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The NBA starts off the week in busy fashion with 10 games on the schedule Monday. There are some underwhelming matchups on the slate, including the Pistons hosting the Thunder. However, there are also some stellar matchups, one of which is the Bulls taking on the Nuggets. Another features the surprisingly tough Cavaliers traveling to Milwaukee to face the Bucks. The Cavaliers lost to the Jazz on Sunday, but they put up another valiant effort in the one-point defeat. Let’s dive into some… Source link

Welcome to the NBA Yahoo Cup Picks for Round 8! This is a free-to=enter, multi-round, single-entry contest with 24 rounds where the top 6,950 entries overall and top 540 entries per round share $50,000, with $10,000 to first overall and $100 to first per round. Scoring will be cumulative across all rounds. Your five lowest daily fantasy basketball scores will be dropped, and you can enter at any point, but enter today to give yourself the best chance to compete for the title. Click here to… Source link

Thursday brings a limited five-game slate in the NBA. The Suns will try to extend their 17-game winning streak in a matchup against the Pistons, although they’ll have to do it without Devin Booker (hamstring). The Knicks and Bulls will face off in New York, and a noteworthy absence in that game will be Coby White, who is out for the Bulls after testing positive for COVID-19. The other significant game on the schedule will be the Bucks, who are playing the second game of a back-to-back set,… Source link

I’ve found my groove on Yahoo recently, capitalizing on some missteps from their algorithm. Every DFS site has errors in their systems, and Yahoo tends to keep unknown guys at minimum price tags for way too long. We have a few of those here, but we also have some undervalued studs as well. With that in mind, let’s get into this Saturday slate! Guards Dejounte Murray, SAN at MIL ($33) Murray looks to be in full-on breakout mode right now. We all expected him to take a leap this year but flirting… Source link

The NBA season doesn’t get underway until October 19, but if you’re itching to draft, you can take full advantage of Yahoo’s fantasy basketball ADP. Because player values have yet to catch up with general consensus and available data, there are plenty of guys who are being highly overvalued and many more who are being slept on. In this piece, I’m going to highlight players from each of the top-10 rounds who are values or fades at current ADP. I’ll close the article… Source link

The U.S. men’s national basketball team got a reality check on the road to Olympic gold this week, losing two consecutive exhibition games against Nigeria and Australia. But for Mark Tatum, the deputy commissioner and chief operating officer of the NBA, those defeats marked a victory of sorts, in the league’s decades long quest to internationalize the game of basketball. “The world is getting better, and I think that makes basketball a much more attractive game for the world to… Source link

Maybe the Los Angeles Clippers really are cursed. They had every opportunity to win a brutally ugly Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, and when they did not fail themselves, the officials did them no favors in an 84-80 loss to the Phoenix Suns. Perhaps it is fitting that the fewest points allowed in a loss this entire NBA season dropped the Clippers into a 3-1 hole. The Clippers did all the necessary work to turn a 50-36 halftime deficit into a three-point game entering the fourth… Source link

The NBA and Wilson Sporting Goods Co. unveiled the new official game ball that will be used starting with the 2021-22 season on Thursday, ending a 37-year partnership with Spalding. The Wilson game ball, which begins its multi-year partnership with the league in advance of the 75th season, will first be used at the 2021 NBA draft combine in Chicago from June 21-27. Wilson is also the manufacturer of WNBA balls.  “Our feeling was Spalding is a company at the top of that pyramid, but Wilson… Source link

Chet Holmgren, the No. 1 high school basketball player in the country, is headed to Gonzaga. Holmgren is the highest-rated recruit Mark Few has landed in his 22 years as head coach. The 7-foot-1 center chose the Zags over Minnesota, Ohio State, Michigan, North Carolina, Memphis, Georgetown and the G League. Holmgren averaged 20.6 points, 12.6 rebounds. 5.2 blocks and 4.5 assists per game for Minnehaha Academy (Minnesota) and won three state championships during his high school career. “Mark… Source link

Gonzaga might have gone 31-1 and, but Mark Few and staff are already loaded with talent for next year. The Zags will likely lose their starting perimeter players but are gaining a five-star point guard Hunter Salis and are in good shape to land the No. 1 player in the country, . The new transfer rule has created new postseason chaos for college basketball with over 1,300 players in the transfer portal. Will bluebloods Kentucky, Duke and North Carolina bounce back next year? What about UCLA… Source link