The 2024-25 NBA season continues with a five-game slate on Thursday. With options in the NBA DFS player pool such as Stephen Curry, Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic available as NBA DFS picks, how should daily Fantasy basketball players form an NBA DFS strategy?

Before setting your NBA DFS lineups on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel for Thursday, Feb. 27, 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 Tuesday, McClure highlighted Suns guard/forward Bradley Beal as one of his top NBA DFS picks from the NBA DFS player pool on both sites. The result: Beal had 24 points, five rebounds, 11 assists, two steals and a block, returning 55.2 points on DraftKings and 53.5 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 Mavericks guard/forward Klay Thompson, who is listed at $5,400 on both DraftKings and FanDuel. Another part of McClure's optimal NBA DFS strategy includes rostering Nuggets point guard Russell Westbrook ($5,400 on DraftKings and $6,900 on FanDuel). Westbrook is averaging 12.8 points, 5.0 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game as the nine-time All-Star remains a viable piece for Denver. The Nuggets play the Bucks in the game with the highest over/under at 240.5 points, according to the latest NBA odds from the SportsLine consensus, of Thursday's five games and McClure expects Westbrook to benefit from a higher-scoring contest;

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.

What are the top NBA DFS picks for Thursday? 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!