Core Plays LIVE: NBA DFS Picks for Sunday, April 6th

by Taylor Smith (tcsmith031) Last Updated 2025-04-06 21:00:02 Premium Content Part of the product NBA DFS

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Happy Sunday! We had a pretty fun night of hoops with the Final Four last night, and tonight, the NBA is back in action with an 8-game main slate tipping off at 6 PM ET. Plenty of teams are still battling for postseason position, while others are duking it out with lottery balls on the line.

Most of tonight’s games feature pretty competitive spreads with decent totals. In unrelated news, the Wizards are also listed as 20-point underdogs in Boston. As always, I’ll have you covered all afternoon when it comes to the latest happenings leading up to lock.

NBA DFS Picks: Core Plays LIVE for Sunday, April 6th

• 8-game main slate
  - 6:00 PM ET – Utah Jazz at Atlanta Hawks
  - 6:00 PM ET – Washington Wizards at Boston Celtics
  - 6:00 PM ET – Sacramento Kings at Cleveland Cavaliers
  - 6:00 PM ET – San Antonio Spurs at Portland Trail Blazers
  - 7:00 PM ET – Phoenix Suns at New York Knicks
  - 8:00 PM ET – Indiana Pacers at Denver Nuggets
  - 8:30 PM ET – Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors
  - 8:30 PM ET – Milwaukee Bucks at New Orleans Pelicans
• Front end of a back-to-back: Kings
• Back end of a back-to-back: Bucks, Hawks, Knicks
• NBA DFS Optimizer
• NBA Starting Lineups
• NBA Injury Report
• Scroll to FanDuel and DraftKings Rankings & Core Plays

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News Updates

I’ll update this section once news starts to trickle in.

Team Previews

Utah Jazz (at ATL)

This is the first of 4 games tipping in the early 6 PM ET window, and the tanking Jazz are 12.5-point road underdogs in Atlanta. Walker Kessler, Jordan Clarkson, Lauri Markkanen, John Collins, and Cody Williams are out, while KJ Martin is questionable for the visitors. It’s a great matchup against a woeful Hawks defense, and Utah still has a healthy team total in excess of 116 points.

UCLA legend Johnny Juzang (0.92 FP/minute) projects as the best point-per-dollar value on the Jazz side, as he’s cheap around the industry and recently supplanted Martin in the starting unit. Utah’s lineups are always subject to change, but I don’t mind Juzang as a cheapie if he starts. Isaiah Collier and Collin Sexton will start together in the backcourt, but Collier and Keyonte George will likely see most of the minutes. Collier has been in better form lately, and he’s cheaper than George on both DraftKings and FanDuel. It feels wild to be paying upwards of $7,000 for Kyle Filipowski (1.14 FP/minute), but he’s typically playing mid-30s minutes in a starting role. The final Jazzman worth a shout is Brice Sensabaugh, who generates healthy usage (23.4%) in a starting role.

Atlanta Hawks (vs. UTA)

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