The 2024-25 NBA season continues with a seven-game slate on Monday. With options in the NBA DFS player pool such as LaMelo Ball, Kyrie Irving and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander available for NBA DFS lineups, how should daily Fantasy basketball players form an NBA DFS strategy?

Before making your NBA DFS picks on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel for Monday, March 3, 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 Friday (when McClure last made NBA DFS picks), McClure highlighted Nuggets center Nikola Jokic as one of his top NBA DFS picks from the NBA DFS player pool on both sites. The result: Jokic had 23 points, 17 rebounds and 15 assists, returning 73.8 points on DraftKings and 67.9 points on FanDuel. 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 Grizzlies guard/forward Desmond Bane, who is listed at $7,600 on DraftKings and $8,000 on FanDuel. Another part of McClure's optimal NBA DFS strategy includes rostering Hawks power forward/center Onyeka Okongwu ($6,100 on DraftKings and $7,000 on FanDuel). Okongwu had 23 points and 13 rebounds in a 135-119 win over the Thunder on Friday. He's averaging 16.8 points and 10 rebounds over his last six games. Okongwu has played at least 30 minutes in five of those six games and the 24-year-old is averaging 19.5 points and 11 rebounds over eight games this season when playing at least 30 minutes.

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!