ESPN's fantasy basketball daily cheat sheet is your pregame destination before you set your lineups for that night's games. Here you'll read our best advice for the night, including a selection of players you can stream as well as game-by-game injury reports.
What you need to know for Monday's games
The first round of the NBA Playoffs has entered crunch time, and it is possible that the first series ends as soon as tonight. The Minnesota Timberwolves are surprisingly one win away from upsetting the No. 3 seeded Denver Nuggets, even after losing best player Anthony Edwards (knee) and fellow starting guard Donte DiVincenzo (Achilles) to injury.
The Nuggets are huge favorites at -11.5, and they are in win-or-go-home mode, but they'll need to figure out a way to defend Ayo Dosunmu if they want to keep the series alive. And that's not a sentence I ever expected to type in this series.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder could also close out tonight, up 3-0 on the Phoenix Suns, and are double-digit favorites in Game 4 even though the game is in Phoenix. The Suns have played the Thunder tough in the last two games, keeping the games competitive enough for individual players to still produce. If they can do it again, it could be good for the prop bets market.
Meanwhile, the other top seed is playing to avoid falling into a dangerous 3-1 deficit. The Detroit Pistons have their backs against the wall after the Orlando Magic pulled out Game 3 to take the lead in the series. The Magic are hosting Game 4 and have a chance to really take a stranglehold of this series with a win tonight.
Let's dig a bit deeper and identify some betting angles and DFS players of interest for tonight's action.
Dre's Bets for Monday
Jalen Suggs OVER 14.5 points (-104): Suggs has quietly been perhaps the most consistent scorer for the Magic this postseason. Not the highest volume scorer, but the most reliable one. In three playoffs games against the Pistons so far, Suggs has averaged 16.7 PPG with between 15 and 19 points in all three games. He's shooting a high volume, averaging 15.3 FGA/game, and as long as he maintains such a large shot share he should continue to be a mid-teens or higher scorer.