The 2025 NBA Trade Deadline isn’t until Thursday, but there has already been plenty of movement over the past week. Wednesday morning featured another blockbuster trade of a three-time All-Star when the Bucks and Wizards agreed on a deal highlighted by Kyle Kuzma joining Milwaukee and Khris Middleton going to Washington. Both the Bucks and Wizards are in action on Wednesday and will have shorter benches and fewer options in the NBA DFS player pool, outside of names like Giannis Antetokounmpo, Damian Lillard and Jordan Poole, so how should this affect forming a Wednesday NBA DFS strategy?
Kuzma was second in Washington in scoring and Bilal Coulibaly, who had 26 points for Washington on Monday, could emerge again as an under-the-radar option for NBA DFS lineups. De’Aaron Fox is available for the Spurs as is Zach LaVine for the Kings for their team debuts and options for daily Fantasy basketball players to consider. Before making any NBA DFS picks, 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 more than $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 on sites like DraftKings and FanDuel and create optimal lineups that he shares only over at SportsLine. They’re a must-see for any NBA DFS player.
On Monday (when McClure last made NBA DFS picks), McClure highlighted Nuggets center Nikola Jokic as one of his top NBA DFS picks from the NBA DFS player pool on both sites. The result: Jokic had 27 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists, two blocks and a steal, returning 70 points on DraftKings and 66.8 points on FanDuel. Anybody who included him in their lineups could have been well on the way to a profitable day.