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

It's Friday, November 28th, and we have a 6-game NBA DFS main slate on DraftKings and 11 games on FanDuel.

It's Black Friday and I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving day and night. The DraftKings main slate is all Eastern Conference NBA Cup games and the FanDuel slate includes the Western Conference NBA Cup games. There is still a bunch to sort in NBA Cup land and in both conferences there are still a bunch of scenarios for teams to make it to the next round. We have Cade Cunningham, Donovan Mitchell, Nikola Jokic, and Luka Doncic taking the floor tonight.

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 28th

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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 - 2:50 pm ET
• Isaiah Hartenstein is OUT
• Without Wiggins & iHart, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a 35.6% USG &1.74 FP/min. Chet Holmgren has a 22.1% USG & 1.2 FP/min. all of these numbers were accrued without Jalen Williams, who's returning on Friday. Williams will be limited.
• Adding Peyton Watson to player pool (FanDuel)
• UPDATE - 5:55 pm ET
• Kristaps Porzingis is OUT
• Jalen Johnson; 28% USG, 1.52 FP/min - Onyeka Okongwu; 22.3% USG, 1.15 FP/min - Dyson Daniels; 17% USG, 1.02 FP/min - Nickeil Alexander-Walker; 25.5% USG, 1.03 FP/min
• Andrew Nembhard is OUT
• Bennedict Mathurin (37 mins w/o Nemby, Toppin, Nesmith): 36.8% USG, 1.38 FP/min - T.J. McConnell (84 mins): 23.9% USG, 1.3 FP/min - Pascal Siakam (138 mins): 29.2% USG, 1.22 FP/min, Jay Huff (125 mins): 1.06 FP/min - Isaiah Jackson (61 mins): 1.24 FP/min
• Nets that I'm interested in that aren't listed in playbook: Drake Powell (chance he starts), Tyrese Martin (chance he starts, solid USG/FP/min guy), Nic Claxton

NBA Injuries, News & Updates Today, 11/28

• Giannis Antetokounmpo - QUEST
• Victor Wembanyama - OUT
• Anthony Davis - IN
• Jalen Williams - IN
• Michael Porter - OUT
• Trae Young - OUT
• Paolo Banchero - OUT
• Joel Embiid - OUT
• Nikola Vucevic - QUEST
• Coby White - PROB
• Andrew Nembhard - OUT
• Kyshawn George - QUEST
• VJ Edgecombe - OUT
• Paul George - QUEST
• Aaron Gordon - OUT
• Deandre Ayton - IN
• Grayson Allen - DOUBT (upgraded)
• Jarrett Allen - PROB
• Dennis Schroder - QUEST
• Jaden Ivey - IN
• Kevin Huerter - QUEST
• Kelly Oubre - OUT
• Aaron Nesmith - OUT
• Aaron Wiggins - OUT
• Dereck Lively - OUT
• Ryan Dunn - OUT
• Trendon Watford - OUT
• Marcus Smart - DOUBT
• Sam Merrill - OUT
• Bogdan Bogdanovic - OUT
• Corey Kispert - OUT
• Patrick Williams - QUEST
• Kristaps Porzingis - OUT
• Isaiah Hartenstein - OUT

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

• Nikola Jokic (FD), Luka Doncic (FD), Cade Cunningham, Jalen Johnson, Josh Giddey, Giannis Antetokounmpo

Mid

• Alex Sarr, Keyonte George (FD), Chet Holmgren (FD), Jaren Jackson (FD GPP), Ivica Zubac (FD), Coby White, Bennedict Mathurin, Kyshawn George, Keegan Murray (FD), Pascal Siakam, Onyeka Okongwu

Value

• Peyton Watson (FD), Noah Clowney, Ace Bailey (FD), T.J. McConnell, Jarace Walker, Jay Huff, Jaylen Wells (FD), Egor Demin

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