NBA DFS Picks, Projections, Lineups, Injuries & More Today: Friday Playbook

It's Friday, November 14th, and we have an 8-game NBA DFS main slate on DraftKings and a 9-gamer on FanDuel.

It's Emirates NBA Cup Friday as teams need to start picking up wins in order to advance out of their group stage. We have stars everywhere we look as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Cade Cunningham, Karl-Anthony Towns, and Franz Wagner. We have major injury news coming down the wire, big point totals and great basketball on the horizon. Let's dive into the main slate.

Before actually diving into the meat and potatoes, welcome to the NBA DFS season. If this is your first time reading our column on NBA DFS picks, I just want to welcome you and give you a few tips and tricks on what you should be looking for each night.

• News outlets: reliable sources that give us injury news & starting lineups
• Pace of play: who's playing fast vs. who's playing slow. Which teams get a pace-up spot (more possessions) vs. pace-down (fewer possessions)
• Usage rates: is a percentage of how many plays that player is being used in
• NBA DFS Projections
• Lineup Generator
• NBA Ownership

NBA DFS Picks & Daily Fantasy Playbook Today, November 14th

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Pre/Post-Lock Update Section

This section will be used for anything that changes from the morning until right up to roster lock. 

Injury updates, players we’re higher on than we were in the morning and so much more.

All status updates after contest roster lock will be made in the Fantasy Alarm Discord: https://discord.gg/2yATJxXe8G

• Update - 6:30 pm ET
• Cade Cunningham & Jalen Duren are OUT. Isaiah Stewart is IN.
• Daniss Jenkins played 40 minutes and had a 23% USG and 20 potential assists last game.
• Isaiah Stewart has averaged 1.1 FP/min since last year (270 minutes) without Cunningham, Ivey, Duren, Harris, Thompson on the floor.
• Update - 6:52 pm ET
• With Anthony Davis & P.J. Washington OUT, Brandon Williams and Cooper Flagg are GREAT GPP plays.
• Flagg - 26.4% USG (+4.2%) & 1.2 FP/min // Williams - 26.4% USG, 1.06 FP/min

NBA Injuries, News & Updates Today, 11/14

• Giannis Antetokounmpo - IN
• Cade Cunningham - OUT
• LaMelo Ball - PROB
• Anthony Davis - OUT
• LeBron James - OUT
• Paolo Banchero - OUT
• Kawhi Leonard - OUT
• Jalen Brunson - OUT
• Domantas Sabonis - IN
• Jalen Duren - OUT
• Bam Adebayo - OUT
• Joel Embiid - OUT
• Paul George - OUT
• P.J. Washington - OUT
• Jonathan Kuminga - OUT
• VJ Edgecombe - IN
• Ausar Thompson - OUT
• Scoot Henderson - OUT
• Isaiah Stewart - IN
• Malik Monk - IN
• Dereck Lively - IN
• Ryan Kalkbrenner - OUT
• Day'Ron Sharpe - IN

NBA DFS Slate & Game Overviews

In the section below, I’m listing the most notable things we need to look at in Las Vegas, including notable O/U and spreads. Not every game is listed, but every game listed has the pace and defensive numbers listed.

NBA DFS Core Player Pool & Lineup Picks

Here are the core players I’m looking at for my NBA DFS picks tonight. You can see the full analysis of tonight’s NBA DFS projections and player pool below or skip ahead to building the best lineups possible by locking these into the aforementioned lineup generator now.

High

• Luka Doncic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Cade Cunningham, Karl-Anthony Towns, Victor Wembanyama (FD)

Mid

• Anthony Edwards, Franz Wagner, Ivica Zubac, Desmond Bane, Wendell Carter, Daniss Jenkins, Cooper Flagg

Value

• Brandon Williams, Jalen Suggs, Derik Queen, Saddiq Bey, Reed Sheppard, Moussa Diabate, Miles McBride, Isaiah Stewart

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