Yahoo Sports is giving fans another way to play fantasy basketball with Perfect 5, a free-to-play game featuring each week’s NBA on Prime doubleheader. The rules are simple: pick five players, stay within a $15 budget and rack up fantasy points through scoring, rebounds, assists, defensive stats and 3s.
Curry’s injury reshuffles the board; here’s the $15 stack targeting top-1% returns.
Friday’s slate features the Knicks at Pacers (7 p.m. ET) and Warriors at Spurs (9:30 p.m. ET). The big news came Thursday afternoon: Stephen Curry left the Warriors’ 115-108 loss to the Rockets in the first quarter with what turned out to be an oblique tear, and ESPN’s Shams Charania reported he’s expected to miss closer to a month. That knocks out one of the most valuable $5 options on the board and reshuffles the Golden State usage tree, which is exactly where I’m hunting value.
Using Yahoo projections and the latest injury news, I ran 20,000 simulations of the slate across all 542,277 legal $15 lineups. I’m paying up for Victor Wembanyama and stacking the Warriors’ backcourt vacuum around him. Here’s my lineup:
Source: Yahoo Sports
