoring. If you are looking for similar coverage specifically for DraftKings, check the box above for related posts or find the latest on our fantasy basketball hub.
If you have any questions about my picks for today or any of our Fansided fantasy coverage, you can leave them at the bottom of the page in the comments section. For an even quicker response, you can find me throughout the day on Twitter @FansidedFantasy. It’s also a good idea to check back to this post and on Twitter before the games get going tonight to see if injury or availability issues have shifted any of my lineups. Most of the big names come into tonight injury free, but with points-a-plenty tonight you’ll need to avoid the killer-zero.
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Let’s jump into tonight’s FanDuel daily picks starting with the best of the high-priced Point Guards.
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