Fantasy basketball tips and NBA betting picks for Saturday

ESPN's fantasy basketball and basketball betting tips cheat sheet is your pregame destination for basketball betting predictions and our best intel and data, featuring ESPN's proprietary Basketball Power Index (BPI) to help you make smart fantasy and wagering decisions. NBA game odds for Saturday, March 11 are provided by Caesars Sportsbook, and fantasy advice is based on ESPN 10-team leagues.

Sometimes NBA slates are defined by who isn't playing. This rings especially true deep into the season, as we find star creators like Luka Doncic, Ja Morant, and Jalen Brunson due to sit for their respective teams on Saturday.

Such scenarios often lead to intriguing values, such as New York's Immanuel Quickley (70% available in ESPN leagues) becoming a must-start option, as Eric Moody details below.

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For Dallas, a mercurial Christian Wood becomes easier to bank on given the Mavericks will need his scoring and rebounding production to surface in a tough matchup with the Memphis Grizzlies. For Memphis, meanwhile, Tyus Jones remains an awesome addition to fantasy rosters given his critical creation role for a team suddenly light on playmaking. Memphis big man Xavier Tillman (90% available) is in a strong spot to deliver on rebounding props and even at rewarding odds for double-double outcomes. The list goes on.

It's never fun to have your best players sidelined as the fantasy playoffs loom, but it is also undeniably rewarding to figure out such conundrums.

— Jim McCormick

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