DraftKings daily picks: Fantasy basketball lineup-February 25
Check out my DraftKings daily picks for the six NBA games on tap on this Thursday, February 25.
Although Thursday’s are typically a slower day in the NBA, there is a solid slate of six matchups tonight many of which are rematches of games that happened just before the break. The slate is loaded with stars as Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Steph Curry, Anthony Davis, and Damian Lillard are just some of the top players taking the floor tonight. As you blend those stars with some value sleepers you’ll need to balance their salaries, check out my DraftKings daily picks for my favorite plays of the night.
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The schedule gets underway with one of the two inter-conference games at 7:00 PM ET as the Warriors complete their Florida Swing with a stop in Orlando. The Celtics and Bucks tip off at 7:30 in a rematch of a game that happened just before the All Star break which is the same story for the first game of the TNT double-header which features the Pelicans visiting the Thunder. At 9:00, there is some fantasy value to steal from a matchup of two bad teams as the 15-42 Nets face the 14-43 Suns in Phoenix. We close out the evening with a pair of nice Western Conference games with the Blazers hosting the Rockets in a matchup of teams fighting for the playoffs while the Spurs complete their back-to-back with a trip to Utah to take on the surging Jazz who are also now in the playoff hunt.
With those dozen teams taking the floor, there are some big names to choose from as well as some value bargains you can’t miss. To find the options I think are the best plays for tonight, check out my DraftKings daily picks on the following slides. My goal is to give you the information you need to build your own lineup that can bring home the cash tonight. 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 to show the strength of the pick. 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. I suggest you build your own team with the players you like the most, but you’re welcome to see my lineups and use them as a place to get started.
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With those preliminaries in place, let’s get rolling with my DraftKings daily picks for this Thursday.
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