DraftKings EuroLeague Basketball Picks October 4

By Mike Marteny | Oct 4, 2019

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 26: Will Clyburn, #21 and Mike James, #5 poses during the CSKA Moscow - 2019/2020 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Media Day at USH CSKA on September 26, 2019 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Mikhail Serbin/Euroleague Basketball via Getty Images) /

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ATHENS, GREECE – MAY 06: A general view during the EuroLeague Final match between Panathinaikos and CSKA Moscow at the Oaka Arena on May 6, 2007 in Athens, Greece. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images /

DraftKings EuroLeague Basketball Picks October 4

Friday is the heavier of this week’s DraftKings EuroLeague slates with five games. Now with 18 teams in the league, we will have one day that’s heavier than the other. Hey, the more the merrier! Nothing wrong with having a few extra players in the DraftKings EuroLeague pool, and it definitely doesn’t diminish the quality of play.

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The new additions are Berlin, Villeurbanne, and St. Peterburg. Gran Canaria didn’t make it back into the EuroLeague this year. Neither did Podgorica or Darussafaka. They were replaced by Belgrade and Valencia. The other 13 teams are the same as last year: Efes Istanbul, Fenerbahce Istanbul, Milan, CSKA Moscow, Khimki Moscow, Barcelona, Munich, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Tel Aviv, Olympiacos, Athens, Real Madrid, and Zalgiris.

The injury news is really important to follow in the EuroLeague because we don’t always get advanced word stateside. Here’s the report so far:

Out: Peyton Siva, G, Berlin; Kevin Pangos, G, Barcelona; Stefan Peno, G, Berlin; Jayson Granger, G, Baskonia; Johannes Thiemann, F, Berlin; Anton Pushkov, F, St. Petersburg; Aleksej Pokusevski, G, Olympiacos; Kosta Koufos, F, CSKA Moscow;

Questionable: Vassilis Spanoulis, G, Olympiakos; Nik Stauskas, G, Baskonia; Makai Mason, G, Berlin; Shane Larkin, G, Efes; Dmitry Khvosov, G, St. Petersburg; Rodrigue Beaubois, G, Efes; James Anderson, F, Efes;

This is a much shorter injury report than yesterday’s slate, which also means less value. Berlin is without the most players, so that’s where the key value picks should lie.

The rotations can be frustrating sometimes as more players see the court than in your average NBA game. The games themselves are also shorter, playing four ten minute quarters as opposed to 12 minutes in the NBA. The court is smaller, the lane is bigger, and the three point line is closer, but the action is still what you would expect from world class basketball!

For DraftKings EuroLeague, we can’t expect 5x value like in the NBA. Most winning lineups are around 180-200 DraftKings points, which is around 3.5 – 4x value.