DraftKings NBA Picks May 2

We have two more conference semifinals for our DraftKings tournament tonight with Game 2 between the Celtics and Wizards, and the Western Conference Champion Warriors in Game 1 against the Jazz. Who are the best picks?

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Yesterday the money line was at 250.5 DraftKings points, which was down a little bit. The blowout nature of the Rockets game kept the value of Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili down. The DeMarre Carroll dart throw was also a disaster.

The winning lineup was down a hair to 321.75 tonight. The big games from Kyrie Irving, LeBron James, and James Harden led the way while he got a ton of value as Trevor Ariza burned the Spurs from outside and Clint Capela wrecked them underneath.

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PG: Isaiah Thomas ($8,900): Thomas matched John Wall‘s output at $1,400 less! It is vital to find value in these small playoff slates. Overall, Wall is the threat to put up more points, but Thomas is throwing everything he has into his team and his teammates to cope with the grief. It’s not the wrong thing to do. You can see he is playing for much more than himself right now. Boston was going to be a tough out anyway. Now, they may be even tougher, and Thomas is a big reason why.

SG: Avery Bradley ($6,400): Bradley continued his stellar play against the Wizards in Game 1. He is a guaranteed 35-38 DraftKings points against the Wizards, which makes him well worth the price tag here. Not everyone is.

G: Terry Rozier ($2,800): This coaching staff trusts Rozier to run the second team now, where they didn’t earlier in the season. He has three straight games of more than 3x value. If Game 2 is played at the pace of Game 1, that favors us using Rozier again. He provides much needed salary relief and good value for his cost.

SF: Joe Ingles ($4,500): The Warriors locked down both Rodney Hood and Gordon Hayward in the regular season meetings, but both Hood and Hayward missed at least two of those games. Ingles was a really good bench player in the Clippers series. He doesn’t quite have the upside that Joe Johnson does, but his game matches up with the Warriors better. I think Ingles get a bit of an expanded role in this series.

PF: Otto Porter ($5,800): It’s a case of he says they say in regards to Markieff Morris. The Wizards are pretty convinced that he will not play, or that he will be very limited in Game 2. Morris says he is playing. Porter game up big in Game 1 with Morris only playing ten minutes before rolling his ankle. At any rate, I doubt Morris’s ankle is anywhere near 100%. I expect to see another healthy dose of Otto tonight.

F: Jae Crowder ($6,000): Much like Avery Bradley, Crowder picked up where he left off against the Wizards in the regular season. He even went a little over that with 38 DraftKings points in the first game. Don’t expect another explosion like that from Crowder – he hit a career high six threes in Game 1 – but he should still be able to hit 5x value without an issue.

C: Al Horford ($7,800): The Bulls couldn’t contain Horford up front in the final three games of that series. Washington couldn’t in Game 1 either. Horford finished a rebound shy of a triple-double, notching a career high ten assists. He is playing at his highest level of the season right now. The Celtics are rallying around Thomas, and are all playing at a high level because of it. How long will this carry on?

UTIL: Rudy Gobert ($7,300): Draymond Green had his hands full with Gordon Hayward during the regular season, so Gobert was largely left to wreak his own brand of havoc under the basket. Zaza Pachulia and JaVale McGee can get in the way, but they can’t really force Gobert away from his strengths. He should be somewhere near his season average of 42.7 DraftKings points against the Warriors.

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