NBA Finals Playoff Primer: Cavaliers/Warriors (Game 4)

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Game 4 (Cleveland at Golden State)

Kevin Durant dominated Game 3 and the Warriors prevailed to take a 3-0 lead. They are favored to end things tonight as moderate road favorites. I think the game stays close so my primary focus is going to be on the starters who should lock in an easy 30+ minutes with some getting to the 40 (or more) mark. I’ll then look to the top 2-3 reserves that I project to get significant playing time to provide the value. The obvious stars are LeBron, Durant, and Curry (who should go underowned after a terrible game). Draymond Green, Kevin Love, and Klay Thompson are the upper mid range plays. Green’s price actually came down and I think he can be a difference maker tonight (as long as he doesn’t get ejected, which is always possible).

For value options, Rodney Hood leads the way after a big game 3 (I hope you all read my article where I said to go all in on him). His price didn’t change on FanDuel but it did go up to $2,200 on DraftKings. I think that’s still way too cheap for someone I project to get 20+ minutes and I’ll be locking him into the majority of my lineups tonight. JaVale McGee is also priced too cheap, but his minutes situation is way more unstable and he’s more of a flier play. If he starts, he’ll see at least 10 minutes kicking off both halves, but anything after that is up in the air as Golden State doesn’t seem to want to run him out there much more than that despite massive production when he is in.

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Aaron Hendrix (thehazyone)

Aaron Hendrix is a former professional poker player who made the transition from season long fantasy sports to DFS in October of 2014. He used to cover poker tournaments for a living until stepping into his current role at RotoGrinders. He can be found on Twitter at @aaronhendrix