The opening week of the 2024-25 NBA season continues with a 10-game slate on Friday. With stars like LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Giannis Antetokounmpo in the Friday NBA DFS player pool, who should daily Fantasy basketball players include in NBA DFS picks? 

Before setting your NBA DFS lineups on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel for Friday, October 25, you NEED to see what Mike McClure has to say.

McClure is a DFS professional with over $2 million in career winnings. He's also a predictive data engineer at SportsLine who uses a powerful prediction model that simulates every minute of every game 10,000 times, taking factors like matchups, statistical trends and injuries into account.

This allows him to find the best NBA DFS values and create optimal lineups that he shares only over at SportsLine. They're a must-see for any NBA DFS player. 

On Thursday, McClure highlighted Celtics forward Jayson Tatum as one of his top picks in his NBA DFS player pool on both sites. The result: Tatum had 25 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, returning 52.2 points on DraftKings and 49.2 points on FanDuel. Anybody who included him in their lineups was well on the way to a profitable day. 

For Friday, one of McClure's top NBA DFS picks is rostering Lakers forward LeBron James, who is listed at $8,900 on DraftKings and $9,600 on FanDuel. Another part of McClure's optimal NBA DFS strategy includes rostering New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns ($8,000 on DraftKings and $7,700 on FanDuel). Towns had just 12 points, seven rebounds and three assists in his debut with the Knicks on Tuesday, but he played only 24 minutes due to the game quickly becoming a one-sided loss to the Celtics. The Knicks play their home opener on Friday and you can be sure they'll want to show off their key offseason acquisition in front of their fans at Madison Square Garden as Towns, a New Jersey native, returns to the Northeast.

McClure is also targeting a player who could go off for MASSIVE numbers on Friday! This pick could be the difference between winning your tournaments and cash games or going home with nothing! You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before locking in any lineups.

What are the top NBA DFS picks for Friday? And which player is a MUST-ROSTER? ... Join SportsLine now to see DFS pro Mike McClure's top picks, stacks, and player pools for FanDuel and DraftKings, and cash in BIG on NBA DFS!