Get ready for an action-packed Monday night in the NBA, as the seven-game main slate on DraftKings and a nine game main slate on FanDuel which offers plenty of exciting matchups and DFS opportunities to capitalize on.

This slate is brimming with opportunities for DFS players to build winning lineups. Let’s break down the top plays and strategies to dominate tonight's contests!

 

 

 

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

 

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Pre-Lock Update

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.

UPDATE - 6:20pm ET

  • Bradley Beal - OUT
  • Klay Thompson - OUT
  • Naji Marshall - OUT
  • Quentin Grimes - ACTIVE
  • Ben Simmons - OUT
  • Cam Johnson - OUT

NBA Injuries, News & Updates Today, 1/22

 

 

 

NBA DFS Slate & Game Overviews

We've got a lot of games with either lower game totals or spreads suggesting blowout for tonight's matchups. That said we do have a handful of games where we are expecting close, competitive and high scoring which is where the majority of the ownership tonight is going when building out our DFS lineups and those games are below.

Detroit Pistons vs Atlanta Hawks

  • Total: 234.5
  • Spread: ATL -3

Minnesota Timberwolves vs Dallas Mavericks

  • Total: 214.5
  • Spread: MIN -3.5

Cleveland Cavaliers vs Houston Rockets

  • Total: 228
  • Spread: CLE -2

Charlotte Hornets vs Memphis Grizzlies

  • Total: 240
  • Spread: MEM -12

Utah Jazz vs Oklahoma City Thunder

  • Total: 231.5
  • Spread: OKC -16.5

 

 

 

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.

 

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Value

 

 

 

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