NBA DFS Core Plays LIVE: Saturday, February 25th
Andy Means (meansy53), a former Duke basketball walk-on, will be bringing Premium subscribers his top NBA DFS plays to build around on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Everyone’s favorite, Notorious, will be guiding you on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And on weekends, the GPP maestro you all know and love, STLCards, takes the reins.
GENERAL SLATE THOUGHTS
11:00 AM ET: A great team is one that picks each other up and makes each other better. Justin aka STLCards had to travel today, so I’m coming off the bench to make the spot start. I have another kids birthday party to attend this afternoon, but will do my best to keep everything up to date through lock. Speaking of birthday parties, do these ever stop? Every other week I have to go buy a toy for some kid I don’t know. I guess that’s the cycle of life. In my early and mid-20s, it was nothing but weddings every other weekend. Fast forward 10 years and now it’s birthday parties. I’m not sure which is better to be honest.
Where were we again? Ah, basketball. We have seven games on the schedule today, but only six of them are featured on the main slate. The first game starts at 12:00 PM ET and is only featured for showdown. We still have projections and potentially a game break down in the Grind Down if you are interested. For our purposes, let’s focus on the 12 teams that are playing on the main slate — three of which are playing in the second half of a back-to-back (Heat, Hornets, and Knicks).
Here’s a quick look at all of the injuries for tonight’s slate, and while you get your coffee and hopefully something good for breakfast, I’ll start working on the team-by-team previews.
Out
Kyle Lowry
Nikola Jovic
Cody Martin
Zion Williamson
Aaron Gordon
Zeke Nnaji
Steven Adams
Devin Vassell
Isaiah Roby
Romeo Langford
Khem Birch
Collin Sexton
Questionable
Dyson Daniels
Evan Fournier
Tre Jones
Kelly Olynyk
Rudy Gay
By NBA standards, this isn’t bad at all. There are only five players listed as questionable on the slate and only two of them (Jones & Olynyk) are big parts of the rotation. By saying this, I am certainly jinxing everything and we’ll get a bunch of late scratches, but for now this looks like a straightforward slate for injuries.
NOTE: The closer we get to the slate locking, the less likely it is that I will have the necessary time to update the tables below. For the most up-to-date information, make sure you are watching Crunch Time and monitoring LineupHQ for my Core Play tags and our Premium NBA Projections.