The 2024-25 NBA season continues with a 10-game slate on Monday. With options in the NBA DFS player pool such as Karl-Anthony Town, Cade Cunningham and Kevin Durant available as NBA DFS picks, how should daily Fantasy basketball players form an NBA DFS strategy?

Before filling out your NBA DFS lineups on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel for Monday, March 17, 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 at SportsLine. They're a must-see for any NBA DFS player. 

On Wednesday (when McClure last made NBA DFS picks), McClure highlighted Raptors guard A.J. Lawson as an under-the-radar play as one of his top NBA DFS picks from the NBA DFS player pool on both sites. The result: Lawson had 28 points, six rebounds and four assists, returning 42 points on DraftKings and 38.2 points on FanDuel to return huge value to NBA DFS lineups. Anybody who included him in their lineups could have been well on the way to a profitable day!

For Monday, one of McClure's top NBA DFS picks is Blazers forward Deni Avdija, who is listed at $7,100 on DraftKings and $7,800 on FanDuel. Another part of McClure's optimal NBA DFS strategy includes rostering Pacers power forward/center Obi Toppin. The 27-year-old will likely play an expanded role with Pascal Siakam (personal) out and the Pacers could be without other integral starters with questionable tags to Tyrese Haliburton (back) and Myles Turner (hip). Whether they play or not, Toppin will likely be asked to do more with them less than 100% and the No. 8 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft is averaging 22 points and 6.8 rebounds in four games when playing at least 30 minutes this season. 

McClure is also targeting a player who could go off for massive numbers on Monday! 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 Monday? 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!