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

It's Monday, December 1st, and we have a 6-game NBA DFS main slate on DraftKings and 9 games on FanDuel.

Happy Cyber Monday! We have six games on DraftKings and nine games on FanDuel and they're both fantastic slates. We have multiple teams on back-to-backs, one game over 240 implied points and stars such as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jokic, Donovan Mitchell, and Jalen Johnson are all taking the floor.

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, December 1st

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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
• Brandon Miller & Tre Mann are both OUT
• Without them this year; Kon Knueppel; 22/6% USG, 1.12 FP/min – Collin Sexton; 25.7% USG, 1.01 FP/min – Miles Bridges; 25.7% USG. 1.07 FP/min
• Duncan Robinson is OUT & Daniss Jenkins is STARTING. I think Jenkins is in play, but I also think Caris LeVert is a very interesting pivot in GPPs

NBA Injuries, News & Updates Today, 12/1

• Nikola Jokic - PROB
• Giannis Antetokounmpo - PROB
• Anthony Davis - PROB
• LeBron James - PROB
• Alex Sarr - OUT
• Michael Porter - PROB
• Paolo Banchero - OUT
• Jalen Duren - PROB
• Trae Young - OUT
• Kristaps Porzingis - OUT
• Darius Garland - OUT
• P.J. Washington - QUEST
• Deandre Ayton - QUEST
• Jarrett Allen - OUT
• Noah Clowney - PROB
• Daniel Gafford - OUT
• Steven Adams - OUT
• Jaime Jaquez - QUEST
• Brandon Williams - QUEST
• Jalen Green - OUT
• Duncan Robinson - QUEST
• Lonzo Ball - OUT
• Ryan Dunn - PROB
• Caris LeVert - PROB
• Jalen Smith - OUT
• Terance Mann - OUT
• Tari Eason - OUT
• Bogdan Bogdanovic - OUT
• Marcus Smart - OUT
• Sam Merrill - OUT
• Dereck Lively - OUT
• Tre Mann - QUEST
• Tre Johnson - OUT
• Kevin Love - PROB
• Coby White - DOUBT (downgrade, illness)
• Gary Trent - QUEST (downgrade, thumb)
• Bruce Brown - QUEST (downgrade, illness)
• Klay Thompson - PROB (downgrade, illness)

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

• Giannis Antetokounmpo, Cade Cunningham, Jalen Johnson, James Harden, Donovan Mitchell, Luka Doncic (FD)

Mid

• Franz Wagner, Evan Mobley, Michael Porter (GPP), Kawhi Leonard, Desmond Bane, Onyeka Okongwu, Jalen Suggs, Anthony Black, Mark Williams (FD), Reed Sheppard (FD), Kon Knueppel, Miles Bridges

Value

• Noah Clowney, Tobias Harris (cash), Tre Jones, T.J. McConnell, Jaylon Tyson, Egor Demin, Marvin Bagley, Tristan Vukcevic, Collin Sexton, Craig Porter (GPP), Daniss Jenkins

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