NBA DFS Core Plays LIVE: Thursday, January 26th

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

10:45 AM ET: Happy Thursday everyone!

I’m sure we are all looking forward to the weekend and the Conference Championship games, but we have a few NBA slates to conquer before Sunday. The NBA schedule has been perfect the last few weeks. It seems like there are between five and 10 games every night and that’s the case again on Thursday. We have six games on the schedule with three teams playing in the second half of a back-to-back: the Nets, Rockets, and Spurs.

We’ll get to the team-by-team previews here in a little, but let’s take a look at the injury landscape for the slate:

Out

Kevin Durant
Cory Joseph
Cade Cunningham
Marcus Smart
Evan Fournier
Cody Martin
Goran Dragic
Kevin Porter
Christian Wood
Devin Booker
Cam Payne
Landry Shamet
John Wall
Romeo Langford

Questionable

Day’Ron Sharpe
Isaiah Livers
Isaiah Stewart
LaMelo Ball
Gordon Hayward
Donovan Mitchell
Luke Kennard
Marcus Morris

I’m off to take my little one to school (backpack in tow this time!). I’ll have the team previews up by 12:00 PM ET and the rankings up by 2:00 PM ET.

Let’s have a day.

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About the Author

Notorious
Derek Farnsworth (Notorious)

Derek Farnsworth (aka Notorious) is a lead RotoGrinders Expert and one of the most recognizable names and faces in all of DFS. Before joining the RotoGrinders team, Derek received a Master’s Degree from the University of Utah. When he’s not busy providing content, he’s dominating the DFS industry as evidenced by his consistent top rankings in several sports and multiple Live Final appearances. Noto provides expert NBA, NFL, MLB, and PGA analysis for RotoGrinders Premium members on a daily basis and has also been nominated for five different Fantasy Sports Writer’s Association (FSWA) awards. Follow Noto on Twitter – @RG_Notorious