The 2022 NBA Finals features two teams that rely heavily on the play of their stars, but if it were as simple as picking all of them for NBA DFS lineups, there wouldn't be much separating daily Fantasy basketball players on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel. Balancing your roster to include the right high-end players with others that will play above expectation is the key to success, and Golden State's Andrew Wiggins has arguably been the steadiest among the second tier of players in the series. Through the first three games of the NBA Finals, Wiggins has averaged 16.3 points and six rebounds.
With Stephen Curry nursing a sore leg after Game 3, and fluctuating production from others like Klay Thompson and Jordan Poole, Wiggins provides a high floor in the NBA DFS player pool. In Game 3, he finished with 18 points, seven rebounds, two steals and two blocks. Before you make your NBA DFS picks for Celtics vs. Warriors Game 4, be sure to check out the NBA DFS advice, player rankings, stacks and top daily Fantasy basketball picks from SportsLine's Mike McClure.
McClure is a DFS professional with nearly $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 over at SportsLine. They're a must-see for any NBA DFS player.
On Wednesday, McClure highlighted Celtics star Jayson Tatum as one of his top NBA DFS picks for Game 3 on both DraftKings and FanDuel. The result: Tatum scored 26 points, picked out nine assists, and grabbed six rebounds to return 49.5 points on DraftKings and 47.7 points on FanDuel. Anybody that included him in their lineups was well on the way to a profitable day.
Now, McClure has turned his attention to the Warriors vs. Celtics Game 4 and locked in his top daily Fantasy basketball picks. You can only see them by heading to SportsLine.
Top NBA DFS picks for Friday, June 10
For Game 4, Tatum is one of McClure's top NBA DFS picks again. For the series, Tatum has averaged 22 points, 8.3 assists, 5.7 rebounds, and has made 43.5 percent of his three-point attempts. In 12 career Game 4 starts across all playoff series, Tatum has averaged 25.3 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.8 assists.
Even though Boston struggled in Game 2, Tatum led his team with 28 points and commanded an offensive usage rate of 35.2 percent. In Game 3, he finished one point behind teammate Jaylen Brown as the top Celtics scorer, but had the highest offensive usage rate again, at 28.8 percent. While Tatum is a clear scoring threat for Boston, he has the highest assist rate among all players on his team with more than 40 minutes played in the Finals, at 31.3 percent.
Another part of McClure's optimal NBA DFS strategy includes rostering Warriors forward Draymond Green. At this point, daily Fantasy basketball players don't look for big offensive numbers from Green, but he is capable of producing on a higher level than he has through the first three games of the series. With the Warriors on the brink of losing too much ground in the Finals, Green should be among those players that take a few more chances, as he has averaged 36 minutes per game.
In Green's career Game 4 Finals starts, he has averaged 12.2 points, nine rebounds, seven assists and two blocks. Green has taken just seven total shots from the field over the last two games, but in the Western Conference Finals against Dallas, he averaged 7.4 per game, and scored 10.6 points. The Warriors need him to be among those that step up in Game 4, and that should translate to greater Fantasy production on Friday night.
How to set your NBA DFS lineups for Friday, June 10
McClure is also targeting a player who could go off for massive numbers on Friday because of a dream matchup. This pick could be the difference between winning your tournaments and cash games or going home with nothing. You can only see who it is here.
So who is DFS pro Mike McClure putting in his optimal NBA DFS lineups for Friday? Visit SportsLine now to see optimal NBA DFS picks, rankings, advice, and stacks, all from a professional DFS player who has almost $2 million in career winnings, and find out.
