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

Happy Sunday, February 8th, we have a 3-game NBA DFS main slate on DraftKings and four games on FanDuel.

It's Super Bowl Sunday so the slates are getting over and done with nice and early today as FanDuel's main slate kicks off at 12:30 pm ET while DraftKings starts at 2 pm ET. The Knicks and Celtics game is on the FanDuel slate, but not on the DraftKings main. We have stars everywhere we look despite the fact that it's only four games as Kawhi Leonard, Jaylen Brown, Anthony Edwards, Jalen Brunson, and Scottie Barnes take 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, February 8th

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Pre/Post-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.

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

• Adding RJ Barrett to player pool
• Adding Josh Hart to player pool w/ OG Anunoby ruled out. 1.06 FP/min w/o Anunoby this year.

NBA Injuries, News & Updates Today, 2/8

• Bam Adebayo - IN
• Karl-Anthony Towns - IN
• Trae Young - OUT
• Alex Sarr - IN
• Darius Garland - OUT
• Tyler Herro - OUT
• Immanuel Quickley - QUEST
• Josh Hart - IN
• OG Anunoby - OUT
• Kyshawn George - IN
• Norman Powell - IN
• Ivica Zubac - OUT
• Tre Johnson - OUT
• Aaron Nesmith - QUEST
• Sam Hauser - OUT
• Pelle Larsson - OUT
• Bennedict Mathurin - OUT
• Bilal Coulibaly - IN
• Jakob Poeltl - QUEST
• Isaiah Jackson - OUT
• Micah Potter - QUEST
• Anthony Gill - OUT
• Tristan Vukcevic - IN
• Jaden Hardy - OUT
• Jose Alvarado - 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

• Kawhi Leonard, Jaylen Brown (FD), Anthony Edwards, Scottie Barnes

Mid

• Karl-Anthony Towns (FD GPP), Julius Randle, Andrew Nembhard, Norman Powell, John Collins, Andrew Wiggins (cash), RJ Barrett, Josh Hart (FD)

Value

• Davion Mitchell, Jay Huff, Will Riley, Brook Lopez, Tristan Vukcevic (DK), Derrick Jones, Jamir Watkins, Sharife Cooper

Stacks

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