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DraftKings daily picks: Fantasy basketball lineup-May 16 & 17

By Zachary Thompson

Feb 6, 2016; Oakland, CA, USA; Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) shoots the ball in front of Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0) in the fourth quarter at Oracle Arena. The Warriors won 116-108. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 6, 2016; Oakland, CA, USA; Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) shoots the ball in front of Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0) in the fourth quarter at Oracle Arena. The Warriors won 116-108. Mandatory Credit: Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY Sports /
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DraftKings has another two-day competition starting tonight, so get your DFS fantasy basketball lineup ready to roll with my DraftKings daily picks for this Monday/Tuesday.

Mar 3, 2016; Oakland, CA, USA; Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) passes the ball against Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) during the first quarter at Oracle Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 3, 2016; Oakland, CA, USA; Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) passes the ball against Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) during the first quarter at Oracle Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports /

The NBA Playoffs are down to the final four teams and the Conference Finals both get underway in the next two days with Game 1 in the Western Conference tonight followed by the Eastern Conference getting under way tomorrow.  DraftKings has combined the two Game 1’s into a Monday/Tuesday fantasy basketball competition which gives us a solid (if shallow) slate for DFS fantasy basketball.  To see who I think you should get in your lineup, check out my DraftKings daily picks on the following slides.

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The first game of the Conference Finals tips at 9:00 PM ET tonight when the Thunder open up their series at ORACLE Arena against the Warriors.  Golden State has had nearly a week off to prepare and recover while the Thunder are coming in off a huge win over the Spurs in Round 2. Tomorrow, the Cavs are in action after an even longer layoff than the Warriors as they take on the Raptors in the Eastern Conference Finals.  Cleveland swept through the first two rounds going 8-0 while Toronto has had to battle to a pair of Game 7’s and enter the first Conference Finals in franchise history with an 8-6 record this postseason.

Those two Conference Finals games give us a solid group of players to pick from in the Monday/Tuesday contests. My goal in this daily post throughout the season has been to give you the information you need to build your own lineup that can bring home a win for your team. 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 today’s game.

I rank my picks every morning 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). 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 today’s competition. I suggest you build your own customized team with the players you like the most, but you’re welcome to check out my lineups and use them as a place to get started.

In my DraftKings daily picks, 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 the 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. I’ll also let you know on Twitter if there are any changes to my lineup for tonight especially with the Andrew Bogut situation in question in the middle for the Warriors.

If you find my picks and analysis helpful and would like to check out my DFS fantasy basketball posts each morning that there is a new contest, the easiest way to find the FanDuel 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.

Let’s start the week right with a pair of interesting games and a win with these DraftKings daily picks.

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