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DraftKings European League Basketball Picks December 22

ByMike Marteny|
LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 12: Rudy Fernandez of Real Madrid tussles with Kyle Hines of Olympiacos Piraeus during the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four final between Olympiacos Piraeus and Real Madrid at the O2 Arena on May 12, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 12: Rudy Fernandez of Real Madrid tussles with Kyle Hines of Olympiacos Piraeus during the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four final between Olympiacos Piraeus and Real Madrid at the O2 Arena on May 12, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 12: Players of Olympiacos Piraeus celebrate vigtory during the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four final between Olympiacos Piraeus and Real Madrid at the O2 Arena on May 12, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 17: Lou Amundson #21 of the New York Knicks celebrates his game tying basket with Alexey Shved #1 forcing the game into overtime against the San Antonio Spurs during their game at Madison Square Garden on March 17, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

Guards:

Alexey Shved has the worst matchup imaginable in the battle for Moscow in the early game. CSKA is the best in the league against guards. I prefer avoiding this game for most DFS purposes, but there is an exception or two.

Nando de Colo ($12,300): One of those exceptions is Nando. Khimki is 11th in the league against guards. I still expect Shved to have a pretty good game, but we should be able to get the same or slightly better production out of de Colo for $2,500 less. That is money that will come in handy later.

Nemanja Nedovic ($9,900): Usually I like to try to stack the late game, but I can’t find enough Milan players that I really trust. They have a superb matchup, but Nedovic is the best player in this entire game. Milan is better with Goudelock back, but Nedovic is playing out of his mind lately. This should be his third straight 30+ DraftKings point effort.

Vassilis Spanoulis ($8,800): This is the game I prefer to attack. Usually when Efes is involved, defense is not. At least not from their end. Spanoulis took a couple of games to get warmed up, but he had a really good game against CSKA Moscow in his last time out. As you may remember from earlier in the page, they are the best defensive team in the league against guards. I really like this matchup for Spanoulis, and he wont be this cheap for very long.

There are several value options that I have my eye on at guard today. If you play de Colo, you will need at least one of Curtis Jerrells, Ray McCallum, or Janis Strelnieks. They are all about the same price, and all have good matchups. I prefer the Milan-Unicaja game, but Jerrells is very inconsistent. I would likely go with McCallum.

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Forwards:

Kyle Hines ($9,400): CSKA is great against guards and average up front. I plan on attacking that average with Hines. Hines has not been under 20 DraftKings points since round six, and has been over 30 four times since then. Hines is a little more consistent than Clybourn, though Clybourn does have more upside.

Kostas Papanikolaou ($7,800): Efes is the worst team in the league up front. The sprained foot of Georgios Printezis opens up a ton of value up front for Olympiacos. First off is Papanikolaou. He has averaged 28 DraftKings points per game over the last four rounds anyway, and he put up 31.5 with Printezis out on Wednesday.

Adam Hanga ($7,600): You can fit several players in at this price, but I don’t particularly like the Moscow battle for fantasy purposes as I noted before. Anthony Gill is in play, and so is Rodrigue Beaubois if you are willing to look past the poor matchups. I prefer Hanga, who has a better matchup against Baskonia. Hanga has three straight games of more than 22 DraftKings points. This should be the fourth.

Jamel McLean ($5,900): McLean went nuts on Wednesday with Printezis out. He put up an astounding 44 DraftKings points in just 24 minutes! He should rip apart Efes on the inside as well. I am expecting at least 3/4 ownership, but you can’t afford to fade McLean. And the good part is that if he fails, he fails us all.

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