While many basketball fans will be glued to the NCAA Tournament playing all night long, there is still a five-game NBA slate filled with the players those in March Madness dream of becoming one day. Warriors point guard Stephen Curry’s rise to becoming a household name started in the 2008 NCAA Tournament when he led 10-seed Davidson to the Elite Eight. Curry has built a future NBA Hall of Fame career from there, and with the Warriors in action against Scottie Barnes and the Raptors on Thursday, should daily Fantasy basketball players include Curry, Jimmy Butler or any other Warriors in NBA DFS lineups?
Curry is averaging 24.3 points and 6.1 assists at 37 years old as he’s still an elite offensive player. Knicks wing Mikal Bridges has fond NCAA Tournament memories with his former college and now pro teammates, Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson, with the latter still out with an ankle injury. Bridges has become an offensive focal point with Brunson out, so how should he factor into your NBA DFS strategy as the Knicks face LaMelo Ball, Miles Bridges and Charlotte? Before making any NBA DFS picks, be sure to check out the NBA DFS advice, player rankings, stacks, and top daily Fantasy basketball picks from SportsLine’s Mike McClure.
McClure is a DFS professional with more than $2 million in career winnings. He’s also a predictive data engineer at SportsLine who uses a powerful prediction model that simulates every minute of every game 10,000 times, taking factors like matchups, statistical trends and injuries into account. This allows him to find the best NBA DFS values on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel and create optimal lineups that he shares only over at SportsLine. They’re a must-see for any NBA DFS player.
On Tuesday (when McClure last made NBA DFS picks), McClure highlighted Hawks point guard Trae Young as one of his top NBA DFS picks from the NBA DFS player pool on both sites. The result: Young had 31 points, two rebounds, eight assists and three steals, returning 52 points on DraftKings and 50.4 points on FanDuel. Anybody who included…
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