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DraftKings daily picks: Fantasy basketball lineup-April 2

By Zachary Thompson

Dec 18, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Bulls forward Nikola Mirotic (44) and Detroit Pistons forward Marcus Morris (13) go for the ball during the first half at the United Center. Mandatory Credit: David Banks-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 18, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Bulls forward Nikola Mirotic (44) and Detroit Pistons forward Marcus Morris (13) go for the ball during the first half at the United Center. Mandatory Credit: David Banks-USA TODAY Sports /
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On a big basketball night, the NBA has five games for DFS Fantasy basketball, and you can find the top options in my DraftKings daily picks.

Dec 18, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Bulls forward Nikola Mirotic (44) and Detroit Pistons forward Marcus Morris (13) go for the ball during the first half at the United Center. Mandatory Credit: David Banks-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 18, 2015; Chicago, IL, USA; Chicago Bulls forward Nikola Mirotic (44) and Detroit Pistons forward Marcus Morris (13) go for the ball during the first half at the United Center. Mandatory Credit: David Banks-USA TODAY Sports /

The two biggest basketball games of the night take place in Houston at the Final Four, but there are also five games on the NBA schedule giving us a solid pool of options for DFS Fantasy basketball.  Playoff races are starting to heat up and three teams in the hunt for the final two spots in the Eastern Conference have big games tonight. As we head in the last couple weeks of the NBA season, there are lots of factors to consider for your DFS fantasy basketball team, so check out my DraftKings daily picks on the following slides as you start to build your team for tonight.

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The first game of the night tips at 7:30 PM ET when the 76ers host the Pacers before the Bulls and Pistons meet at 8:00 PM ET. There are definitely playoff implications for all those teams but Philadelphia since they currently sit seventh, eighth, and ninth in the playoff race in the Eastern Conference with just 1.5 games separating Detroit (currently #7) from Chicago (currently #9). As we move to the west, the Spurs will try to keep their perfect home record intact (like the Warriors failed to do last night) as they take on the Raptors at 8:30 followed by the Nuggets hosting the Kings at 9:00.  In the last game of the night, the Heat complete their West Coast back-to-back traveling from Sacramento to Portland where they’ll face the Blazers as both teams jockey for playoff positioning in their respective conferences.

With those ten teams providing some interesting options to pick from, there are plenty of players sort through for tonight.   To see the options that I think can help you to a big fantasy night, 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 a win for your team tonight. In order to help you find the position and price-point that you need, you’ll find two slides per position in this post–one with high-salary options and one with high-value options. Each slide contains at least two options 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.

In this post, all salary references and references to “fantasy points” refer to DraftKings pricing and scoring.  If you are looking for similar coverage specifically for FanDuel, check the box above for related posts or find the latest on our new-look 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. As always, injuries and availability will greatly impact players’ values tonight, so I’ll keep you up to date on any news that should shake up your lineup on Twitter as well.  I’ll also let you know if I have to update my lineups for tonight like I did last night with Brandon Knight, Dwyane Wade, and Thaddeus Young all ending up as inactives.

If you find my picks and analysis helpful and would like to check out my DFS fantasy basketball posts each morning, the easiest way to find the DraftKings daily picks is to drop a bookmark on our fantasy basketball hub or follow on Twitter where I’ll tweet out the links each day when my picks go live.

With those preliminary thoughts out of the way, let’s tip off my DraftKigns daily picks for this Saturday by looking at some PG worth considering.

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