Core Plays LIVE: NBA DFS Picks for Sunday, December 1st

by Taylor Smith (tcsmith031) Last Updated 2024-12-01 21:33:22 Premium Content Part of the product NBA DFS

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Happy Sunday! You know what’s fun? 4-day weekends. You know what sucks? The end of 4-day weekends. It’s still a little too early in the day to be getting the Sunday Scaries though, and we can be grateful for a plate full (plateful?) of DFS action today. After the NFL slates lock, we’ve got a 5-game NBA DFS slate over on DraftKings tipping off at 7 PM ET. Nothing is easy, so FanDuel tacked on an extra 3 games and will start their main slate an hour earlier at 6 ET.

There’s a lot to dive into, so let’s dive.

NBA DFS Picks: Core Plays LIVE for Sunday, December 1st

• 8-game slate
  - 6:00 PM ET – Miami Heat at Toronto Raptors
  - 6:00 PM ET – New Orleans Pelicans at New York Knicks
  - 6:00 PM ET – Boston Celtics at Cleveland Cavaliers
  - 7:00 PM ET – Oklahoma City Thunder at Houston Rockets
  - 8:00 PM ET – Los Angeles Lakers at Utah Jazz
  - 9:00 PM ET – San Antonio Spurs at Sacramento Kings
  - 9:00 PM ET – Dallas Mavericks at Portland Trail Blazers
  - 10:00 PM ET – Denver Nuggets at LA Clippers
• Front end of a back-to-back: Heat, Celtics, Pelicans, Lakers
• Back end of a back-to-back: Mavs, Jazz
• NBA DFS Optimizer
• NBA Starting Lineups
• NBA DFS Injury Report: The Situation Room
• Scroll to FanDuel and DraftKings Rankings & Core Plays

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News Updates

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Team Previews

Miami Heat (at TOR)

The Heat are 4.5-point favorites tonight in Toronto, as they play without Nikola Jovic and Josh Richardson. Terry Rozier has been benched amid a poor start, which essentially leaves Tyler Herro running point with a bit more usage flowing to Herro, Jimmy Butler, and Bam Adebayo. Toronto is poor enough defensively to make any of the 3 stars look like decent individual plays, though Adebayo stands out the most on FanDuel at $8,000. Haywood Highsmith is currently projecting for some ownership at just $3,900, but there’s a reason Highsmith is $3,900. He’s averaging a painfully low 0.66 FP/minute on the year, so that’s chalk I’m happy to fade if it holds.

Toronto Raptors (vs. MIA)

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