The NBA closes out the first work week of March with 20 teams in action tonight giving us plenty of options for today’s FanDuel daily picks designed to help you find the best DFS fantasy basketball options.
There were plenty of stars in last night’s NBA action as the Warriors continued to dominate the Thunder, the Spurs kept pace with Golden State as the clear #2 in the West, and Boogie and the Kings took down Dallas. The schedule tonight for DFS fantasy basketball has a ton of options with ten games on tap, but there is actually no player priced over 10K on FanDuel. It’s a night full of balanced options and intriguing games, so check out my FanDuel daily picks as you get your lineup set for tonight’s 20-team slate.
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Three games start the night at 7:00 PM ET which is when rosters will lock on FanDuel. Miami finishes their back-to-back with a trip to Philly, Phoenix finishes their two-game Florida trip in Orlando, and the Hornets host the Pacers in matchup of the sixth and seventh seeds in the Eastern Conference. At 7:30, two more games tip off as the Celtics host Carmelo and the Knicks while Kyle Lowry and Damian Lillard lead their teams in a clash in “The North.” At 8:00, three more games join the action including a nice matchup between the Cavs and Wizards who could be first round opponents. At the same time ESPN has that game, the Bucks take on the T-Wolves and the Grizzlies host the Jazz. In the last two games of the night, the Nets visit the Nuggets at 9:00, and we wrap up the evening with the Lakers and Hawks from STAPLES Center at 10:30.
With those 20 teams in action tonight, there are definitely some matchups you want to attack and matchups you want to avoid. To see the players I think are the best options for tonight, check out my FanDuel 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 a win for your team tonight. To help you realize that goal, you’ll find two slides per position in this post–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 customized 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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It’s time to jump right in to tonight’s FanDuel daily picks starting with the pricey point guards who are primed to produce tonight.
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