The 2024-25 NBA season continues following the NBA All-Star Break with nine games on Thursday. With options in the NBA DFS player pool such as Nikola Jokic, Devin Booker and Kawhi Leonard 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 Thursday, Feb. 20, 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 Feb. 11 (when McClure last made NBA DFS picks), McClure highlighted Suns forward/center Kevin Durant as one of his top NBA DFS picks from the NBA DFS player pool on both sites. The result: Durant had 34 points, three rebounds and three assists, returning 55.2 points on DraftKings and 59.1 points on FanDuel. Anybody who included him in their lineups could have been well on the way to a profitable day!

For Thursday, one of McClure's top NBA DFS picks is Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, who is listed at $9,700 on DraftKings and $9,900 on FanDuel. Another part of McClure's optimal NBA DFS strategy includes rostering Spurs guard De'Aaron Fox ($7,900 on DraftKings and $8,900 on FanDuel). The Spurs acquired Fox at the NBA Trade Deadline as a complementary piece with Victor Wembanyama, but beginning Thursday, Fox will be the main offensive playmaker as the 7-foot-3 center is expected to miss the remainder of the season with a blood clot in his shoulder. Fox averaged 21.6 points and 7.8 assists over his first five games in San Antonio and McClure expects that usage to drastically increase beginning on Thursday against the Suns. 

McClure is also targeting a player who could go off for massive numbers on Thursday! 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.

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