Sunday's five-game slate promises plenty of excitement for NBA DFS players, with four games featuring totals of 220 or higher. With high-scoring matchups likely translating to huge offensive outputs, you'll want to identify the players who present the best value before entering your NBA DFS lineups. That will help you afford more expensive, less risky options like Nuggets center Nikola Jokic or Suns guard Devin Booker. 

With FanDuel hosting a $200K NBA Shot Machine and DraftKings running a $225K Fadeaway that awards $50K to the winner, there are some difficult decisions for NBA DFS players to make. Before you enter these NBA DFS tournaments or any others for Sunday, you'll want to see the top NBA DFS picks and lineups from Mike McClure. He's a professional DFS player who has won almost $2 million in his career. 

McClure is 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 over at SportsLine. They're a must-see for any NBA DFS player.

McClure rolled through the 2018-19 NBA season, producing multiple lineups that led to huge returns for followers, including as much as 40x on FanDuel and 84x on DraftKings. He saw multiple huge cashes again early in the 2019-20 NBA season and got 2020 off to a blistering start with his optimal lineup returning at least 7x on DraftKings on three of the first five days of the year. Anybody following him has seen huge returns. 

Now, he's turned his attention to the Sunday NBA DFS slate. Head to SportsLine now to see his optimal NBA DFS picks. Here are five of the most expensive players in Sunday's NBA DFS player pool. Get pricing and projections for every player at SportsLine:

  • Trae Young ($10,200 on FanDuel, $10,300 on DraftKings)
  • Nikola Jokic ($9,800 on FanDuel, $8,800 on DraftKings)
  • Kawhi Leonard ($9,700 on FanDuel, $9,000 on DraftKings)
  • Devin Booker ($8,800 on FanDuel, $8,400 on DraftKings)
  • Kyle Lowry ($8,300 on FanDuel, $8,200 on DraftKings)

McClure's top NBA DFS picks for Sunday

For Sunday, we can tell you McClure is high on Phoenix Suns small forward Kelly Oubre Jr. ($7,000 on FanDuel, $6,700 on DraftKings). Oubre went for 22 points, nine rebounds and a block in a victory over the Magic on Friday. Oubre has now scored at least 17 points in seven straight games, with at least 26 points in three of those outings. That includes averaging 3.4 three-pointers, 8.1 rebounds and 1.7 steals in the same span.

Oubre enters Sunday averaging 18.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 1.6 assists this season, which are all single-season highs for the fifth-year pro. Oubre and the Suns face a favorable matchup Sunday against the Hornets, a team that has given up 112 or more points in three of their last four games. He's a complete steal at this price point, so lock him in for Sunday's NBA DFS slate.

Part of McClure's optimal NBA DFS strategy Sunday also includes rostering Golden State Warriors shooting guard D'Angelo Russell ($7,000 on FanDuel, $7,000 on DraftKings). Russell is set to return to the Warriors' lineup after missing six games due to a shoulder injury. The 23-year-old is averaging 23.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 6.0 assists in 31.4 minutes this season.

Russell's return to the Golden State rotation comes at an opportune time, as the Warriors take on a Grizzlies team Sunday that is 19th in the NBA defending shooting guards. Also, Russell went for 18 points, three rebounds and seven assists against Memphis on Dec. 9. 

How to set your NBA DFS lineups on Sunday

McClure is also targeting another player who has a dream matchup on Sunday. The stars are aligning for him to return 50, even 60 points on DraftKings and FanDuel. This pick could be the difference between winning your tournaments and cash games or going home with nothing.

So who is DFS pro Mike McClure putting in his optimal NBA DFS lineup for Sunday? Visit SportsLine now to see the full NBA optimal tournament and cash game lineups from a professional DFS player who has almost $2 million in career winnings, and find out.