Rise & Grind: February 19th, 2014
Welcome to the RotoGrinders cup o’morning joe. Start your day off right here with yesterday’s happenings and take a peek at the the upcoming DFS day.
Grab your first cup of coffee and catch up on the latest news!
In Case You Missed It
- LBJ Pours it On – Lebron isn’t just going to let Kevin Durant run away with the MVP race. Last night he dropped in 42 points against the Mavs and added 9 rebounds, 2 steals and 6 assistesses. Blake Griffin had a nice 35-12 night in a loss to the Spurs, who had Patty Mills (top o’ the morn’ to ya!) score 25 off the bench. Al Jefferson continues to dominate under the radar putting up a 32-12 night and adding in 7 assistesses for the Bobcats in their W over the Pistons.
- Naapstermaan Heads to the Mansion – Big time tournament player Naapstermaan (#36 Overall, #16 TPOY) snagged his entry into the Playboy Basketball Championship on StarStreet, in what is shaping up to be one of the strongest live finals in DFS history. In DraftKings Showcase action, Condia grabbed his first ticket in and cjkalt took down the other entry into the Showcase last night.
Today’s Events
- NBA Tonight – We’ve got another busy night for NBA this evening with a healthy eleven game schedule. The big game on tap tonight is San Antonio continuing their west coast swing up to Portland to take on the Blazers. An interesting DFS night as the Twolves have a tough match-up with the Pacers, there are plenty of tough match-ups for the studs this evening and quite a few games with blowout potential. The Fantasy Goodness Game of the Night™ is taking the day off.
- NBA GPPs Tonight – DraftStreet has launched some new tournaments including a weekly $22, $50,000 NBA GPP on Wednesday nights. Tonight is also DSBBC Q #25 at DS, featuring a $109 buy-in. Spots 24 and 25 are available in the DraftKings Showcase tonight at the $27 and $109 entries. The Streak for the Mansion continues tonight on StarStreet along with satellites to the PBC. The SuperSlam on FD is running at $120,000 guaranteed with $13,000 to first and a $25 entry.
On the Grinders Schedule
Articles
- #1) NBA Daily Plays – All around top Grinder STLCardinals84 gives you his favorite picks for the NBA games tonight.
- #2) NBA GrindDown – Back to the Grind! Notorious is back in action to give you the scoop on every game on tonight’s NBA schedule.
- #3) College Basketball GrindDown – Varncass gives you all the hard to find information about tonight’s games on the CBB hardwood.
- #3) Countdown to the Masters – Gibbathy gives us Part I of his three-part series on this year’s entrants into the Masters in April. Considering the massive prize pools for this year’s tournament, this is some must read info for anyone looking to get into those major tournaments.
- #4) McJester’s GPP Line-Ups – What the what???? Yes that’s right. The #3 ranked player in our TPOY, #29 Overall and frequent clobberer of GPPs everywhere, is going to give you insight into his GPP line-ups after lock each night. The ehafner series was wildly popular for NFL. This should be a great read as well.
GrindersLive
- 3:30 The Daily Fantasy Early Show – It’s the debut of the Early Show on GrindersLive, and we’re kicking it off with the debut of the Cheat! Tune in and welcome Peter “DraftCheat” Christensen and Dean “The DFS Almanac” Shavelson as they run down tonight’s games.
- 4:30 The Daily Fantasy Happy Hour – CrazyGabey releases the beard of fury as he hosts today’s show with
Dirk NowitzkiScott “Sports_25toLife” Redick.
- 5:30 Grinders Live – Peter “CSURam88” Jennings and Al “Smizzle” Zeidenfeld give you the late breaking NBA news and plays as line-ups get close to lock for the night. Fingers are crossed for a hot sauce DraftKings contest tonight!
Is there something else you’d like to see in this column? Questions or comments? Leave them below and we’d be happy to consider them. See you Tomorrow!