Core Plays LIVE: NBA DFS Picks for Tuesday, February 4th

by Derek Farnsworth (Notorious) Last Updated 2025-02-04 23:39:37 Premium Content Part of the product NBA DFS

A daily fantasy sports OG, Notorious has been roaming the DFS streets ever since they were invented. He has racked up multiple live final seats and several six-figure tournament wins in his DFS career and has long been one of the top NBA DFS minds in the industry. On weekends, Taylor Smith takes the reins. Their Core Plays LIVE article will zoom out on the slate as a whole, zoom in on the best NBA DFS picks, and constantly update as news breaks. Whether you are diving into the slate 5 hours before it starts or 5 minutes before it starts, Core Plays LIVE has everything you need for your DraftKings and FanDuel lineups.

Happy Tuesday!

I did not have a great slate last night. The more I have going on in my personal life, the more I hate seeing injury news after lock. Bad slates will happen, so I will pick myself up and move on to tonight’s slate. There are 7 games on the schedule, and all 7 are featured on the FanDuel and DraftKings main slates. We have 4 teams playing on the second half of a back-to-back (Rockets, Knicks, Pacers, Blazers) and 5 teams playing on the front half of a back-to-back (Sixers, Cavaliers, Nets, Raptors, Heat, Bulls).

This is one of my favorite weeks of the year—we have the WM Phoenix Open and the Super Bowl. For those who aren’t regular viewers of the PGA TOUR, this is the event in Scottsdale where the crowd is encouraged to get a little raucous. It’s the one event each year that reminds me of the crowds on Happy Gilmore. It’s a fun event to watch and sweat, so check out all of our PGA DFS content this week. And for the Super Bowl, we’ll have the Expert Survey and the Grind Down.

Let’s dive into tonight’s 7-gamer.

NBA DFS Picks: Core Plays LIVE for Tuesday, February 4th

• 7-game main slate
  - 7:00 PM ET – Dallas Mavericks at Philadelphia 76ers
  - 7:30 PM ET – Boston Celtics at Cleveland Cavaliers
  - 7:30 PM ET – Houston Rockets at Brooklyn Nets
  - 7:30 PM ET – New York Knicks at Toronto Raptors
  - 8:00 PM ET – Miami Heat at Chicago Bulls
  - 10:00 PM ET – Los Angeles Lakers at Los Angeles Clippers
  - 10:00 PM ET – Indiana Pacers at Portland Trail Blazers
• Front end of a back-to-back: Sixers, Cavaliers, Nets, Raptors, Heat, Bulls
• Back end of a back-to-back: Rockets, Knicks, Pacers, Blazers
• 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

2:00 PM ET – We have a couple of updates.

Alperen Sengun is expected to play for the Rockets, while Tari Eason has been ruled out.

OG Anunoby has been ruled out for the Knicks.

Team Previews

Dallas Mavericks (at PHI)

We kick off the slate with the Mavericks, who just traded away their 25-year-old superstar. Why? Nobody can figure it out (even Anthony Edwards thinks there must have been something else going on). Anthony Davis will not make his Mavericks’ debut tonight. Dereck Lively, PJ Washington, and Dwight Powell have also been ruled out against the Sixers, who are a slightly favorable matchup on paper. While I wouldn’t call them core plays, we can certainly look to Kyrie Irving and Daniel Gafford in tournaments. Irving should dominate usage, while Gafford has scored at least 40 fantasy points in 6 of his last 7 games.

Philadelphia 76ers (vs. DAL)

The Sixers have ruled out Paul George and have listed the following players as questionable: Joel Embiid, Andre Drummond, Eric Gordon, Caleb Martin, and KJ Martin. They draw a mediocre matchup at home against the Mavericks and have a team total that is 4 points higher than their season average. We have no choice but to take a wait-and-see approach with the Sixers with so many questionable players.

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