FanDuel daily picks: Fantasy basketball lineup-December 16
High Salary PF
Blake Griffin-Los Angeles Clippers (8,900): The Clippers continue their Florida trip with a visit to Miami tonight where they’ll take on the Heat. Griffin started teh trip with 23-7-3 for 31.9 fantasy points in Orlando on Wednesday after a massive 47.4 fantasy points against the Blazers on Monday. Griffin has at least 40 fantasy points in two of his last four games and Miami’s interior defense has been suspect all season. They don’t have a lot of size to match up with Griffin tonight, so I like Blake at under 9K better than Anthony Davis at under 12K since “The Brow” is on the second night of his back-to-back.∗∗∗
Paul Millsap-Atlanta Hawks (8,300): Millsap missed the last game the Hawks battles the Raptors which turned quickly into a Toronto rout. He should be able to help keep that from happening tonight as Atlanta travels north of the border again. Millsap has played four games since returning from his hip injury which cost him that game earlier this month, and he has at least 39 fantasy points in all four of those games highlighted by a monster 23-14-6 with three blocks for 55.8 fantasy points agains the Bucks. Millsap should be able to produce a good number again tonight against a so-so Raptors PF defensive rotation. ∗∗∗∗
Jabari Parker-Milwaukee Bucks (6,300): Parker came through once again for my FanDuel daily picks last night with a huge 42.5 fantasy points. He has at least 30 fantasy points in seven of his last eight games. The cause for concern, though, is that he did post a bad burn of just 9.8 fantasy points against the Wizards in that other game during his stretch of success and that game came on the second night of a back-to-back like the one he’s playing in tonight. Chicago looked bad last night, but they could easily bounce back and blow the doors off Milwaukee tonight since the Bucks haven’t been good on back-to-backs this season. Parker sill has great upiside, but be aware of the risk as well.∗∗
Serge Ibaka-Orlando Magic (6,200): Ibaka cooled off a little bit on the second night of his back-to-back earlier this week when he had just 8-8-2 against the Clippers for 20.6 fantasy points. He had over 36 fantasy points in the two games before that, though, with 29-3-2 for 37.6 fantasy points against the Hawks and 36.8 fantasy points on 22-4-0 against the Nuggets. The Nets have been the third-worst team in the NBA this season against opposing PF, so Ibaka is in a good matchup with a good chance to get back to the 30+ fantasy points he was putting up pretty regularly before Wednesday.∗∗∗
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