NBA DFS Core Plays LIVE: Thursday, February 9th
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
10:30 AM ET: Happy Thursday everyone! If you weren’t paying attention yesterday, you might have missed some of the big trades that went down in the association. Let’s recap those before getting into tonight’s slate.
Brooklyn/Phoenix
- Nets receive Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, Jae Crowder, four first round picks, and one pick swap
- Suns receive Kevin Durant, T.J. Warren
San Antonio/Toronto
- Spurs receive Khem Birch, one first round pick, and two second round picks
- Raptors receive Jakob Poeltl
New York/Portland
- Knicks receive Josh Hart
- Blazers receive Cam Reddish, Svi Mykhailiuk, and one first round pick
Los Angeles/Utah/Minnesota
- Lakers receive D’Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley, and Jarred Vanderbilt
- Jazz receive Russell Westbrook, Juan Toscano-Anderson, Damian Jones, and one first round pick
- Wolves receive Mike Conley, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, and three second round picks
This all happened after the Kyrie Irving trade. The trade deadline is today at 3:00 PM ET, so we may or may not have some trades to cover throughout the day.
Now, let’s dive into tonight’s slate. There are only four games on the schedule and none of the eight teams are playing in the second half of a back-to-back. I’ll go through the team previews here in a bit, but let’s quickly take a look at the injury landscape for the slate.
Out
Mo Bamba
Chuma Okeke
Devin Booker
Cam Payne
Landry Shamet
Seth Curry
Serge Ibaka
Joe Ingles
Bobby Portis
Doubtful
Zeke Nnaji
T.J. Warren
Mikal Bridges
Jae Crowder
Cam Johnson
Malik Beasley
D’Angelo Russell
Jarred Vanderbilt
Questionable
Jamal Murray
Gary Harris
Day’Ron Sharpe
Yuta Watanabe
DeMar DeRozan
LeBron James
It’s pretty clear that we have a lot to monitor leading up to lock tonight.
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.