The 2024-25 NBA season continues with a five-game slate on Thursday. With options in the NBA DFS player pool such as Scottie Barnes, Zach LaVine and Jimmy Butler 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, March 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 Tuesday (when McClure last made NBA DFS picks), McClure highlighted Hawks point guard Trae Young as one of his top NBA DFS picks from the NBA DFS player pool on both sites. The result: Young had 31 points, two rebounds, eight assists and three steals, returning 52 points on DraftKings and 50.4 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 both DraftKings and FanDuel. Another part of McClure's optimal NBA DFS strategy includes rostering Bucks forward Kyle Kuzma (5,400 on DraftKings and $5,500 on FanDuel). Kuzma is averaging 13.7 points and 6.4 rebounds over 19 games with the Bucks since being traded from the Wizards. Bobby Portis (suspension) is out, which should mean an even larger role for Kuzma against the Lakers, who are playing the second half of a back-to-back.

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!